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There are too many fights between Internet companies, and there are endless open and covert struggles. There have even been cases of hackers attacking each other's servers. But for the entire industry, it is the first time to see something like Haobo Technology doing this.

It can be said that Haobo Technology was very gentlemanly in its fight with Sina this time. It did not launch any attack on Sina and only erased Sina from its own products. Not to mention that the current Internet laws and regulations are not perfect. Even if they were perfect, there would be no way to impose any sanctions or criticism on Haobo Technology. It's their own product line, they can play with it however they want, so Sina is destined to suffer a loss this time.

Secondly, Haobo Technology is really too cunning. Their blocking logic was studied for a long time by a group of industry insiders. After they thoroughly studied this genius-level blocking logic, they mourned for Sina in their hearts. Apart from anything else, Sina was completely defeated by Haobo Technology this time.

Sina immediately held an emergency meeting to discuss how to deal with Haobo Technology. Nie Yuan was in a very bad mood. He had said long ago that he should not do UC and should not compete head-on with Haobo Technology. As a result, no one in the room paid any attention to him. Instead, they ridiculed him. Now, if Haobo Technology did not take action, it would be fine. But once it did, it would go straight to the foundation of Sina.

At the beginning of the meeting, Sina's technical department announced a set of the latest data: from the time Haobo Technology started targeting Sina to now, Sina's traffic has dropped by 30%!

One sentence, everyone was shocked!

Those senior executives who were full of confidence in the past were suddenly dumbfounded. They did not expect that a quarter of the traffic on their portal website would be blocked by Haobo Technology in an instant, and this was just the beginning.

Sina is a Nasdaq-listed company. The US stock market is now in daylight saving time, and Nasdaq opens at 9:30 p.m. Beijing time. It won’t be long before what happened today spreads to the capital market. By then, Sina’s stock price may…

The CEO couldn't sit still any longer. "The most urgent thing now is how to solve the problem! If it can't be solved today and is delayed until tonight, the stock price will collapse as soon as the Nasdaq opens!"

A portal website had one quarter of its traffic cut in one day. This is simply the rhythm of collapse! Not to mention that everyone present was terrified. Once the investors in the United States knew about it, they would probably be restless. What listed companies fear most is that investors lose confidence. Once investors lose confidence, the downward trend cannot be stopped.

Nie Yuan's heart was bleeding, what an unprovoked disaster! Sina.com was his child. Because these guys wanted to compete with Haobo Technology, Haobo Technology directly targeted Sina.com. Now everyone was scared. What the hell were they doing before?

Zhao Yongde, the person in charge of the UC project, once argued with Nie Yuan in a meeting about whether to compete with Haobo Technology for the QQ team. At the beginning, he was determined to launch UC and do it in a big way. He also ridiculed Nie Yuan for opposing UC because he was afraid of being implicated. Now he was afraid that Nie Yuan would settle accounts with him later, so he immediately said righteously: "I suggest that the Ministry of Justice immediately draft an official letter to Haobo Technology, reprimanding their actions and asking them to immediately stop harming Sina! Otherwise, we will use the law to protect ourselves!"

A group of people looked at him like he was a fool, especially the head of the legal department. He asked with a look of disgust on his face, "Mr. Zhao, can you tell me which law Haobo Technology has violated? They didn't even say a word to attack us, they just blocked us in their own product system. If this can be sued for infringement, then we can also sue CCTV. Why don't they add Sina to the CCTV advertisements?"

Zhao Yongde was speechless.

Nie Yuan said angrily: "Haobo Technology is playing such a big game because we poached the QQ team at a high price and insisted on developing UC. PP is the core of Haobo Technology. If we threaten its core, it will attack our core. I still say that giving up the development of UC is the key to solving the problem!"

Zhao Yongde got anxious when he heard this. "Do you mean to disband the UC team and scrap the product that we invested so much manpower, energy, financial resources, and material resources into?"

