Chapter 2170 Panda Mobile

Author: Wilderness Elegy

Chapter 2170 Panda Mobile

From what Zhang Yiming said, Zhou Buqi immediately understood what he meant and blurted out: "Overseas business!"

"Yes, overseas business." When Zhang Yiming said this, he showed an excited tone, "You were right again, it is indeed Microsoft!"

After the split of Ziweixing, there was a division of business.

Ziweixing handles domestic business, and Ziweixing International handles overseas business.

However, UC Group has always been operating independently, so although UC Group is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ziweixing, it can still develop overseas markets.

Well done!

In the past three years or so, UC Group has made remarkable and huge achievements in overseas markets.

For example, Ucgram, a social product that is currently popular around the world, was actually first affiliated to the UC Group.

Later, because it was so successful, it went through the revision from UC Beauty to UCgram, and the division of Ziweixing's domestic and foreign businesses. The UCgram product was split from the UC Group and assigned to Ziweixing International.

The name was changed from "UCgram" to "Ucgram" to separate it from the UC brand.

Zhou Buqi’s earliest idea was to sell UC Group. However, the price was too high and it was not easy to sell. His plan was to split UC Group’s domestic business into two parts and sell them to Baidu and Baidu respectively.

Alibaba split its overseas business and sold it to Microsoft.

Now it seems that Microsoft has a bigger appetite!

Good thing!

What a good thing!

Zhou Buqi asked: "How is UC's overseas business? I forgot to pay attention to it."

Zhang Yiming smiled and said: "Very good, there are two main products, UC Browser and UC Mobile Assistant."

"How did you do?"

"Very good. In overseas markets, UC Browser has 32 million users, and UC Mobile Assistant has 18 million users."

“Very good!”

Zhou Buqi should praise this.

This result is really impressive!

At this stage, there are more than 30 million users of smartphone apps, which can be called the current god-level apps. UC Browser has 74 million users domestically and 32 million users overseas, with a total scale of more than 100 million!

Amazing!

Zhou Buqi said in surprise: "Is UC Browser the largest in the world?"

Zhang Yiming smiled and said: "How can it be possible? There is Google. Google Chrome is bundled with the Android system, and I estimate that the number of users may be more than Helo. Just like Google Mail, Google Maps, Apple Maps, Apple iTunes, Apple Store and other products

Yes, they are all bundled with the system and are generally not included in the rankings when calculating statistics."

Zhou Buqi asked: "In other words, besides Google Chrome, is it UC Browser?"

Zhang Yiming said: "Yes."

Zhou Buqi then asked: "Doesn't it count the domestic market?"

Zhang Yiming said with a smile: "Even if you don't count the domestic market, UC Browser has more than 30 million users overseas, making it the second largest browser after Google Chrome. The main markets are Japan, the United States, and Hong Kong and Macao.

Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand.”

Zhou Buqi was determined.

Pretty much what he expected!

The reason why he conceived the idea of ​​selling UC Group's overseas business to Microsoft two years ago was mainly related to the general situation in the technology industry, which was the two-power competition between Microsoft and Google.

Entering the mobile Internet era, Microsoft has obviously fallen behind.

On computers, Microsoft can rely on the bundling of Windows systems to give the IE browser a huge market share. In the same way, on mobile phones, Google relies on the advantages of Android systems, and Microsoft will lag far behind in this regard.

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At present, the industry's understanding of mobile Internet is not deep enough. Almost no one can understand it as clearly as Zhou Buqi. He has long seen that the browser products for smartphones are actually useless.

According to the thinking of the PC Internet, the browser is the core product!

It is a central level product!

As a result, Microsoft will be very anxious.

They don't want to see Google dominate the mobile browser market, but their own IE browser has a bad reputation and has a bad reputation. Let alone enter the mobile terminal, even the market share of the computer terminal can hardly be maintained, and they are all suffering.

The attack on Google Chrome.

In this case, UC Browser will definitely enter Microsoft's sight.

Zhang Yiming said: "Last year, Microsoft spent a sky-high price of US$8.5 billion to buy Skype, which is not very impressive on the mobile side. This has no positive effect on Microsoft's stock price. There are already financial columns commenting on Wall Street, saying that Ballmer and

It’s not up to date. I guess he will make big moves this year.”

Zhou Buqi was unsure about this, "You still need to be strong to make iron."

Zhang Yiming smiled and said: "It's very tough. If you don't count the mobile apps that Google and Apple have bundled using their system advantages, there are only 10 apps in the world with more than 100 million existing users. I'm talking about smartphones.

Among them, 7 are games, "Angry Birds", "Fruit Ninja", "Crossword Puzzle", "Talking Cat", "Jewel Puzzle", "Eating Fish" and "Plants vs. Zombies"..."

"Are these 7 models the only ones?"

"It seems so."

"Oh, it's okay, go on."

Only then did Zhou Buqi understand that no wonder Don Mattrick was so stubborn. He even said that he wanted to slightly change the company's strategy and acquire Take-Two, a stand-alone game company, but he had no objection.

It turns out to be here!

Changyou has already reached this point in the mobile game market!

There are a total of 7 mobile games with more than 100 million players in the world.

Among them, 5 are Changyou games!

It can be called a dominant position.

Zhang Yiming felt more comfortable. It seemed that Boss Zhou not only didn't understand the data of many Ziweixing products, but also had a similar understanding of Changyou's situation.

Yeah, I can understand that.

Since he is in charge of so many stalls, it is impossible for him to know many business matters.

Zhang Yiming continued: "In addition to games, the remaining three mobile apps with over 100 million users are Helo, Facebook and UC Browser."

"No wonder!" Zhou Buqi understood now, "It turns out that UC is developing so well in overseas markets."

It seems that UC, under his leadership, has done much better than in its previous life.

Excluding Google and Apple applications, UC Browser ranks among the top three in the world in terms of user base.

It is only normal that it has attracted the favor of Microsoft.

I just didn't expect that he didn't pay much attention to UC Group, and he didn't put forward any good ideas for UC's overseas business development... How come UC Browser became so popular overseas?

It is not surprising that it has dominated Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand; it is normal to have won the Japanese market; but unexpectedly, it has even entered the US market.

If UC Browser hadn't had an influence in the U.S. market, Microsoft might not have taken it so seriously.

Zhang Yiming said with admiration: "The reason why you can develop so well is because your strategic design is very complete. Once the strategy is formulated, the next details are about winning more and winning less. In the end, you will definitely win."

"Stop complimenting me! I know I'm not helping at all!"

Zhou Buqi spoke very frankly.

Just a little helpless.

Such a big thing, we actually talked about it on the phone. If I had known, I would have returned to my hometown later. For this kind of thing, it is more appropriate to communicate in person.

Zhang Yiming said strangely: "How could it be possible? Without your overall strategic design, how could UC Browser develop so well? It would also be impossible to have more than 7 million mobile phones in the United States in just six months.

user."

"Ah?" Zhou Buqi was really dizzy and didn't know what contribution he had made, "What?"

Zhang Yiming said: "Fu Sheng."

"Fu Sheng..."

Zhou Buqi twitched the corner of his mouth.

A sudden realization.

Over the past year or so, Fu Sheng, with the investment from Boss Zhou, founded a company called Panda Mobile in the United States, mainly targeting the mobile Internet market.

At first, the company's name was "Cheetah Mobile", but the market response was not positive. Later, Zhou Buqi made a suggestion, saying that foreigners like pandas very much, and they could also watch the globally popular animated movie "Kung Fu Panda"

" is so popular that you can even get the animation trademark of "Kung Fu Panda" from Ziweixing Global.
To be continued...