Chapter 326 Dispute

Chapter 326 Dispute

Chapter 326 Dispute
Zhai Yifei began his own imitation crime.

He picked NetQin, which has a long history of bad deeds, as an example to illustrate malicious advertising. He used the authoritative information exposed on March 3 to talk about the evil deeds of security vendors, explained the adverse environment currently faced by mobile Internet users, and called on real security vendors to take action.

Ad Killer has been online for only half a month, and it has gained more than 200 million users before large-scale promotion began, and has entered the top ten categories of multiple app stores. The demand is quite obvious.

This public appeal is in line with the trend and has drawn clear boundaries, emphasizing that it is targeting extremely bad and destructive malicious advertisements. It is also a hope that both the appeal's living space and dissemination channels will be larger.

NetQin is a typical case. In addition to its embezzlement, Zhai Yifei also discovered a problem during the research process: NetQin's market share is likely to be far less than it claims.

As for how little...

Zhai Yifei cited research from several third-party organizations and believed that perhaps 80% of its market share was fraudulent.

When he told his boss about this conclusion, he only saw an inexplicable smile on Mr. Yu's face and heard a sigh.

"It's really surprising. NetQin is a listed company."

Zhai Yifei feels that the more listed a company is, the easier it is to be targeted.

As expected, being singled out this time angered NetQin, making it angry... and expressing its anger.

NetQin has previously guided its users to uninstall Ad Buster, but other than that, it has no other effective means of competition. It has no influence on the channels, and in fact does not have much influence on the market.

Therefore, this time we can only target the real owner.

Behind Ad Killer is Carbon Silicon Data Company, and behind Carbon Silicon Data Company is Yu Xing.

NetQin's boss Lin Yu had met Yu Xing once before in Shanghai, and both companies were going to go public overseas this year. Moreover, Ad Killer was just a subsidiary of Yu's company.

Lin Yu called Yu Xing directly and asked, "Boss Yu, what do you mean? Do you have a problem with me? Or did I offend you in some way? You created an advertising killer to mess with us, right?"

Yu Xing was not too surprised to receive Lin Yu's call, and was quite happy that the other party had such an attitude. He could also give a direct reply: "I know about Ad Buster, but I am mainly an investor. Their team is doing the work, but I think it is done well. Does NetQin need to find its own problems?"

Lin Yu became even angrier: "Boss Yu, let's put aside the right and wrong of the matter. Do you know what you are doing?"

Yu Xing was puzzled: "What kind?"

"We are both companies listed in the United States. You must know the listing environment this year. The reputation of Chinese concept stocks is also facing challenges this year." Lin Yu was distressed. "You are attacking Chinese concept stocks. What's the difference between you and Guo Shanfeng?"

Yu Xing opened his mouth but failed to answer the question immediately.

Seeing that the other party was speechless, Lin Yu raised his voice further: "Chinese concept stocks are a whole overseas. If you attack Chinese concept stocks, you are attacking yourself! Mr. Yu, since you said that only the team below is working on it, why do you have to do such a thing that will make your relatives sad and your enemies happy for a mere small project!?"

Yu Xing recalled what he had said to Lin Yu the last time he met him, and he continued in a similar tone, asking, "Boss Lin, let me ask you, does your company run any malicious ads?"

Lin Yu asked back: "What's the point of talking about this? Do you really have to keep pestering me?"

Yu Xing asked again: "Is there any?"

Lin Yu suppressed his anger and said, "Yes, so what? No, so what?"

"If yes, then there's no need to talk about it. If not, I'll apologize to you and stop the project." Yu Xing stated his position.

When Lin Yu heard this, he said firmly, "No!"

Yu Xing: “…”

He didn't expect that the other party would lie with open eyes. Looking back on the past, this was the first time he had encountered such a thing.

Seeing that there was no sound on the other end of the phone again, Lin Yu further said: "Stop the project and apologize, for the sake of Chinese concept stocks, for the overall environment, and for yourself."

Yu Xing recovered from his surprise, and upon hearing such a request, he laughed and cursed, "Fuck you."

Then he ended the call.

Lin Yu hung up the phone and never called again.

That evening, NetQin issued a statement on its official website, firstly denying the existence of malicious advertising, and secondly severely condemning "Ad Killer" for requesting excessive permissions on users' mobile phones.

The next day, NetQin's lawyer's letter was sent to Bai Xiaosheng of Soho International.

Yu Xing was a little puzzled when he received the call and asked his secretary: "Did you send it to the wrong address?"

"It wasn't a mistake. I sent two emails, one to Carbon Silicon Data and the other to Bai Xiaosheng, requesting the forum to delete the false information." Zhang Yangxu reported the situation.

