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Chapter 287 The Age of Crazy
Ying Haiwei has the most staff, not the technology development department, but the promotion department, that is, the advertising department.

The technology department is busy now, not improving Ying Haiwei's most profitable online business technology, but busy with "exchange center system", "online payment system", and the most fashionable "online game" business.

Is there anything wrong with these businesses? Of course there is nothing wrong, and it can even be said to be ahead of the curve, but now Ying Haiwei’s most profitable business is the Internet business. Travel expenses!

Unlike America, what Ying Haiwei does is to act as an agent for these domestic telecommunication lines, and then collect fees from users, and the bulk of the collection is handed over to the telecommunication operators.

The domestic telecommunications lines belong to the post and telecommunications operators, and the bulk of the Internet fee is also the telephone fee generated by dial-up Internet access, which is taken away by the post and telecommunications departments. What Ying Haiwei can earn is the meager Tolls are nominally "access service fees".

AOL can make much more money than Ying Haiwei, and Ying Haiwei can't even touch the business that AOL can do.

Even so, Ying Haiwei didn't seem to care too much about the "access service business". Song Yang saw Shutong calling to complain about Ying Haiwei's dropped calls in just a few minutes in the technical department. But Ying Haiwei didn't seem to care too much about it.

After receiving the call, he just hung up the phone in a perfunctory manner. It is not difficult to solve this problem technically, but Ying Haiwei's technical department seems a little indifferent, and Song Yang only knows why Ying Haiwei is like this after asking.

There are not many domestic sites now, and a considerable part of users visit foreign sites, but the longer the visits to foreign sites and the more times they visit, the higher the fees that need to be paid to telecom operators, and Ying Haiwei has to pay back The money goes to Telecom and Post and Telecommunications.

Under such circumstances, it is not surprising that the problem of "dropping" appears. Ying Haiwei has no interest in solving this problem, and even wishes to get disconnected a few more times so that domestic users will not visit foreign websites any more. , Ying Haiwei can also lose less money, not only Ying Haiwei, but also several other companies that provide Internet access services, all of which are in a mess and are struggling to support.

When Song Yang saw this, he could only shake his head and sigh. Ying Haiwei's situation was like this, and the situation of other domestic Internet companies can be imagined.

"Ying Haiwei now has more than 8000 registered users, of which more than [-] users have subscribed with Hotmail mailboxes, and provide Internet services for more than [-] companies!"

After visiting Yinghaiwei, Zhang Shuxin, Song Yang, Zhang Songcheng and others entered the meeting room, basically going through a process, and under the witness of the electronic information department, the two sides reached a cooperation.

Zhang Shuxin talked about Yinghaiwei's situation to Song Yang and the others, "At present, Yinghaiwei has various services such as forums, mailboxes, and Internet information, and is now developing a program for Yinghaiwei to surf the Internet. Users need this program software to Internet access, which is expected to increase a large part of the payment ratio!"

Hearing this, Song Yang finally couldn't help but said to Zhang Shuxin, "Is it necessary to launch this kind of program? Users are already accustomed to the current way of surfing the Internet. They use Yinghaiwei because Yinghaiwei can provide them with Forums, e-mail and other services, rather than necessarily going online through Yinghaiwei!"

This is like, before, you can go online directly, but now Ying Haiwei insists on letting you go online through this software. This can certainly increase the charging rate, but for users, it is just taking off their pants and farting, which is not beneficial, but more troublesome.

But upon hearing Song Yang's words, a technical director of Ying Haiwei immediately said, "This online system has been developed by us with a lot of manpower, technology and funds. How can we give up like this?!"

Hearing what the technical director said, Song Yang didn't know what to say for a while.

As for Irene, Whitman and the others, they were surprised when they saw someone refute Song Yang's words.

Not to mention here, as the founder of Double Click, ICQ, and Hotmail, Song Yang's attainments in Internet products are unmatched by anyone in Silicon Valley. Now these two websites are far away from each other in terms of product design and functional experience. Ahead of its peers, it is regarded as a classic website, and the viral marketing of Hotmail mailboxes has been selected by Harvard and Stanford Business Schools.

Even opponents such as Netscape, Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL, Softbank, etc., have never doubted Song Yang's talent and vision in the Internet industry, but they are being questioned here?
Zhang Songcheng, who was sitting on the side, was also frowning at this time. He was selected as the person to receive Song Yang this time. He naturally knew about the Internet. Zhang Songcheng dared not say that there must be something wrong with Song Yang, but he definitely did. Definitely not that good.

And Ying Haiwei's reason here is that this Internet access system costs too much money, so he can't give it up. Zhang Songcheng doesn't know what to say for this reason.

Zhang Shuxin actually doesn't care much about Internet products. What she wants to do is to make Ying Haiwei famous and let more domestic users use Ying Haiwei to surf the Internet. She doesn't really care much about other things.

