Chapter 867 123 Comes Back on His Own Initiative

Zhang Qianyang has been very annoyed recently. When Qiu Bosong of 361 wanted to acquire 123, he was very happy to sell it at 15 million.

After all, someone had approached him before and offered him a price for 123 browser that was never higher than 10 million. And 361 is coming with great momentum and backed by the giant Dongxu Technology.

Unless he continues to raise funds or find a more reliable backer, the browser market share will definitely be squeezed out by 361. Therefore, it is better to sell 123 browser to 361 than to let it rot in his hands. It is too good to make a net profit of more than 12 million in just one or two years of hard work.

But just when he and Qiu Bosong of 361 were almost done, Baidu intervened. Originally, he didn't want to pay attention to the other party. After all, 361 offered a very sincere price of 15 million.

But in the end, he couldn't resist his greed. After Baidu quickly provided supporting services to several major portals, it was spotted by some venture capitalists. In order to arm himself with more valuable venture capital financing ratio, the acquisition of 123 is undoubtedly a good choice.

So Baidu offered 16 million yuan and directly increased the negotiation by 1 million yuan. However, there is a condition that only 6 million yuan can be paid in advance, and the subsequent 10 million yuan needs to be paid in installments within one year after Baidu raises funds. This makes him still inclined to trade with 361.

After all, the bubble of Internet companies just burst in the first half of this year. Although we don’t know whether this storm will sweep the country, one year is too unsafe in this industry. However, the price increase of 1 million yuan is not small, so he slightly dragged the 361 side.

Then 361 increased to 16 million yuan and paid it directly, and Baidu raised the price of the 123 website to 20 million yuan, looking determined to win.

This made Zhang Qianyang, who was originally inclined to trade with 361, no longer entangled, and began to sit on the Diaoyutai and watch the two companies fight, and he finally made a profit.

Although he knew that doing so might be dangerous, Zhang Qianyang also had his own confidence. After all, 123 is the absolute leader in the current domestic browser market, occupying almost 53% of the market share.

That is to say, most of all Internet users are using 123. Although Qiu Bosong is coming in with great momentum, 361 has not yet been rolled out in the market.

Therefore, if he wants to take 123 as a springboard, waiting a while will only benefit him, because as time goes by, the number of views of 123 is still steadily increasing.

The longer the negotiation time is delayed, the more the price of 123 will rise steadily. What he didn't expect was that Baidu just called out a price of 20 million, and Qiu Bosong ignored him.

After waiting for a while and finding no results, Zhang Qianyang prepared to trade with Baidu. Although the other party's installment payment was not what he liked, he was very satisfied with the transaction price of 20 million.

What he didn't expect was that Baidu, which was in the process of financing negotiations, should need 123 browser as an important supplement, but after Qiu Bosong withdrew, Baidu's attitude instantly became ambiguous.

First, the progress of the negotiations was slow, and then they began to argue over the price. At this time, Zhang Qianyang found something wrong, so he went to Qiu Bosong again, but in the end he only offered 14 million, which was lower than the previous price.

At first, Zhang Qianyang watched the browser traffic increase steadily. Although he was very upset by Baidu and Qiu Bosong's bargaining, he was not in a hurry. Because he is still the boss of the domestic browser market.

But for a period of time, the traffic increased but the market share did not increase, but decreased. This made Zhang Qianyang feel uneasy as if he had grass growing in his heart.

At present, the number of domestic Internet users has increased from nearly 6 million at the beginning of the year to 8 million. It was originally expected that the number of domestic Internet users could exceed 10 million next year, and it might be achieved by the end of this year. Next year, it might be able to rush towards 20 million.

In this way, when the Internet was erupting in the financial crisis all over the world, the Great Wall of China's market was like the Himalayas, blocking the cold current outside, and the domestic Internet market was booming.

Therefore, as the boss of the browser market, as the number of Internet users increases, the market share should also gradually increase while the number of browser traffic increases.

But he found that it was not the case. First of all, the domestic system is currently Microsoft's system, and the browser that comes with the Microsoft system occupies a part of the market.

Then Sohu Browser intervened here, and although 361 Browser did not successfully acquire it and expanded the market a little slowly, it started with game players and cooperated with major Internet cafes across the country.

The browser is very reasonable in terms of page production and content design. Therefore, many netizens who are used to surfing the Internet in Internet cafes will subconsciously choose to install 361's browser instead of 123 when buying their own computers.

This has caused the phenomenon that 123 has a lot of page views but the market share has not increased. This made him smell a sense of crisis. After all, the browser is mainly based on traffic.