"Oh, then just post it on the wall as usual." Yu Xing understood. The Bai Xiaosheng Forum was also quite active in this matter and was indeed qualified to receive the letter.

Zhang Yangxu said cautiously: "Boss Yu, the office received a call from there, saying that they will file a lawsuit."

Yu Xing asked, "Really?"

Zhang Yangxu replied: "It sounds like what the other side said is true."

Yu Xing thought for a few seconds and said, "Okay, that's it."

Zhang Yangxu listened to the busy tone on the phone, not knowing what "Let it be" meant. After thinking it over, he decided to post the lawyer's letter on the wall first.

Speaking of which, the wall in the president's office is quite amazing. It is covered with many lawyers' letters and the boss's overseas doctoral degree. Whenever a new guest enters this office, he or she will express surprise.

In just three days, NetQin had new moves. First, it indeed filed a lawsuit against Carbon Silicon Data Corporation. Second, it used the company it held shares to create a dispute with Bai Xiaosheng over recruitment and sought interviews from the media.

Bai Xiaosheng is a listed company whose main revenue-generating business is the recruitment market. Regardless of the nature of the dispute, it will cause some waves once the relevant press release is purchased.

But this is just a minor ripple.

Zhai Yifei was not at all worried about his company being sued, but he felt a little apologetic after seeing Bai Xiaosheng's business being involved.

"Boss Yu, should I... stop here for a moment?"

Yu Xing laughed dumbly: "We have only just started, why should we stop?"

"The main reason is that the effect is not that obvious." Zhai Yifei said thoughtfully, "Compared to our increase in the first two weeks, it is only a 10%-20% increase, and this does not include the addition of our own publicity efforts."

"It's not that easy to copycat, right? NetQin is not like Penguin. They are too far apart." Yu Xing laughed, "Besides, 360 had adequately warmed up that time. Your dispute is at most a dispute in the security software industry. Have you seen any disputes between 360 and Rising over a series of antivirus software that have gone beyond the circle?"

Zhai Yifei was quite excited about his imitation at first, but he calmed down after seeing the effect. He listened to his boss and said again: "Then let's just ignore it and not mention it anymore? We will not speak out on Weibo or Bai Xiaosheng either."

Yu Xing said, "Just do what you originally wanted. Just handle it normally. Didn't you also say that NetQin's market share is not that big? Just go through the process. Don't worry about this matter, and don't worry about Bai Xiaosheng."

Zhai Yifei agreed and discussed the operation of this matter with the new CEO Zhong Zhiling. Through this incident, he felt more and more that his attention should be on the management of the technical team.

Zhong Zhiling was not dissatisfied with the fact that this was the first thing he faced after becoming the CEO of Carbon Silicon Data. He just felt that he needed to continue observing. It would be fine as long as the development of Ad Killer was not affected. Know-it-alls were not within his job scope.

As Yu Xing said, the dispute between NetQin and AdKiller did not go beyond the circle. What really attracted attention was Yu Xing's control over AdKiller and he was a business figure who was praised for its operations.

NetQin sued Carbon Silicon Data Company and fabricated the Bai Xiaosheng dispute, but these are not big news.

On November 11, Cai Haoyu of Zhejiang Industrial Investment Group led his team to visit Lingang again.

His attitude this time was very clear. He was willing to participate in the financing of Carbon Silicon Company, but the amount was reduced compared to the 2000 million US dollars invested in the electric car project, and he could only take out 1000 million US dollars.

Carbon Silicon's software matrix is ​​about to be promoted, and it's time to spend money.

Yu Xing felt that 1000 million US dollars was a bit too little, so he asked Zhong Zhiling to discuss the matter with Cai Haoyu, and pointed out that the number of users of "Ad Killer" had exceeded 300 million, and the number of users of "Laugh Bar", which was renamed from "Tongle", also exceeded 200 million, and other online software also had starting data of hundreds of thousands.

Cai Haoyu only met Mr. Yu once on the first day, and then talked with Zhong Zhiling about financing.

In the end, both sides made concessions on the scale of financing. Zhejiang Industrial Investment put up $1500 million, and Carbon Silicon Data Company sold 12% of its equity. Both sides completed the first round of financing in a brief manner.

"Mr. Cai, Carbon Silicon Data will do its best." Yu Xing appeared after the cooperation was finalized. He expressed his position first and then talked about money. "But the company's promotion should cost more. Do you want to participate in the second round next year?"

Cai Haoyu didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Second round next year? Then you have to have 5000 million users next year before calling me."

Yu Xing smiled and shook hands. He was not sure how big the scale could be. Anyway, the speed of mobile Internet projects was getting faster and faster.

