kingnovel Chapter 452: Today's headlines are online, where is Mr. Zhang's future? (Please send me a
Chapter 452: Today's headlines are online, where is Mr. Zhang's future? (Please send me a
Future Technology Group is unique in the domestic semiconductor industry with its independently developed EDA software and advanced wafer and chip manufacturing production lines.
Currently, in the semiconductor field, the group mainly develops and produces automotive chips.
Due to limited resources and energy, the Group has not yet entered the two more complex and competitive fields of mobile processors and computer processors.
As the world's leading chip design company, Gaotong dominates the field of mobile processors, but it does not produce traditional desktop or laptop CPUs.
Each company has its own unique market positioning and development strategy.
At present, the global computer processor market is mainly dominated by several giants: Intel, AMD, IBM, Pingguo and NVIDIA.
These companies have significant advantages in technology accumulation and market share.
In the field of mobile processors, the main players include Gaotong, Pingguo, Sixing, Liantek, Huawei and other companies, and the competition is equally fierce.
Huawei's situation is rather special. Although it has strong R&D capabilities, it does not own core manufacturing equipment such as lithography machines.
There is no way, they won’t sell it to Huaguo Continent.
Its chip production mainly relies on foundry manufacturers such as JSMC, Fourstar Electronics, and Zhongxin International.
Among them, only Zhongxin is from mainland China and is not under overseas control.
However, Zhongxin does not have high-end lithography machines and can only produce mid- and low-end chips.
This huge market cake is not only lucrative, but also a technological field that the country urgently needs to break through.
If Future Technology Group is able to produce mobile processors and is fully capable of accepting OEM orders from domestic mobile phone manufacturers, this will be a huge business opportunity.
Therefore, Hao Qiang also intends to get involved in mobile processors.
As for computer processors, there is really no way to do it. At least at present, we do not have the ability and energy to tinker with it.
This requires long-term technological accumulation and huge investment, and cannot be achieved overnight.
Building on existing advantages and steadily expanding into new areas requires both ambition and practicality.
This is Hao Qiang's chip development strategy.
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As the child grows older, the little one, who is already over one year old, begins to become more independent.
Qiu Yuqing took this opportunity to devote more energy to her career.
Today, the number of employees at Luoye Zhiqiu has exceeded 150, making it a medium-sized technology company.
The company's main business directions are short video production, Internet advertising information services, and development of recommendation engine technology.
In the past two years, when Qiu Yuqing was pregnant and became a mother for the first time, the company's development did not stagnate.
During this period, Hao Qiang intervened in the company's operations at the right time.
Under his guidance, the company focused on developing a recommendation engine product based on data mining.
This product aims to accurately recommend personalized information to users through complex algorithms and massive data analysis, greatly improving the efficiency and accuracy of information acquisition.
August 1, 2011, was an important milestone in the development history of Luoye Zhiqiu Company.
On this day, the company officially launched its first software product for the general public - "Today's Headlines".
This app was launched a full year earlier than the later "Jinjing Toutiao".
The core competitiveness of "Today's Headlines" lies in its powerful recommendation engine.
Through in-depth learning and analysis of users' browsing habits and interests, the software can tailor information flows for each user and provide content that best suits their needs and interests.
This not only greatly improves the user's reading experience, but also provides advertisers with more accurate delivery channels, achieving a win-win situation for users, platforms and advertisers.
With the launch of "Today's Headlines", Luoye Zhiqiu Company officially entered the fiercely competitive mobile Internet market.
Despite facing strong competitive pressure from Internet giants, "Toutiao" achieved remarkable results within just a few days of its launch thanks to its leading technological advantages and strategy of seizing the initiative, coupled with Hao Qiang's strong recommendation and support.
User reputation quickly grew, and the number of downloads and daily active users showed explosive growth, soon breaking through the five million mark.
Seizing the opportunity, Hao Qiang has already begun planning the next development of "Today's Headlines".
He reached a strategic cooperation agreement with Jingdong Mall, planning to deeply integrate "Today's Headlines" with the e-commerce platform to achieve seamless connection between information flow and product recommendations, bringing considerable traffic and revenue growth to both parties.
Hao Qiang deeply understands the importance of having an independent media platform.
By controlling "Today's Headlines", he hopes to create an information dissemination channel that is not restricted by other media to ensure that his voice can be conveyed to the public directly and accurately.
Secondly, Hao Qiang has many dissatisfactions with the content ecology of the future short video industry.
He is determined to use the influence of "Today's Headlines" to guide the healthy development of online anchors through human intervention.
In his vision, those anchors who spread vulgar and false content, abuse animals, engage in premature love and pregnancy, engage in unscrupulous pranks, engage in monsters and demons, are suspected of tax evasion, or lack positive energy will find it difficult to obtain traffic support from the platform and may even face the punishment of having their accounts blocked.
In fact, Hao Qiang really doesn't want to get involved in this industry.
But think about the future video industry. Young people don’t want to study, they just want to be anchors and make money.