But the traffic is not fixed on his website, but can be transferred. The stickiness of the browser binding users is really too poor. Today's traffic looks good, but tomorrow there may be a cliff-like avalanche.

So at this time, Zhang Qianyang wanted to speed up the negotiations with Baidu, and even made concessions on the promised price of the other party before, but Baidu's negotiations were still tepid, hoping that he would lower it again.

At this time, he felt that he was being fooled, so he started to look for Qiu Bosong again. As a result, Qiu Bosong's offer was only 12 million, and the reason given was very simple. 361 now has a certain market share.

And they also have their own plans. Even if they don't acquire 123, they are confident that they can become the leader of browsers within two years. Acquiring 123 is just to speed up this entry into the city, and they have no pressure to raise funds with Dongxu Technology, so it is not so important whether it is fast or not.

"MD!" In the office of 123 company, Zhang Qianyang hung up the phone and cursed fiercely.

He has already reduced the price promised by the other party to 18 million, but Baidu still drags on and doesn't want to talk. It seems that they have also noticed that 361 browser has entered the market and its performance is good and has begun to grow steadily. After the demand for 123 is not as urgent as before, they naturally don't want to pay so much money without competitors.

And Baidu is not unwilling to talk. They were really sincere when they acquired 123 before, because it was related to their second round of financing.

But recently they found a new profit channel, 'search engine bidding ranking', which is the operation model of searching for spam ads that were criticized by countless online games in the future.

This operation model was not actually created by Baidu, but by Google. Google is also a search engine, so it works very well when it is used on Baidu.

Therefore, after having their own profit model, they have become stronger. It seems unnecessary to spend nearly 20 million to buy a coat to disguise themselves. After all, when they acquired 123 before, it was just for financing, and they did not intend to make a browser.

After all, there are not only Baidu in the search market in China, but also Yahoo and Google are eyeing it. Baidu is not the only one in the market, and it has competitors and cannot divert its attention.

Therefore, they have a stronger profit model, and with the withdrawal of 361 Company, they are naturally not as active as before in negotiating with 123.

While Zhang Qianyang was cursing, Yang Dongxu and Qiu Bosong were looking at the finished web games in the game department of Sunrise Technology. At present, Sunrise Technology has established its third game department - the web game department.

The collection web game launched is "Fenghuo Zhuhou". According to the general framework mentioned by Yang Dongxu, with sufficient programmers, this strategic web game was designed in more than a month and is now being tested.

"Zhang Qianyang called again and wanted to resume negotiations with us?" Qiu Bosong stood beside Yang Dongxu, and the two were watching several programmers working on the test of the web game.

"Does Baidu look down on him?"

"Baidu has set up a bidding ranking, and the second round of financing was smoother than expected. After all, both Google and Yahoo are doing English search now.

And Baidu is the largest Chinese search engine in the world. In addition to the skyrocketing number of Internet users in China and its independence in this Internet bubble wave, many venture capitalists are optimistic about Baidu, and it doesn't need to bundle a browser with it." Qiu Bosong said.

"10 million, if he sells it, it's this price, if he doesn't sell it, forget it." Yang Dongxu thought about it and said.

In fact, the acquisition of 123 was just to pave the way for the promotion of 361. In fact, the browser aspect is not very profitable in China. Even 360, which later dominated the world, always wanted to find various profit channels, which seemed to be a bit difficult.

According to the development history of the domestic Internet, the three major portals have now reached the peak of the historical period, and the entire Internet market will transition from 1.0 to 2.0 in the future.

At this time, portals began to decline, search engines began to be popular, and Baidu also took advantage of this opportunity to rise completely.

But whether it is 1.0, 2.0, or the era of Internet 3.0 after 2008, the browser is only an important component of the Internet, but it has never played the core role.

Yang Dongxu wanted to make a browser for the comprehensive development chain of security guards, portals and videos in the future. Relying on browsers for profit alone, to be honest, he might as well compete with Baidu for search.

"12 million, he should be able to accept this price, which is considered to be the market price without premium." Qiu Bosong said, and then nodded at the web game being tested.

If the web game didn't appear, he would definitely tend to continue to lower the price. Anyway, 361 Browser is being promoted well now, so it doesn't matter whether it acquires 123 or not.

But the web game is a little different. This thing is very dependent on the browser market share. And because the threshold is not too high, if they don't acquire 123 at that time, 123 can also do it.

"I almost forgot about this thing." Yang Dongxu rubbed his chin, "You can negotiate it and get it before the game is publicly tested.

In this way, when the game is publicly tested, all computer users using 361 Browser will pop up a link on the web page, just like MM and CC. At the same time, we will also have an authorized login. The number of players of Legend and Swordsman is also in the millions."