Rebirth 1984: Starting with the development of Hanka

PS: Change the name of QQ to ICQ, otherwise if you write a little more sensitively, you will be reviewed.

Many things about the Wujiang Group will be used to amplify research in Europe and the United States. The "My Neighbor" in the ICQ instant messaging software has been used by many European and American users to make trouble. This will give M country an excuse to deal with the Wujiang Group and demand that the ICQ software be removed from the shelves.

This possibility is not impossible, but extremely likely.

Zhao Ye believed that if he were an official of the M country authorities, he would definitely make a fuss about ICQ's "My Neighborhood". Not only would ICQ be removed from the shelves, but he would also take the opportunity to discredit Wujiang Group and lower its reputation.

For ICQ, "My Nearby" is dispensable and will not affect the increase in users and user stickiness.

ICQ already has a huge number of users. Its accumulated social relationships are difficult to be replaced by another social software, and the possibility of user loss and migration is very low.

If ICQ bans "near me", it is most likely to create a competitor similar to "momo".

But, can "momo" threaten ICQ's status?

In fact, when "momo" is positioned as a color social software, its user group has been limited, and it is impossible for it to be liked by the public. After all, many people still want to save face. It's okay if you just download it secretly to find some excitement, but in work or life, people don't use "momo".

At this time, ICQ's "My Nearby" function was deleted, which immediately caused dissatisfaction among many European and American users.

"Why did you delete 'My Nearby'? This function is very good. I can use this function to pick up girls every day!"

"ICQ Company, I advise you to restore 'Near Me', otherwise, we will boycott ICQ!"

"I passed 'My Neighborhood' and hunted 15 people!"

"I passed 'My Nearby' and only found 2 people, I'm ashamed~"

"..."

Quite a few, and not all of the Internet is opposed to ICQ.

Many people say that deleting "My Nearby" from ICQ is a good thing, making ICQ purer and returning to the essence of instant chat.

"I support ICQ deleting 'near me'. Otherwise, the ICQ chat platform may become a mess and become a concentration camp for perverts! If that is the case, then I will choose a more pure chat software and persuade my relatives and friends to join in. Join another chat software and let the damn perverts continue to stay on the ICQ platform!"

"I am a parent and I am worried that my daughter will be deceived by bad men by using 'Nearby Me' to add friends!"

"..."

On the Internet, people are talking about ICQ, which has caused the popularity of ICQ to soar.

People who didn't know ICQ before heard about this, couldn't help but become interested in ICQ, and then registered as ICQ users.

For a time, the number of ICQ users surged.

As for those who say they want to boycott ICQ, they are still using ICQ to this day.

Simply delicious!

Of course, some people have discovered business opportunities and thought, if ICQ deletes "My Nearby", then if I develop an instant messaging software with the "My Nearby" function, wouldn't it be a big hit?

After a user logs into the instant chat software, he can roughly determine where he is based on his IP address, so it is not difficult to implement the "My Nearby" function.

Seeing that ICQ was still developing smoothly, Lu Cangran couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly reported to Zhao Ye to reflect the situation.

Zhao Ye was not surprised by this. He smiled faintly and replied an email to Lu Cangran, asking them to work hard to promote the instant chat software in various countries around the world. Every once in a while, ICQ should be updated to add richer functions.

At present, ICQ’s main task is to seize the market. As for monetization, we can wait until later.

……

On September 9, Dutch lithography machine company ASML was listed on Nasdaq.

Few ordinary people pay attention to this news, and many people don’t know what a lithography machine is.

Before ASML's IPO, Zhao Ye had asked Wujiang Microelectronics to disperse the ASML shares held by Wujiang Microelectronics to multiple companies. From a clear perspective, ASML's largest shareholder is already Philips. However, as far as Zhao Ye knows, Philips is not very optimistic about the development of ASML and will most likely sell its shares after ASML goes public.

In addition, before the IPO, ASML conducted a round of Pre-IPO financing, allowing many capital companies from Country M to obtain ASML's original shares in order to gain support from Country M.

After ASML’s IPO, Wujiang Group has disappeared from the list of the top ten shareholders.

However, in fact, Wujiang Group still holds 49% of ASML’s shares!

As long as some shares are purchased from the stock market, the shareholding ratio can exceed 50%.

However, Zhao Ye did not intend to reveal the fact that Wujiang Group controlled ASML behind the scenes.

Making a fortune in silence is the most important thing.

With the support of Country M, ASML's future development will definitely be smooth.

It is not difficult to imagine that when Country M lags behind China in the field of photolithography machines, it will find ways to support a company. Basically, it can only choose between ASML of the Netherlands and Canon and Nikon of Japan.

……

At this time, the capital community was very optimistic about ASML and bought ASML's shares one after another.

"The leadership is wise. ASML's stock price skyrocketed as soon as it was listed. It has now risen by 18.2%!" A trader from an institution in country M said happily.

"Haha, of course! Now all the major camera heads are optimistic about ASML, and ASML's stock price will continue to skyrocket! First of all, there are currently only three pillars of ASML, Nikon, and Canon on the market. Wujiang Microelectronics' Dawn Lithography Secondly, the shareholders behind ASML include Wujiang Microelectronics and Philips, and Philips is a shareholder of TSMC. In other words, ASML can obtain the two major chip foundry giants Wujiang Microelectronics and TSMC. support!"

As soon as he finished speaking, an employee quickly rushed into the office hall and shouted to everyone involuntarily: "Good news! Wujiang Microelectronics has just announced that it will purchase 66 lithography machines from ASML!"

As soon as the news came out, the manager of the institution was slightly stunned, with a look of shock on his face, and then shouted excitedly to his subordinates: "Why are you standing there, buy ASML quickly!!!!"

After everyone heard this, they reacted and quickly bought ASML's shares like crazy.

Institutions always get the news faster than retail investors.

When institutions started buying ASML, retail investors were still confused. Some investors saw ASML's buy orders at a very high price and couldn't help but sell their stocks.

When the news spread that Wujiang Microelectronics had acquired a large number of ASML lithography machines, it regretted it.

At this time, both institutions and retail investors believed that Wujiang Microelectronics seemed to have given up on independent research and development of lithography machines, and instead chose to purchase ASML's lithography machines. ASML's development potential suddenly soared.

Most Chinese companies adhere to the idea of ​​"making is worse than buying". In addition, the development of lithography machines is indeed very difficult, and Wujiang Microelectronics is also one of ASML's shareholders. Therefore, Wujiang Microelectronics gave up its independent research and development of lithography machines. , and then stopping the loss promptly is a normal business behavior.