Nie Yuan nodded without hesitation: "This is the only way to solve the dilemma."

Zhao Yongde said angrily: "Nie Yuan, don't exaggerate. Haobo Technology is not a good man. I think their revenge on us is fake, and their real intention is to imitate us and build a portal website! Do you think they will stop if we stop running UC and surrender? Don't dream!"

Zhou Hao has never been afraid of UC. It is a pipe dream for UC, a product that had never been made into QQ in his previous life, to compete with his own PP in this life. Zhou Hao just wants to use UC as a warning to others. He not only wants to be the only one in the instant messaging field, but also the only one. Therefore, he must take action against Sina and let the entire industry remember his style of doing things. In addition, he really needs a portal network to support the subsequent development of Haobo Technology in the PC field. Therefore, even if Sina weakens itself and the UC team is disbanded, Zhou Hao will not give up on building a portal network.

Now Zhou Hao’s intention is very clear. Sina must stop developing UC and then watch himself launch the PP portal.

One meeting, no solution was found.

Zhou Hao has this ability to force his opponents into an unsolvable situation. Zhou Hao blocked Sina from Haobo Technology's product line. Sina had no basis to oppose, let alone fight back.

But time is very tight for Sina. If the problem cannot be resolved before Nasdaq opens, the consequences will be serious.

The CEO of Sina really wants to talk to Zhou Hao. He doesn't think that Zhou Hao wants to build a portal. He just thinks that Zhou Hao is taking revenge and launching a fatal attack on UC, which has not yet been launched, in order to defend the absolute status of his PP. Now he has to admit that he has compromised. He really wants to make his position clear to Zhou Hao: as long as Zhou Hao stops blocking Sina, he is willing to disband the UC team on the spot and drive the QQ team that was poached at a high price out of Sina.

So he formulated two strategies: either surrender or fight to the death.

If you choose to surrender, you will have to cede land and pay compensation, and sacrifice UC to preserve the portal, but the prerequisite is that Zhou Hao is willing to accept it.

There is actually nothing to fight for. You have been messing with me silently and made me suffer such a big loss. If you don't give me a way out, I will give up the 30% of traffic and cause trouble for Haobo Technology.

Based on these two strategies, he formulated two plans. He planned to contact Haobo Technology, meet with Zhou Hao, take the initiative to cede land and pay compensation, and give up UC in exchange for Zhou Hao's favor to Sina. At the same time, he also wanted Nie Yuan to lead the portal network to prepare special articles immediately, ready to use Sina.com to launch a war of words against Haobo Technology. The content should not only magnify the fact that Haobo Technology deliberately targeted Sina, but also summarize the various despicable competitive means used by Haobo Technology in the Internet industry over the past year. If Zhou Hao still did not give in after he took a step back, he would use the influence of the portal to make Haobo Technology the target of public criticism.

Nie Yuan was not interested in the second plan because he understood that although PP did not have its own portal, it already had the ability to deliver information based on all product lines. This was different from the Sina portal, where content was delivered passively and could only be posted on Sina and wait for users to see it. However, Haobo Technology was just the opposite, it was actively delivering information directly to all PP users.

Compared with Nie Yuan, he believes that PP's information delivery capabilities and conversion rate are much higher than those of Sina and Xinlang. If Sina and Haobo Technology engage in a war of words, Haobo Technology may be the winner.

Based on this consideration, Nie Yuan expressed his opinion again. He first stated his own point of view, and then concluded: "I think it is better not to go to war with Haobo Technology for the time being. If we go to war, our chances of winning are too small.

If we take the initiative to declare war on Haobo Technology, then in the eyes of others we are actively provoking disputes. After all, Haobo Technology has never attacked Sina. They just blocked Sina in their own product line. If we take the initiative to attack Haobo Technology, how can we win the sympathy of the public? "

As a portal, Sina's greatest influence is the direction of online speech, which has become their biggest reliance at the moment.

