"Mr. Luo is so generous in telling me how to improve technology, so you are not afraid of being copied by other manufacturers?" Mr. Wang asked with a smile.

"It doesn't matter whether you're afraid or not. This method will actually be discovered sooner or later!" Luo Fan explained.

To put it bluntly, the technology used by Daily Toutiao and the route taken are all the same as those of Today's Toutiao.

In a sense, Toutiao was released ahead of schedule, which will definitely have a great impact on many people.

But whether these people can keenly discover the differences in daily headlines and take advantage of them depends on their own vision.

Mr. Wang of Meituan is obviously such a capable person. Others will only be curious when they find the anomalies in the daily headlines.

But he has already asked people to start research. Even if Luo Fan doesn't say anything, I believe it won't take long for Meituan to get the results.

Rather than hiding it, it is better to be generous and be a favor. After all, as Mr. Wang of Meituan said, Xingyuan has shares in Meituan, and the rise of Meituan will also be good for Xingyuan.

Moreover, some of Xingyuan's subsequent developments will also require Meituan's help, such as movie theater ticket purchase. Helping Meituan win the group buying market is also helping Xingyuan itself.

When it comes to the group buying model, Mr. Wang is definitely a genius. Although the founder of the group buying model is Groupon in the United States, Mr. Wang is the one who has studied the group buying model the most.

Luo Fan generously pointed the direction for Mr. Wang. Mr. Wang wanted to reciprocate and said with a smile: "Mr. Luo, I heard that Daily Toutiao has encountered a little trouble recently? I know a few powerful lawyers who can introduce them to you."

"No need, it's just some copyright issues, we have resolved them privately," Luo Fan said.

"Mr. Luo, don't take the copyright issue lightly! Especially if you are a portal and news website.

Portal websites have been using other people's content since their emergence. A lot of this kind of thing happened ten years ago. You may not know it because of your age. At that time, a large number of local news filed lawsuits against portal websites such as Sina and NetEase.

Although generally there is no use in suing, because the scale of the portal is getting bigger and bigger, and in the end, as long as you pay a sum of money, the problem will be solved.

But this will be a big blow to the reputation and image of the website, and it may shake the foundation." Mr. Wang reminded.

"Don't worry, Mr. Wang! Our boss actually has a solution already.

Even if this incident hadn't happened, he would still have planned to find an opportunity to resolve the copyright issue," said Cao Shuai on the side.

"Oh? Really? Mr. Luo, I can take the liberty to ask how you want to solve this matter?"

“Whatever I’m afraid of, it’s not something that can’t be said! I plan to follow the example of Sina and foreign popular YouTube, and set up a personal account to allow content creators to share profits through the browser.

As Mr. Wang said, you can indeed win by forcing things like copyright, but in fact this model is the most unsuccessful. In business, cooperation is a win-win situation.

The portals of ten years ago wanted to be exclusive in terms of content and were unwilling to share it, but in the end they actually killed themselves because piracy infringed on the profit margins of content creators.

No one wants to create new content. It would be strange if the content industry does not die.

I think if Daily Toutiao wants to be successful, our unique algorithm technology, reasonable advertising placement, and content creators constantly producing interesting things are indispensable.

We pay dividends to these content creators who have provided excellent content, and then share the profit share. This is the healthiest way to operate."

After listening to Luo Fan's words, Mr. Wang was very surprised. This young man's success was definitely no accident. He was too calm and would not give up the company's long-term plan just because of temporary gains.

The special algorithm he just mentioned is to serve users, reasonable advertising is to increase its own profits, and the final dividend payment to content creators is to enhance the vitality of the platform. The combination of the three has created the popularity of Daily Toutiao.

Thinking of this, Mr. Wang said with some envy: "If Mr. Luo can really solve this problem, the future of Daily Toutiao will be limitless. I wonder when Daily Toutiao will open the accounts of content creators?"

"It should be this month." Luo Fan replied.

Mr. Wang smiled and said: "Okay, then I have to prepare in advance, and then Mr. Luo will help out."

"That's a great relationship! I warmly welcome Mr. Wang to come and join us."

...

Luo Fan and Mr. Wang were chatting happily, and at the same time, at the Penguin headquarters in Shen City, Penguin's senior executives were looking at a report.

This report is about Star Chat. As of October 17, 2011, the number of registered users of Star Chat has exceeded 200 million, and the number of daily active users has reached 100 million.

The scale of this data in the social field is already the second largest social tool after QQ.

At present, QQ has almost monopolized the PC and mobile terminals, with more than 900 million registered users nationwide and more than 400 million daily users.

But the competitor of Star Chat is not QQ, because netizens can have two social software on their mobile phones.

Moreover, Xingchao currently focuses on business social networking, focusing on the white-collar market. Penguin has always been blank in this part of the market, so it can be said to have avoided Penguin's edge.

Originally, Penguin thought that Star Chat had already given in, and they only needed to go all out to launch wx, and they would quickly seize the market again.

However, something unexpected happened for Penguin. Penguin’s executives discovered that whether it was internal traffic flow within the group or various other advertisements, they had little impact on Star Chat users.

Except for opening it every day when commuting to and from get off work, most white-collar workers will still choose to use Star Chat as long as it is working time. On the contrary, wx has become a chat tool in leisure time like QQ.

Relying on QQ's traffic, wx's daily downloads have indeed surpassed Star Chat, but its daily user activity is far behind. This false download volume is meaningless at all.

This situation shows that Star Chat has established a firm foothold in the social field of strangers.

This conclusion shocked Penguin internally. The foundation of Penguin is social interaction with acquaintances, while its competitors have gone the other way and controlled the field of social interaction with strangers. Although the latter is not as large and sticky as the former, it is like a thorn in the ground.

The core territory of penguins.

What worries Penguin even more is that now Star Chat is indeed developing business social networking honestly, but will they start to shift from business social networking to normal social networking in the future?

With Zim’s current basic base, it is not impossible to further develop. Once they start to expand, wx’s living space will immediately be compressed, or even driven out of the market completely.

Thinking of this, Penguin's senior executives all feel tremendous pressure. They must not allow StarChat to expand like this. How can they allow others to snore next to the bed?
Chapter completed!