Chapter 1396 The emergence of ICQ and QQ! (page 12)
After Wang Shi and Yang Ming met.
Wang Shi found that he was still a lot immature in the shopping mall. Compared with Mr. Yang's series of successes in Hong Kong business, it was indeed incomparable.
When Wang Shi left Xiangjiang and returned to Vanke's headquarters in Pengcheng, he immediately announced that a series of subsidiaries would be disposed of, either sold or directly disposed of.
These subsidiaries basically do not make money, but have high costs.
It was announced that these subsidiaries would be disposed of and the company would focus on the real estate industry. In other words, from this moment onwards, Vanke would focus on the real estate industry.
Wang Shi's series of actions immediately won the support of large and small shareholders, but Zhang Guoqing of Jun'an Securities Company knew that he had lost, and he had lost miserably.
soon.
Time has entered April.
The time came to October 1994, 4.
Wednesday.
Yang Ming came to Xiangjiang Science and Technology Park.
Because today, there are new results coming out.
It's exactly related to instant messaging software.
In the early 1990s, Yang Ming proposed to develop his own instant messaging software.
In fact, he was thinking of QQ in history, and the predecessor of QQ was ICQ, which was imitated by Israel.
Historically, in 1996, three Israelis, Visig, Vardy, and Goldfinger, got together and decided to develop software that enabled people to communicate quickly and directly on the Internet.
They named the new software ICQ, which means "I SEEK YOU".
ICQ supports functions such as chatting, sending messages, and transferring files on the Internet.
They established Mirabilis, a company that provides Internet instant messaging services to registered users.
The number of users using ICQ grew rapidly. Six months later, ICQ was announced to have become the instant messaging software with the largest number of users in the world at that time.
In the seventh month, ICQ's official users reached 7 million.
In 1998, ICQ was acquired by M Country Online for US$4.07 million. At this time, its number of users exceeded 1000 million.
In 1998, America Online (AOL) purchased ICQ and later launched 99a, 99B, 2000 and other versions with more functions, but at the same time, advertisements were inserted into ICQ.
The built-in search function has made the software bloated, coupled with the unpopular advertising column, and the launch of MSN Messenger, SkyPE and other software, the number of people using ICQ has declined. Later, Mirabilis launched a simplified version of ICQ lite, which only contains the most basic functions of ICQ.
Historically, OICQ, an Internet-based instant messaging network tool, was independently developed by Tangxun of Mahuateng in February 1999. In October 2, just as OICQ was sweeping the domestic instant messaging market, a lawyer's letter was sent to Tangxun Company, which had just been established three years ago.
ICQ's parent company, M Country Online (AOL), sued Tencent for infringement and asked OICQ to change its name. Mahuateng was so anxious that he changed OICQ's name to QQ.
However, after infringement was pointed out, Tangxun launched the QQ2000 version in November 11, and OICQ was officially renamed QQ.
In addition to the name change, the logo of Tangxun QQ has not changed. It has always been a little penguin. Because the little penguin in the logo is very cute and charming and is very popular among girls, it is called cute in English. Because cute and Q are homophonic, so the little penguin paired with QQ is also a good name.
At this time, the three Israelites had naturally not yet developed ICQ.
However, here in Xiangjiang Science and Technology City, a technology company under the Empire Group has successfully developed ICQ Company, which is an instant messaging software.
This instant communication software has been tested internally and can be used internally, but it has not yet been announced to the public.
When Yang Ming came over, he saw the current ICQ at first glance. He felt that it was more like QQ that would appear more than ten years in the future. This may be because after Yang Ming told about QQ in his previous life, these programmers followed Yang Ming's instructions. Ming said it was necessary to design.
"Boss, you are really a genius. I didn't expect that the instant messaging software you came up with is really very convenient. As long as you have a computer and the Internet, you can communicate instantly. It's more convenient than text messages on mobile phones. The most important thing is that it doesn't cost money. It's free. of."
However, they don't understand that a free instant messaging system is equivalent to revolutionizing their own lives.
After all, Xiangjiang's telecommunications company is now the property of Yang Ming and the Imperial Group.
Yang Ming looked at them and said: "In the future, traffic is money, and it is a steady stream of money, and traffic is customers."
Yang Ming has explained this sentence to many people. If you can't understand it, of course you know what it is.
If you can’t figure it out, you probably still can’t figure it out.
However, Yang Ming knew that historically it was too easy for QQ to make money. In addition to memberships, skins, and introduced games, advertisements, etc., they were all very profitable.
Especially games. When games were introduced at that time, they immediately made money that many companies could not make.
Because the QQ traffic in history is really huge, basically every computer and every mobile phone will install it.
At this time, Yang Ming took a look at the instant messaging system developed by his company. He found that it was really good, and it was not much different from QQ after 2000.
"Very good, just like I imagined."
At this time, Yang Ming planned to divide ICQ into two parts.
Some are foreign and some are domestic.
Overseas, ICQ is the main one, while domestically, it is changed to QQ.
Of course, domestic QQ will be an independent company and equal to ICQ.
Historically, ICQ companies did not develop and even missed the opportunity to develop instant messaging. Although they were the first to become popular, they were quickly defeated by other companies.
QQ has always been the dominant player in China, and no instant messaging software has ever surpassed it.
Even if WeChat appeared later, in fact, WeChat was developed on the basis of QQ.
"ICQ company will be divided into two parts. One part will be based in Xiangjiang as the parent company, but it will establish branches in various countries, focusing on Japan, M country, and European countries. The other part will be domestic, and the parent company will be established in Pengcheng. The main market is domestic. Moreover, these two companies are independent, financially, legally, etc. As for you, you can go to the domestic company in Pengcheng, or you can stay at ICQ."
They couldn't figure out why the boss divided things like that, but they knew there must be a reason why the boss divided things like that.
Although Xiangjiang now has the Internet gene, its population is still small. Even though it now has a population of nearly 10 million, it is still far behind.
There are more than one billion people in the country, while other overseas countries have large populations.
In other words, they feel that the boss’s division may be to distinguish the domestic market from the foreign market.
Now separate the two parts.
Yang Ming left two people in charge.
Both of these people are responsible for the development of ICQ.
One is General Manager Cage, a typical white man from Country Y, but he has worked for the Empire Group for many years.
One is deputy general manager Lin Sheng. He is a native of Xiangjiang, but he returned from studying abroad.
"Cage, you continue to serve as the general manager of ICQ's parent company, but what you have to do next is to expand overseas markets as much as possible in addition to country Z. The key markets are Japan, country M, and European countries. In addition, other countries cannot ignore it.”
