Chapter 1257 Notebook

Zhou Buqi was going to England, and it happened that Tang Binchen had returned to China. The two of them had a chance to have a simple meeting this morning. Ziweixing's overseas market development is undoubtedly the best in Japan.

UC Beauty is the hottest and most popular mobile application in Japan at the moment, and it is a must-have for everyone. For them, it seems that they cannot post photos without retouching them.

In addition, Tang Binchen confidently said that by the end of this year or early next year, YikYak may become the second most trafficked website in Japan after Yahoo Japan.

Under this situation, Chen Dong planned to pursue the victory.

There are too many excellent and creative products under Ziweixing. Just find a few entry points, and it is possible to drive a wave of sought-after products.

"software?"

"Yes, the Japanese software market is still a very traditional payment model. This will help us to promote Weidian notes and Weidian ledger."

"How about UC Mobile Assistant?"

Zhou Buqi frowned slightly.

He felt that Tang Binchen was a little too anxious.

He probably also heard that Ziweixing was going to split the overseas market, and he wanted to show a more impressive report card as soon as possible, and then have a higher position in the newly split Ziweixing Overseas Group.

Tang Binchen said with a smile: "Very good, UC products are very popular. Especially UC Assistant, which has greatly helped many users solve the transfer from mobile phone to computer, especially iPhone and Aster. Browse through UC Assistant, UC Driven by devices and UC beauty, the brand effect of UC has been established, and I think we should take advantage of the victory and pursue it.”

"oh."

Zhou kept calm.

Tang Binchen said: "Midian's brand is not conducive to overseas promotion, but UC can. Weidian has many excellent products. I think now is the best time to launch UC notebooks and UC ledgers. Weidian's domestic paying users There are about 3.5 million. But Japan is different, they are used to spending money to use software. Once UC Notes goes online, the number of paying users may exceed that in China in a short period of time.”

After a pause, he then added, "UC Assistant, UC Browser, and UC Beauty are all free products, and the operating expenses are not low. UC Notes and UC Ledger can become products for harvesting traffic."

Zhou Buqi looked flat, "Are there any products like Weidian Notes and Weidian Ledger available in Japan?"

Tang Binchen said, "Japan doesn't have them, but America does."

Zhou Buqi raised his eyebrows, "America?"

Tang Binchen said: "Ledgers are mainly in the form of websites, and the experience is not good. Note products have only appeared in recent years. There are technical and equipment limitations in cloud space. There is a product called Evernote, which has not developed business in Japan. It is very popular among Japanese white-collar workers, and it is said that there are already tens of thousands of paying users."

"Didn't develop business in Japan?"

Zhou Buqi was surprised.

Not developing business in Japan means that there is no Japanese version, it is a pure English product, and the English level of the Japanese is very poor, can this be very popular?

And more importantly, not developing business in Japan means that the servers are all in the United States. If Japanese white-collar workers want to use this note-taking product, they need to connect to a server in the United States across the Pacific Ocean, which will be very slow and delayed, and the experience of using it is very poor.

But even in this harsh situation, tens of thousands of paying users can be accumulated in Japan... It can be seen that Japanese white-collar workers love this type of product.

No wonder Tang Binchen is so anxious and eager to bring Weidian Notes to the Japanese market. This is because he has seen a product space that has a huge market demand but has not been resolved.

Tang Binchen said: "Evernote is very popular in Japan, but the company's strength is relatively weak. It has only won the Angel round, and it is difficult to promote its business in the United States, let alone the Japanese market. However, I heard a piece of news recently. NTT_DoCoMo, the largest operator in Japan, has seen this market and is planning to invest in Evernote.”

"Invest in Evernote?" Zhou Buqi immediately understood the meaning behind the news, "This is to send a sum of money to Evernote, and then lure them to Japan to develop the market!"

Tang Binchen agreed with this statement, saying: "Since we have similar products, why should we give up this market to others? The cloud data center in Tokyo is already under construction, and we have better infrastructure."

The business expansion of Weidian Note is actually a Saa service in the field of cloud computing. When the user uploads the content to the micronote, it is actually uploading to the cloud. Then it can be synchronized to all terminal platforms through the cloud.

Such functionality is currently missing.

The main reason is that cloud computing has not developed.

But in another year or two, Weidian Note will have a far superior advantage over Evernote, and will have stronger competitiveness.

This is the advantage of large companies, which have stronger and richer resource integration capabilities.

Zhou Buqi nodded, "Since the market research has been done, let's do it! Don't worry about NTT_DoCoMo, this is the operator, even if they see this business opportunity, they still need multiple rounds of investigations. OK. After their investigation, research and due diligence are over, and they decide to make a decision to invest, maybe Weidian Notes has already entered the Japanese market.”

Tang Binchen was very happy, "So it can be done?"

