My Fintech Empire

Fang Hong came to the lobby of the press conference, and the girl at the front desk who brought him said with a smile, "Mr. Fang, if you need anything, just call the front desk and call me."

After chatting for a few words, the girl at the front desk left. Fang Hong randomly found an empty seat and sat down. Looking around the press conference, there were about a thousand people, most of them were people from the media industry and engaged in IT and Internet. Circle of industry insiders.

Today's quantum jump, Xu Jingren can be regarded as the number one man in the domestic Internet circle, and the cards are well established.

At this moment, there are still scattered people and participants entering the scene, and the press conference will start in a few minutes. Fang Hong is sitting in the seating area by himself, and no one pays attention to him, which is good.

At this moment, he took out a mobile phone from his pocket. This is a Blackberry mobile phone, which was obtained by the beautiful assistant for him in the past few days.

Before the press conference started, Fang Hong lowered his head and was operating on his BlackBerry mobile phone. There is an application called BlackBerry Messenger on the BlackBerry platform. This application existed in 2009. Exchange of instant messages such as emoticons, including sharing pictures, music, videos and other files.

However, the use of BlackBerry Messenger requires an expensive BIS or BES service, which makes the application only available on the BlackBerry platform, Xingyu Technology's TOS, Apple's iOS, Google's Android, and Microsoft's Windows Phone and other platforms None are supported.

Social applications that cannot be cross-platform are destined to be niche. BlackBerry Messenger seized the opportunity, but missed the opportunity.

Fang Hong put the BlackBerry back into his pocket, thinking to himself, "No surprises, Kik should be launched this month..."

In the original historical trajectory, with the strengthening of the demand for diversified instant messaging, BlackBerry Messenger can no longer meet the needs of users. Kik came into being and was launched in October 2010. It was launched by Ted, a student at the University of Waterloo. Co-founded by Livingston and his classmates.

In Fang Hong’s previous life, Kik was the originator of mobile instant messaging. After Kik, there were WhatsApp, Line and WeChat. When it was launched, it brought an innovation: scanning mobile phone contacts.

In 2010, when smartphones were far from fully popular, Kik had more than 1 million registered users in just 15 days of its launch in North America. Its popularity can be described as hot. However, the Kik software only became popular in North America in the end, and failed to develop into a world-class instant messaging overlord.

Today is October 1st, and Fang Hong has not seen any news about Kik. He can be very sure that WeChat under Quantum Beat will be earlier than Kik. Quantum Beat's WeChat not only has such an innovative function, but it is not limited to this innovative function.

As for BlackBerry Messenger, it cannot be cross-platform, and it is not the originator of mobile instant messaging. Like Fetion in China, Fang Hong didn't care at all.

Kik was not much different from BlackBerry Messenger at the beginning of its launch. The only difference is that Kik supports cross-platform, and its launch ushered in an explosive growth of users. The reason is very simple, that is, every time a user After the user installs Kik, it will automatically search the address book to remind those contacts that Kik has been installed, so there is unprecedented growth, reaching a terrifying growth rate of one million users within 15 days of its release.

Such a growth rate will be a good result even after many years, not to mention that smartphones are far from being fully popular in 2010.

However, Fang Hong is more confident in the WeChat that Quantum Beat will launch today, because WeChat also has the function of scanning mobile phone contacts, and the subsidiary of the WeChat project, China Unicom is its major shareholder, and has already negotiated a cooperation with China Unicom .

Now that WeChat is released, with so many advantages superimposed, if the growth rate cannot exceed the previous Kik, in the eyes of Fang Hong, it will fall short of expectations or even fail.

But at this moment, when Fang Hong was thinking, he noticed that the press conference, which was filled with noisy discussions, gradually quieted down, and immediately looked up at the stage of the press conference.

The press conference officially started. A young man walked calmly and slowly towards the middle of the stage. It was Xu Jingren.

Fang Hong put away his thoughts, folded his hands in front of him, and looked at the stage with great interest.