Seeing that the atmosphere was a bit stiff, Zhang Shuxin changed the subject, "Mr. Song, I think ICQ's acquisition of Xueleshan to enter the online game industry is the most important decision. In the future, the game industry will be one of the most important industries on the Internet. Now Ying Haiwei is also developing an online game business, and will complete the development of more than ten high-level online game projects by next year!
Zhang Shuxin's sense of smell and foresight for the Internet is nothing to say at all, and he can also see the trend of the Internet, but he is really too hasty.

Irene, who is in charge of ICQ and Xueleshan, was stunned when she heard that Ying Haiwei was going to develop ten high-level online games in one year.

Xueleshan also has its own game studio. How long does it take to develop a game? It takes at least one or two years. Blizzard develops a game. The average cycle is more than two years, and it is getting slower and slower. Ying Hai Wei's game here is comparable to a high-yielding sow.

In fact, Zhang Shuxin was a little humble when he said it. Ying Haiwei’s previous request for the game development department was to develop ten games within three months. Next year, Ying Haiwei’s game revenue should reach more than 1000 million yuan...

"Ying Haiwei's revenue will be greatly improved in the future. We hope that we can reach cooperation with Double Click, ICQ, eBay, America Telecom, etc.!" Zhang Shuxin seems to be very important for Ying Haiwei's profitability. Confidence in reason.

On the contrary, it was Song Yang who had to visit the delegation. At this time, everyone was confused. It was Ying Haiwei who was blowing too much. Irene, Whitman and others all turned their gazes to Song Yang.

At this time, Song Yang didn't know what he was thinking, and he said after a while, "Asian Star Wish Fund can give Ying Haiwei more than 300 million US dollars in venture capital, and provide Ying Haiwei with technical support. Double-click can start cooperation with Ying Haiwei in the Internet advertising business!"

He invested a sum of money in Ying Haiwei to allow Double-click to enter the domestic market, but Song Yang didn't mention ICQ, eBay, America Telecom, etc. at all.

Hearing this, Zhang Shuxin, Ying Haiwei and other executives felt a little strange in their hearts, but Irene, Omidyar and others breathed a sigh of relief and handed over ICQ and other business to Ying Haiwei. I'm really worried.

However, Song Yang did not allow ICQ and eBay to enter the domestic market, not only because Ying Haiwei was unreliable, but for future considerations. If ICQ enters the domestic market, in the future, the Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Trade, and Ministry of Legal Affairs of America will Even when the FBI and other departments ask ICQ and others to hand over domestic user data, will Songyang pay or not? !

It's okay to invest some money, but Song Yang has no plan to let ICQ, eBay, and American Telecom enter the domestic market!
Zhang Shuxin seemed to want to say something, but Song Yang had already got up and was about to leave the venue to visit Lao Zhang's place. At this time, Zhang Songcheng who was sitting in the corner suddenly said, "Mr. Song, I hope America Telecom can cooperate with Ying Hai." We will work together on telecommunications broadband technology!"

Song Yang's eyes met Zhang Songcheng's, and they both looked at each other. The domestic telecommunications industry is not conservative. In addition to Alcatel Telecom, there are also Japanese and European telecom giants, which are expanding their territory in China.

So entering America Telecom seems to make sense, and Zhang Songcheng mentioned this to Song Yang, obviously not just wanting America Telecom to enter the domestic market.

Song Yang and Zhang Songcheng looked at each other for a while, and finally nodded, "America Telecom can invest 500 million dollars in Yanjing to build a telecommunications laboratory, introduce Bell Labs, and America Telecom, Bell Labs and Ying Haiwei will jointly develop telecommunications. technology!"

It wasn't until Song Yang's figure left the meeting room that Zhang Songcheng got up and slowly packed up his things. There are many people who want to get a share of the domestic telecommunications market, but there are not many companies that are willing to cooperate with domestic technology. , Zhang Songcheng was also probing just now, but Song Yang agreed.

What Song Yang did after he came to Yanjing is obviously completely different from those investors in the past. He made a big long-term investment from the very beginning. The foreign exchange that Song Yang spread in the past two days alone far exceeds the domestic investment of some giant companies. up.

After tidying up and going downstairs to get on the car, Zhang Songcheng took out a report and started to write. This is Zhang Songcheng's work report, which was also handed over to the head of the department.

When Song Yang left Ying Haiwei and went to Lao Zhang's office, the venture capital department of the Star Wish Foundation was established, and the venture capital of 2000 million dollars has spread throughout the Internet industry.

And at this time, news spread again that the venture capital department of Star Wish Fund made its first investment, 300 million US dollars, to Ying Haiwei. Through a large group of media, the news spread again!
(End of this chapter)