Parents who use their children's popularity to make money affect their children's healthy development and world outlook, values and outlook on life.
At first, they thought it was fun, but they were blinded by greed. How many parents could let go of their own interests? In the end, they still let their children shoot videos.
The formally developed video platforms are indeed no match for the later video platforms. Hao Qiang can only use his influence, business means and technical means to intervene.
Hao Qiang's series of actions have attracted widespread attention from all walks of life.
Many well-known media outlets have conducted in-depth analysis and reports on Hao Qiang's investment in "Today's Headlines".
Some media believe that his approach will inject new vitality into the domestic Internet industry;
Some media also believe that Hao Qiang is rich and wants to gain the right to speak in the information age and influence the direction of public opinion.
Some media also approached the issue from a technical perspective and published an article titled "The AI Algorithm Behind Today's Headlines: How Recommendation Engines Change the Way We Get Information."
The article delves into the advanced algorithms used by Today’s Headlines and the potential impact of this personalized recommendation technology on user reading habits and the information cocoon phenomenon.
These multi-angle and in-depth media reports not only increased the exposure of "Today's Headlines", but also triggered widespread public discussion on important issues such as Internet content management and algorithm ethics.
Qiu Yuqing did not expect that under Hao Qiang's management, Luoye Zhiqiu Company has transformed into a high-tech Internet company.
The rooster turns into a phoenix?!
This is a bit out of her direction.
8 month 10 day,
"Today's Headlines" has reached an important milestone.
In just ten days, the number of registered users exceeded 10 million, and the number of daily active users exceeded 2 million.
Qiu Yuqing was very excited about this achievement, and she decided to find Hao Qiang to discuss the future development direction of Luoye Zhiqiu Company.
It’s true that she is the general manager, but ultimately, Hao Qiang is the soul person who mainly guides the development of the company.
Luoye Zhiqiu Company has moved to the Pengcheng headquarters building, making it very convenient for Qiu Yuqing to find Hao Qiang. The company's employees only thought that she was Hao Qiang's partner, but they didn't expect that she was the boss's wife.
Of course, some employees guessed it.
Qiu Yuqing walked into Hao Qiang's office with ease, poured him a cup of tea skillfully, and then sat comfortably on the sofa.
At home, the two tacitly avoid discussing work and affecting the family atmosphere, but in the office, they are partners.
"Brother Qiang, the Kuaishou APP has been released. When will our short video platform be launched?" Qiu Yuqing asked straight to the point, a little anxiously.
Hao Qiang told her that the focus should be on developing short videos, but several years have passed and they still haven't been launched.
Hao Qiang didn't answer directly, but instead asked, "Wife, what do you think is the most important thing about short video platforms?"
"Of course it's content that can attract users." Qiu Yuqing answered without hesitation.
"So, where does this content come from?" Hao Qiang continued to guide.
"Of course it comes from users." Qiu Yuqing said as a matter of course.
Hao Qiang nodded and agreed: "You are right.
The low threshold and easy imitation of content are indeed one of the key factors for the success of short video platforms.
Users can easily create and publish their own videos, and this sense of participation will attract more ordinary people to join in.”
He paused and continued to explain: “However, the current situation is rather special.
Given the current performance of smartphones, high data costs, and subpar internet speeds, it will be difficult for short video platforms to truly develop on a large scale.”
Douyin was not officially launched until 2016, but its real explosive growth came after 2018.
Hao Qiang saw her thoughtfully and continued, "The biggest constraint at the moment is traffic cost.
Watching a short video will consume a lot of data, and many users will be discouraged because they are worried about the data usage.
In addition, insufficient network speed will also affect the user experience.
So, we are now facing great limitations of our times.”
Qiu Yuqing asked, "Brother Qiang, do you mean we don't need to rush to develop a short video platform?"
"It's not that there's no urgency at all," Hao Qiang explained, "We can start planning and prepare for the future.
But at this stage, we should focus on developing "Today's Headlines", especially continuously improving the recommendation engine technology and algorithm recommendation mechanism.
Only by making push notifications more precise and user experience more satisfying can we truly retain users."
He continued, "When the real opportunity for development arrives, that is, when data charges drop significantly, we can leverage the huge user base accumulated by Jinri Toutiao to quickly attract traffic and rapidly develop the short video platform.
In this way, we can gain an advantage in the fierce competition.
Look at Tengxun, they have a huge user base, so everything is easy for them.
Anyway, as long as you have a user base, you are king."
After listening to Hao Qiang's analysis, Qiu Yuqing suddenly realized: "So that's how it is, I think I understand.
What we need to do now is to lay a solid foundation and be fully prepared for future outbreaks."
Hao Qiang nodded in agreement and continued to elaborate on his point: "Yes, in the current environment, vigorously developing short video platforms is indeed a thankless task. We should focus more on improving 'Toutiao' and enhancing its core technology.
However, we can also start to try the short video field, but we must adapt to local conditions.
Taking into account the current network conditions and user habits, we can start with extremely short videos, such as content of a few seconds.
