I don''t know if I didn''t check it. I was surprised when I checked it. With Fang Zhe''s seriousness and attention, the information compiled and reported by Li Wen made Fang zhe more convinced that the bat three have probably reached some tacit understanding and agreement in private!
The first thing Fang zhe noticed was that as early as last October, Tencent sold its search business Tencent search to Baidu. At the same time, Tencent''s QQ browser also began to use Baidu search by default.
During that time, Fang zhe was busy visiting overseas. Even if Li Wen reported the news to him later, he only thought Tencent was a normal strategic contraction.
On reflection, Fang zhe remembers that in his previous life, although Tencent also gave up Tencent soso, it sold it to Sohu''s subsidiary Sogou in 2013 and spent hundreds of millions of dollars on strategic investment in Sogou. Sogou''s search model with input method as the entrance really bit down Baidu''s market share, Tencent is also happy to find such a small strong competitor for Baidu!
But now, everything has changed and become very thorough and serious. Tencent not only did not invest in Sogou against Baidu as in the previous life, but also sold its search business to Baidu and is compatible with Baidu search, which means that Ma and Tencent have completely abandoned the search business.
At the end of last year, google cut down and closed its products and businesses in the social direction of Baidu Hi, google space and so on!
Now Tencent and google not only do not compete as in previous lives, but have carried out no small business cooperation.
Then, at the beginning of this year, Lin Chen, President of Tencent''s e-commerce website Tencent, resigned. It is rumored in the industry that Tencent executives intend to further shrink the front and cut off its e-commerce business.
"President Fang, according to my investigation, Lin Chen is now starting a business in Jianghai and doing online second-hand car transactions in the direction of o2o. The company has completed Angel round financing. It is said that Lin Chen once disclosed in a private dinner that Tencent President Ma has planned to package and sell e-commerce business to Alibaba. At the same time, the two may also conduct in-depth cooperation in social e-commerce!"
The news reported by Li Wen made Fang zhe squint.
In previous lives, Tencent packaged and sold its e-commerce businesses such as paipai.com to jd.com in 2015, and strategically invested in jd.com, which also found a small strong competitor for Alibaba. However, in this life, because Huizhong has invested in jd.com long ago, jd.com has become a real Huizhong system, and it is normal for Tencent to sell its e-commerce business to Alibaba.
In this way, Tencent not only directly eliminated the competitive relationship with Alibaba, but also had the basis and imagination space for cooperation. You know, Arima has always been optimistic about and yearning for social e-commerce. Therefore, Alibaba did not know how many products and how much money it spent on social networking in previous generations!
When it comes to Ali, the documents sorted out by Li Wen also have a lot of information about Alibaba''s recent activities. One thing that makes Fang Zhe''s eyelids jump is that more than a month ago, Alibaba tested a social software called "communication" among its employees!
As a reborn person in the Internet industry, Fang Zhe is very familiar with this name and this software. In his previous life, as a core strategic product of Alibaba, communication was grandly tested in the second half of 2013. Ma and Alibaba executives paid attention to this software, which can be said to be crazy, They even force their own employees to install and use contacts, and assign Alibaba employees new people and promotion tasks.
At that time, President Ma, in the future, regarded it as an opportunity to overtake Tencent in the field of mobile social networking. Therefore, he did not hesitate to spend money on promotion. Fang zhe did not expect that this product was born inside Alibaba this life, but it seems that the opponent it wants to challenge has changed from Tencent wechat to Huizhong wechat, but he doesn''t know, In this life, when wechat is better and more advanced than in the previous life, will President Ma promote communication crazily!
Li Wen collated and reported a lot of information, which is also very complex. In addition to these points highlighted by Fang Zhe, there are also some other information. Baidu has increased its investment in Baidu games and Baidu cloud, Tencent has signed the agency right in China for end game masterpieces such as fifaonline with several major overseas game companies such as EA and Ubisoft, and Alibaba''s Taobao Mall has been renamed tmall.
All kinds of information and signs show that the competitive relationship between the three companies and Huizhong''s existing business and investment business is growing!
The confrontation between Huizhong and bat, the last thing Fang zhe wants to see, seems to be taking shape!
To tell the truth, even if one is against three, Fang Zhe is not afraid. Fang zhe just doesn''t want to. At a time when the wave of mobile Internet is sweeping the world, China''s four largest Internet companies are busy fighting internally, thus missing and delaying the opportunity of Huizhong''s comprehensive internationalization.
Just as Huizhong supported the struggle between Myspace and Facebook at the beginning, both companies not only failed to grow into a unified social giant like Facebook in the previous life, but also were exploited by wechat and missed the best opportunity to transform to mobile Internet.
On April 20, Fang zhe convened the core executives of Huizhong to hold a closed door meeting in Chengde. This is the second closed door meeting held by Huizhong this year. The last meeting was the third day after new year''s day.
At that meeting, it was determined to establish an interactive entertainment division within Huizhong and take the pan entertainment strategy as the main goal and layout direction of Huizhong this year.
But unexpectedly, after a lapse of more than four months, Fang zhe convened a closed door meeting, which has never been seen in the development history of Huizhong in the past four years, because almost every closed door meeting indicates that Huizhong will make major strategic adjustments or encounter major problems.
Judging from the time interval of only four months since the last closed meeting, the reason for holding this closed meeting obviously belongs to the latter.
After four years of development, Huizhong has nearly 30000 employees worldwide, but there are still only a few core executives who can attend the closed door meeting.
Among them, there are not only Huizhong elders such as Zheng Siwen, Li Yifei and Shen Liang who started their business with Fang Zhe, but also senior executives who later joined and promoted, such as Huang Siyi in charge of investment business, Zhou Bin in charge of wechat and Li Wenbin in charge of cloud computing business.
Everyone seems to have a bad feeling about the convening of this meeting. We can see one or two simply from the frown that Fang Zhe, the big boss, has often frowned during this period, and that before this meeting, Fang always had no comfort in the past.
"I called you here today because there is a very important thing to discuss and decide!"
As soon as Fang zhe opened his mouth, the executives attending the meeting understood the seriousness of the matter. According to Fang Zhe''s habit of holding closed door meetings in the past, almost every topic Fang zhe said had been decided and planned for a long time, but now it seems that this matter is so serious that it is difficult for even Fang to make a decision!