At this time, Xu Jingren on the stage looked around the auditorium area, scanning from left to right, his eyes suddenly pulled back, and locked on one of the positions, where Fang Hong was sitting.

The two looked at each other for a brief moment, and both smiled knowingly. Xu Jingren looked away again, and his voice resounded throughout the audience: "Good morning, everyone. It's a great honor for you to come to Quantum Beat's new product launch conference."

After a brief opening, Xu Jingren spoke again: "Before showing the new products, I would like to share some achievements of our Weibo. In October 2008, our Weibo products were officially launched. Weibo has spent nearly two years. Over time, it has developed into an important Internet application used by half of domestic Internet users."

This year, the number of domestic Internet users has reached 450 million, surpassing North America to become the world's largest Internet user market, and the number of Weibo user registrations exceeded 200 million a few months ago.

Xu Jingren went on to say: "Among the current domestic mainstream microblog products, Quandong Weibo has the highest usage rate, with more than 60% of users having used our microblog; among the current mainstream microblog products, more than 60% % of Weibo followers have heard of Quantity Weibo, which is the most well-known mainstream Weibo product in the domestic market, and it is also the most popular product.”

Xu Jingren on the stage smiled confidently and said: "With the continuous and rapid growth of the number of domestic netizens, the usage rate and attention of Quandong Weibo will continue to increase geometrically, and a complementary and benign relationship has been formed between the two. cycle."

At this moment, the press conference of Quantum Beat is also being broadcast live on the Internet simultaneously, and the online streaming video website Yixing Video, which is next door, also pushes the live broadcast on the homepage. Because of Fang Hong, the advent of WeChat can be said to be a "galaxy" company As long as they can assist WeChat, they will give resources to them.

Not only Yixing Video, Qin Feng's Xingyu Technology will also provide assistance. Its big-selling S1 smartphones will be pre-installed with the WeChat app when they leave the factory.

"...The development of Weibo is certainly gratifying, and the team is proud of what it has achieved so far, but our team is not satisfied with the status quo, so we have this new product!" When Xu Jingren on the stage said this, he pressed the button He moved the small remote control in his palm.

A chat icon popped up on the big screen behind him, with two words written underneath: Wechat!

WeChat?

After Quantum Jump is Weibo, the new application released is called WeChat?

All the attendees turned their eyes to the icons on the screen. At this time, Xiao Ma was also paying attention to the press conference. He did not come to the scene but was watching the live broadcast.

When Brother Xiao Ma saw that icon, he inexplicably felt a sense of alertness and something bad, because judging from the chat icon, it was likely to be an instant messaging social application.

On the stage, Xu Jingren said confidently and calmly: "Quantum Jump started at the intersection of the PC era and the mobile Internet era, but we believe that it will flourish in the mobile Internet, so Quantum Jump brought WeChat to fully All in Stud Mobile Internet , this is an instant messaging social software that focuses on the mobile Internet era."

When Xu Jingren uttered the last sentence, the participants present, especially those in the industry, couldn't help being stunned.

Good guy!

This is the rhythm of challenging Goose Factory, the current overlord in the domestic social field. After being surprised, many people in the industry present looked suspiciously at Xu Jingren on the stage.

Courage is commendable, but as the largest monopoly in the domestic instant messaging field, Goose Factory, which has nearly 800 million QQ registered users and nearly 200 million QQ simultaneous online users, is so easily shaken?

However, although Xiao Ma, who was secretly watching the press conference, had already guessed it, he was still very upset to hear Xu Jingren say it himself.

Because the goose factory is already in a state of desperation, the 3Q war is now in full swing, and it is becoming more and more intense. At this moment, there is another young boy who is doing things, and will directly threaten the core hinterland of the penguin empire - the social field .

At this time, the leader in red should have secretly praised Xu Jingren. No matter who it is, no matter whether it has any effect or not, as long as you use a knife to bucket penguins, it is a good job, and you must give it a thumbs up.

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