This can not only control file size and reduce download time, but also reduce users’ data consumption.”
Qiu Yuqing frowned, a little doubtful: "Will the user feel that the experience is too poor with just a few seconds of video?"
Hao Qiang understood her concerns and patiently explained: "Given the current technical conditions and network environment, this may be the best compromise.
We can think of it as a transitional stage, paving the way for longer and richer short video content in the future.
As technology advances and the network environment improves, we can gradually extend the length of videos and enrich the content formats."
Qiu Yuqing nodded thoughtfully: "I understand, this is indeed a good way to proceed step by step.
Honey, I'm leaving now. I won't disturb you from working."
She left Hao Qiang's office with satisfaction, and had already begun to paint a blueprint for Luoye Zhiqiu's bright future in her mind.
Although their offices are in the same building, Qiu Yuqing does not often come to Hao Qiang's office.
After returning to the company, Qiu Yuqing first made a PPT and then convened a management meeting to discuss the company's development strategy.
Soon, the conference room was filled with the company's senior management and technical backbones.
Qiu Yuqing stood in front of the projection screen and began her presentation with confidence.
She elaborated on the company's future development direction in detail, emphasizing the need to continue to improve the core technology of "Today's Headlines", especially the optimization of the recommendation engine and algorithm mechanism.
At the same time, she also mentioned that the company will start to layout the short video field, but will adopt a cautious and gradual strategy.
After listening to Qiu Yuqing's description, the management and technical teams all felt that the general manager's views were very forward-looking and that he had a keen insight into market trends.
The experienced core technical staff couldn't help but sigh: "Boss Qiu's ideas and Boss Hao's are exactly the same! Yeah, the strategy is the same."
Indeed, Qiu Yuqing's statement contains Hao Qiang's strategic thinking, but she also incorporates her own understanding and insights.
The management who knew about the relationship between Hao Qiang and Qiu Yuqing thought to themselves: They are a couple, maybe they had discussed it before bed, how could they not have a tacit understanding?
Of course, I dare not say these words out loud.
Luoye Zhiqiu Company has the technical and financial support of Hao Qiang, so it is easy for it to develop, and everyone is full of enthusiasm for the company's development.
Although their company does not belong to the Future Technology Group system, it still enjoys the same benefits as the Future Technology Group, but the company needs to pay fees to the Future Technology Group.
For Hao Qiang, it was just a transfer of funds from the left hand to the right hand.
Another week passed,
Today, Toutiao and Jingdong Mall officially cooperated and became related to each other.
Today, Toutiao has 2000 million users and more than 400 million daily active users, showing rapid development.
This was nothing for Tengxun. WeChat was officially launched on January 21, 2011, and by the end of 2011, the number of users had reached 50 million.
The number of active accounts of QQ has reached 7.21 million, and Toutiao cannot compare with it today.
As one of the four major portals in China, Wangyi has more than 2 million email users.
By the end of 2011, the total number of Internet users in China reached 5.13 million.
So, there are not many Toutiao users today.
However, it has only been online for half a month, and it is already very good to have reached 20 million users.
Although Wangyi has 200 million email users, the number of daily active users who frequently browse the platform should be around 10 million.
Now, Toutiao has joined in and is competing with the four major portals for users.
Of course, many users browse the four major portals at the same time.
Jinjing Toutiao, its predecessor, went online in 2012. By the end of 2013, its daily active users were probably around 100 million to 200 million.
On March 3, 2014, the number of daily active users exceeded 500 million.
On June 2015, the number of daily active users exceeded 30 million.
In 2017, the number of daily active users exceeded 1.2 million.
After 2020, it will definitely exceed 2 million.
At present, Toutiao has just been online for half a month, and its daily active users have exceeded 400 million, which has exceeded Jinjing Toutiao in 2014.
But Hao Qiang and Qiu Yuqing also understood that if they didn't move forward, they would fall behind.
Content updates and technological developments must keep up, otherwise, it will definitely not be able to compare with Jinjing Toutiao in its previous life.
Speaking of this platform, we have to mention Zhang Ming.
A few years ago, after leaving COOL, he joined HiNei.com and Fanfou, founded by Wang Xin.
Here he mastered how to conduct information distribution business and realized that changes in information architecture would bring about a new way of information circulation.
Later, when he was the CEO of Jiujiufang.com, he began to get involved in mobile development and realized that there was a greater demand for personalized information recommendations on mobile phones.
He had originally planned to quit his job and start his own business at the end of this year, but he never expected that someone would share the same idea as him and create Toutiao!
I go!
And this person is the world's richest man, Hao Qiang!
Wouldn’t it be better to call it Jinjing Headlines?
However, when he checked, he found that Jinjing Toutiao had also been registered by Luoye Zhiqiu Company.
Come on!
After seeing that Hao Qiang had invested in Toutiao, Zhang Ming no longer had any idea of starting a company of this type.
There's no way. Someone got there first, and they're rich. I can't beat them.
Then I can only find another way. It seems that video websites are also good?