But there is a basic law that must be followed. If you want to discredit your opponent, you must first ensure that your ability exceeds that of your opponent. Otherwise, you will be asking for trouble and humiliation.

Sina can certainly describe Haobo Technology as a Nazi wreaking havoc on the Internet on its portal, but Haobo Technology has far more users than Sina. If it really escalates into a war of words, Sina will not gain any advantage.

Because he saw through this, Nie Yuan felt that apart from reconciling with Zhou Hao, everything else was nonsense. To date, Haobo Technology has only raised round B financing and has no signs of going public, but that doesn't mean it is worse than those old Internet companies.

Especially when Nie Yuan knew that Zhou Hao owned Taobao, Alipay, "Miracle MU", and Wangwa Technology in addition to Haobo Technology, he firmly believed that Haobo Technology would be invincible in the future, and Sina's business model and development space would have no fighting power in front of him. If Sina did not find a way to make Zhou Hao stop, it would definitely pay a greater price.

Although Nie Yuan's judgment was well-founded, when he said it at the meeting, it still made those present feel dissatisfied.

Now is the time when everyone is united in hatred of the enemy. The CEO's meaning just now was very clear. Surrender is necessary, and fighting hard is also necessary. No matter how strong the opponent is, you have to rush forward when it is time to fight. At this time, Nie Yuan is still bragging about his opponent, which is just boosting others' morale and destroying his own prestige.

Sina CEO also became serious and said to Nie Yuan coldly: "Just do the tasks assigned to you and don't worry about the rest!"

Nie Yuan was speechless for a moment, he had said the truth but it seemed that he had become the target of public criticism. Nie Yuan felt furious. Why bother worrying about it? If Sina.com was really destroyed by these people, he would not be the one who regretted it the most. At worst he could just pat his butt and leave, and continue working for another company. At least he wouldn't have to see it or be bothered by it, and wouldn't have to endure this anger.

But when he thought about how he had worked at Sina for so many years and how he had worked hard to make Sina.com bigger and stronger, he still couldn't bear to leave.

Sina's CEO made up his mind and started to execute it. He asked his secretary to contact Haobo Technology immediately and tell them that he wanted to visit their CEO in the afternoon.

But when Zhou Hao heard Lu Yatong convey the other party's request to meet, he refused without hesitation.

The secretary immediately reported to the CEO of Sina, "The CEO of Haobo Technology said he doesn't want to meet with you..."

The CEO of Sina was dumbfounded. He was ready to cede land and pay compensation, but the other party didn't give him any chance and even refused to meet him.

This left him at a loss for what to do.

Although he had made preparations for both scenarios, he was more inclined to cede territory and pay compensation. He also understood that there would be no benefit in going against Haobo Technology. Just based on Haobo Technology's current influence and user resources, the possibility of Sina competing with it was zero. Otherwise, Haobo Technology would not have blocked Sina internally, causing Sina to lose a quarter of its traffic.

Haobo Technology can influence Sina, but Sina has no way to influence Haobo Technology. It can't even make an appointment with the CEO of Haobo Technology.

Sina CEO waved his hand, sent the secretary away, and sighed, "The CEO of Haobo Technology refused to meet. Mr. Zhou is really ruthless."

"What should we do then..." The other executives in the conference room were also panicked.

Zhou Hao's identity has never been a secret to Sina, but everyone knows that the top management is paying attention to Zhou Hao, so they don't take the initiative to report too much on him.

Nie Yuan also thought of Zhou Hao, this extraordinary junior brother. They had eaten together and had contact with each other. He wondered if he would give face to his senior brother?

When thinking about this, Nie Yuan was also conflicted, not knowing whether it was necessary to worry about the company anymore. But after a little hesitation, he felt that it would be better to help the company again. Regardless of whether the problem could be solved or not, at least he had to ask Zhou Hao out.

