"Fatal flaw?" Jiang Yong was curious.

Qin Feng nodded.

"AOL is too big, but now he has too much appetite and wants to build a bigger Internet empire. But it is not a pure Internet company and does not know the advantages and disadvantages of the Internet." Qin Feng analyzed, "

At present, Yahoo, a pure Internet company, has just announced profits. And AOL has made frequent moves. It has spent so much money, but it has not yet been able to realize it, and it cannot realize it!"

At present, Internet companies around the world are still trying to find a profit model. Although Yahoo announced a profit, it has just broken even and is slightly profitable.

As for how to make money, make big money, and satisfy investors, we are still figuring it out.

At this stage, all Internet companies around the world have been groping for several years before gradually finding a profitable route. But unfortunately, AOL was eager to expand and wanted to quickly build an Internet empire. In the end, it expanded too fast and lacked profits.

point, and eventually collapsed.

In the end, a company with a market of more than 200 billion US dollars disappeared without a trace.

"But aren't we making money now?" Jiang Yong was puzzled.

It has now been proven that online games are the best way to make money.

Not only make money, but also make a lot of money.

Qin Feng was slightly surprised.

Indeed, this path proves that it is indeed easy to make money on the Internet. Just build online games, and there will always be players who make money.

"But it's not that easy to make money." Qin Feng said deeply, "Of course, the other party is indeed worthy of our attention."

If AOL sees this path and spends a lot of money to get in, then Qin Feng really needs to be careful.

It did not go beyond Jiang Yong's expectation. Soon, Wang Zhidong announced with great wealth that his "National Farm" would launch a major promotion. As long as you pay 1 yuan, you can get a gift package worth 99 yuan!

This is much more heroic than Qin Feng's side.

Although it is said that in the era of social media, user stickiness is the most critical. But after all, social media has just come out now, and everyone is not completely dependent on a certain social media.

In this case, it is not surprising that many users will choose to use two social media software, such as icq and qq together, and have accounts with two different software.

Therefore, in a very short period of time, the number of icq users exceeded 500,000, and the number of online users increased from a few thousand to tens of thousands.

"Haha, it's good to have money. We were too poor in the past, and Qin Feng took the advantage, so we have been suppressed by Qin Feng. Now, I want to see if Qin Feng can still suppress us.

Us!" Wang Zhidong laughed, feeling quite proud.

Now that AOL has invested US$10 million, he has ample funds to compete with Qin Feng.

Of course, these 10 million US dollars will not last long. But AOL has said that as long as its market share can increase, it will add additional funds in the future. And the conditions are very favorable. It is a stock investment, and pure capital investment will not interfere with it.

of operations.

This condition is much more favorable than the original icq condition. This also makes Wang Zhidong feel relieved.

What's more, labor is cheap now, compared to renting broadband lines, etc., and because Qin Feng introduced cable modems in advance, which is an extremely mature technology in the United States, the price is cheap. Now, his monthly human resource costs are

Various operating costs, etc., are only over one million yuan.

After all, this is a high-tech company, an IT company, an Internet company, and icq is imported. The portal website only needs a few college students who can program. As for the content, just find some editors.

All of this adds up to little operating cost.

He is not like Qin Feng, who has to build everything by himself, and Qin Feng is very ambitious and hires many programmers, operating officers and other talents.

With 10 million US dollars, Wang Zhidong can burn it for a year or two without any problem. As long as the market picks up, AOL can invest hundreds of millions of US dollars in the future, and AOL's funds will not be fun.

But that was enough for him to stare Qin Feng to death.

Therefore, Wang Zhidong is very playful.

In the future, he will launch a 1 yuan gift package event once a week. Each time, it is worth 99 yuan. He wants to see how long Qin Feng can last.

Qin Feng has not yet made any response, and Ding Sanshi has also made a major announcement.

Ding Sanshi officially promoted to the outside world and reached a strategic cooperation alliance with Microsoft.

Ding Sanshi will launch a larger online game service, and at the same time, MSN will be upgraded to launch a new, more concise and efficient social software to serve everyone, and will be compatible with Microsoft's Windows system.

Microsoft will officially launch the new win98 operating system on June 5 this summer, and by then, it will have built-in new msn social software to provide all users with more complete social services.

This news will undoubtedly make the already hot Chinese Internet market even more popular.

This time, Microsoft is truly entering the social media market, and Microsoft will also enter the gaming industry.

This news makes everyone at Qin Feng alert.

win98 is coming. This is one of the most successful operating systems in the history of Microsoft. It is also an operating system that truly allows everyone to enter the beautiful computer world. It is much more successful than win95. It is an operation that truly makes everyone feel that the interface is gorgeous.

system.

Of course, there will be more successful xp systems later.

But now, win98 will be the most successful system in the next few years. It has built-in msn, which was not available before. Not only that, it also launched online game services.

Is Microsoft going to build Xbox in advance? Qin Feng remembers that Microsoft built Xbox in 2001, when it was born. It was on par with Sony's PS2 and Sega's DC.

In the end, only the Xbox and PS series were left in the world. Moreover, Microsoft also spent money from the beginning to its final success, becoming a major dominance in the home game console market. Although it is not as good as the PS series, the PS series has also surpassed them.

Unable to drive them out, they successfully carved up a large chunk of the market.

Now, is Microsoft awakening early because of its own QQ farm?

However, when Blizzard's "World of Warcraft" was so popular, Microsoft didn't want to make an online game? Or is there someone behind it pushing it?

Qin Feng pondered.

Right now in the United States, Intel headquarters.

"Qin Feng should have a headache now." Grove grinned.

During this trip to the Silicon Valley IT Forum, he successfully met with Microsoft's Ballmer and AOL's Steve Case, explaining to them the changes in China. It also contributed to their investment in China.
Chapter completed!