Zhou Buqi approved, "If you think it's okay, then do it... Well, by the way, how about the global market?"

"ah?"

Tang Binchen was slightly taken aback.

Zhou Buqi waved his hand, "It's okay, I'll think about it later."

After Tang Binchen left, Zhou Buqi also left the company. Going home to pick up Aunt Xue, Xue Baoshan's wife, Ning Yaxian and Ning Yameng, Wu Yu is also pouting and going to England together.

Before leaving, he turned on the computer and specifically checked the Silicon Valley start-up company Tang Binchen mentioned Evernote.

Cloud computing is a huge project with huge investment.

Only a cloud data center consisting of 10,000-20,000 servers requires an investment of 50 million US dollars.

Big investment means high risk.

To ensure the success of the investment, it is best to make enough preparations in advance. In addition to the main server leasing, big data processing and cloud computing services of cloud computing, there are more supporting functions.

Such as domain name application, such as public intranet, such as open source code library and code hosting business, such as e-commerce, such as collaborative office tools such as Weishu, and also include the direction of Weidian notes.

Serve these products through cloud computing, and drive the development of Ziwei Cloud through these products, which complement each other.

What is the origin of Evernote in Silicon Valley? How attractive is it to have tens of thousands of paying fans in Japan without doing business in Japan?

Zhou Buqi didn't know about the name Evernote, he just thought it was a small company he had never heard of. You can Google it and look it up... Heh! Then I saw the familiar green icon of Evernote.

Depend on!

Isn't this Evernote?

It turns out that Evernote in China is a branch of Silicon Valley, which is Evernote abroad.

Any company that Zhou Buqi is familiar with is a good company.

From this point of view, it seems that Tang Binchen's thinking can be surpassed in the business of network notebooks. Focusing only on the Japanese market is not enough.

...

On the plane, Wu Yu took Baoshan and Ning Yameng to play cards.

Ning Yaxian was with her daughter Ning Xinxin.

There is no way, the task of accompanying Aunt Xue is given to Zhou Buqi. It's a pity that the Gulfstream plane is too small and doesn't have a bedroom, otherwise... Otherwise, Aunt Xue can go to the bedroom to rest.

"What happened to that office?" Aunt Xue didn't know the inside story, so she could only look at it from the perspective of an ordinary person. "Since our country also has office software, why should we buy foreign ones? Shouldn't domestic software be supported?"

Zhou Buqi was very helpless, "Auntie, why are you paying attention to this matter?"

Aunt Xue said: "There are a lot of news on the Internet, and the criticism is fierce. A number of famous universities such as Tsinghua University, Peking University, Nankai Fudan University, etc. have issued purchases to Microsoft, which seems to be hundreds of millions!"

"How can there be so many?" Zhou Buqi was angry and funny, "Aunt Xue, don't talk nonsense if you don't understand, this is not what you think."

Aunt Xue glanced at him, "You know again?"

Zhou Buqi said speechlessly: "I went to Microsoft and talked with Ballmer several times before discussing this matter. Do you think I know?"

"ah?"

Aunt Xue was taken aback for a moment, looked him up and down, with a suspicious expression.

Zhou Buqi waved his hand, "Actually, it's not much money, just an increase of 126 million US dollars."

"What's the meaning?"

"Right now, Microsoft's total domestic office sales are 874 million U.S. dollars. What they mean is that if they want to break through 1 billion U.S. dollars, an additional 126 million U.S. dollars is enough. After all, we are a developing country with limited consumption power. Take a step back and restrict piracy in China, Microsoft only asks for US$1 billion in sales and an annual growth rate of no less than 10%.”

Aunt Xue was very puzzled, "Why? I read the news and said that there are many office software in China."

Zhou Buqi glanced at her, "Then why do you drive BMWs and Audis instead of domestic Geelys and BYDs? Doesn't Jinshan have WPS... Oh yes, WPS is free, you know? Why do you think users don't If you use the genuine free WPS, do you want to use the pirated version of Microsoft Office, or even spend money to buy the genuine one?”

Aunt Xue said angrily: "How do I know? Don't take a lecture tone, it's not big or small!"

"I'm here to explain your confusion..." Zhou Buqi laughed.

Aunt Xue sighed, "Forget it, I don't understand your big things. It would be great if there was a bathroom on this plane. I want to take a shower."

Zhou Buqi said in a low voice: "Well, when we go to England, shall we take a shower together? No, no... A slip of the tongue, I said we should swim together? Wear a bathing suit to see the head office?"

Aunt Xue's face was reddish, she gritted her teeth and glared at him, and said in a low voice, "Stop showing it to you?"

"It's beautiful and delicious, and it can satisfy your hunger."

"Go to the side, be careful, I'll tell Baoshan!"

Aunt Xue gave him a push.