So, Nie Yuan spoke again: "Zhou Hao has a good relationship with one of my junior brothers. I have also had dinner with him. Why don't I call him and ask him?"

When the CEO of Sina heard this, he immediately said impatiently: "Then call him and tell him that we are planning to give up UC and ask him if he is willing to meet and discuss it in detail."

Nie Yuan nodded, took out his cell phone, found Zhou Hao's number and dialed it.

The moment Zhou Hao saw the call from Nie Yuan on his phone, he guessed the purpose of Nie Yuan's call. As soon as he answered the phone, he deliberately said politely: "Brother Nie, long time no see."

Nie Yuan was about to speak when the CEO beside him used lip movements and gestures to ask him to turn on the speaker.

Nie Yuan did not refuse. After turning on the speaker, he said to Zhou Hao, "Yes, it has been a long time since we last met. I called you today because our CEO wants to meet you and have a chat. Do you have time?"

Zhou Hao didn't give him any face and said immediately: "I'm sorry, Senior Brother Nie, I don't want to meet your CEO. I don't know him and there's no need to meet him."

Nie Yuan said hurriedly: "This is what happened. We held a meeting to discuss it. The company intends to give up UC, so we want to meet with you to discuss it. If the discussion goes well, we will directly disband the UC team."

Zhou Hao pretended to be stupid: "What is UC?"

Nie Yuan said: "The instant messaging software we are developing internally is called UC."

"Oh!" Zhou Hao said with a smile: "Brother Nie, this is your company's internal affairs, why bother to talk to me, an outsider?"

Seeing that Zhou Hao was still hiding something, Nie Yuan simply spoke frankly, "Zhou Hao, we still want to reconcile with Haobo Technology. If you are willing to stop targeting Sina, we are willing to disband the UC team immediately and no longer touch instant messaging software. In the future, the two sides will not interfere with each other. What do you think?"

Zhou Hao smiled and said, "Brother Nie, how can an outsider like me interfere in your company's strategic decisions?"

Nie Yuan could tell that Zhou Hao didn't want to directly contact him about this matter, so he asked: "If we disband the UC team first, can you stop blocking Sina?"

Zhou Hao said: "We are not blocking Sina.com. We are just debugging a blocking logic. This is our internal behavior and cannot be considered a blockade of Sina."

All the people who were listening secretly cursed Zhou Hao for being insidious and cunning. Nie Yuan had made it so clear, but he was still pretending to be ignorant.

Nie Yuan could only bite the bullet and ask, "Then when will you finish debugging?"

Zhou Hao groaned, "That's hard to say, Senior Brother Nie. The backend logic needs to be tested repeatedly before it can be finalized. I can tell the technicians to debug it as soon as possible."

When Nie Yuan heard that Zhou Hao pushed the blame to the technical department, he thought it was too damaging. The logic debugging, testing and debugging would take several days or even months. If Zhou Hao kept Sina under wraps and did not export it to Sina within the Haobo Technology system, Sina would suffer a great loss.

Nie Yuan wanted to try to communicate with Zhou Hao again, but Zhou Hao said, "Sorry, Senior Brother Nie, I'm busy. Let's talk another day."

After saying that, Zhou Hao hung up the phone.

Zhou Hao also understood that he could not block Sina permanently in his PP, otherwise it would cause resistance from industry insiders, so his current goal was: let his blocking logic run for a few days, during which Sina's stock price would surely plummet, which would be a lesson for Sina; secondly, he would definitely accept Sina's cession of territory and compensation, but not now, at least he had to wait a few days to let Sina feel it first.

Next, Sina will naturally have to cede territory and pay compensation, and UC must be dissolved first before Zhou Hao will stop the blockade of Sina. And when Zhou Hao lifts the blockade of Sina, it is not that he will really end his feud with Sina, but he wants to use the PP portal that is about to be launched to defeat Sina legitimately. He dare not say that he will force the Sina portal to death, but at least he wants to reduce it to a second-tier portal!