Just as Zhejiang Industrial Investment reached a cooperation agreement, Liu Jiankai, the company's external traffic diversion consultant, received a call from his former employer Xu Xin.

"Are you helping Carbon Silicon Data?" Xu Xin asked directly.

When Liu Jiankai heard Mr. Xu's question, he subconsciously felt guilty. In order to help Carbon Silicon Company divert traffic to its software matrix, he had often used Mr. Xu's name to speak toughly.

He coughed and said, "Well, yes, I am doing something to help Mr. Yu."

"How many users does Ad Buster have? What do you think of his model of diverting traffic to projects?" Xu Xin felt that Liu Jiankai's tone was a bit strange, but did not think much about it. He was mainly concerned about the project.

"340 million users, um, many users are spreading Ad Buster spontaneously. This software has not yet been connected to 'Latest Hotspots'. It is very simple and convenient to use now." Liu Jiankai replied, "The accumulation of users for Latest Hotspots is still relatively traditional. Well, I think it can be described as 'traditional'. It's a bit like when WeChat was created. We didn't try our best to promote it. I guess we wanted to wait for the traffic of other software to increase before starting."

"Boss Xu, as for the information business..."

Liu Jiankai fell into deep thought. He still kept the habits he had when he was working at Capital Today. Moreover, when he went out to communicate with small and medium-sized software companies recently, he used the same approach: Where is your market opportunity? How big is the opportunity? Why you?
So, this is also his thinking when he looks at Carbon Silicon Data.

"Mr. Xu, if I were still in the company, I would think that Carbon Silicon's financing price was too high. There are many factors, which are the ones we talked about in the past." Liu Jiankai answered sincerely, "But now as an outsider, I have a very obvious feeling that... the speed of projects in the industry is too fast."

He continued, "In the past month, I have visited about 10 companies that make apps. I was surprised that they really started as soon as they had an idea and were able to achieve a certain scale. I don't know whether this kind of 'speed' is important, but Mr. Yu seems to think it is very important."

After thinking for a while, Xu Xin expressed his concerns: "Mr. Yu is working on electric vehicles, and he is the one who selected the people to work on the carbon silicon data side."

Liu Jiankai agreed: "Yes, so Carbon Silicon Data did make some concessions in this round of financing. It gave an extra 2% of the shares and did not insist on $2000 million."

Xu Xin was surprised: "Wait, wait! Carbon Silicon Data's first round of financing has ended? From whom did you raise the money?"

"You don't know?" Liu Jiankai thought that Mr. Xu came to ask him about the first round of financing. "It was Zhejiang Industrial Investment, led by Cai Haoyu. The discussion was just concluded two days ago."

Xu Xin: “…”

She was still struggling with it here, but it was over there.

Liu Jiankai couldn't help but laugh and said, "This is delicious..."

Xu Xin knew what this sentence was and interrupted, "Huh?"

Liu Jiankai immediately shut up. The former boss still had influence on him. Besides, he often mentioned her when doing things now...

He could only say, "The first round is over. Mr. Yu will not raise funds for the time being. He also needs to adjust based on the promotion results. I think Mr. Yu's energy allocation is okay. Bai Xiaosheng is basically left to Liu Hao. Carbon Silicon Data Company discusses the situation in stages. He mainly handles Beta Automotive's affairs on a daily basis."

Xu Xin finally complained: "Beta Motors, why doesn't he name it Shuke Motors?"

She ended the call, put down her phone, and stopped worrying about it. Now that this round was over, she would see the results and see whether Yu Xing's operation could make a splash in the traditional information field.

Xu Xin felt that even if it was possible, the upper limit would not be much higher than that of Bai Xiaosheng, a listed company, and there would still be opportunities for subsequent financing.

On November 11, the market research and related revenue information about NetQin had been collected almost completely.

Liu Wanying called Yu Xing to inform him that he could choose a day to cross the mountain.

Yu Xing made a new request on the phone: "Xiaoying, please do me a favor this time and criticize the American company Fisker in your research report. I will send you an email later with information about its extended-range electric vehicle development. I will see if I can get some talent and patents from it."

The American company Fisker launched its first model this year, which also adopts the extended-range technology route, but the price is as high as US$10 and the current market response is very poor.

Yu Xing was not familiar with this company before. He became interested in it after seeing Yao Yanghui's report. Since he had never heard much about it, its subsequent development was naturally not good and it was very likely to have gone bankrupt.

He once suspected that this was a PPT company, but after learning more about it, he felt that there was still room for profit.

Therefore, this time, let’s take advantage of the short selling of NetQin to talk about new energy companies represented by this American company. After all, Guoshanfeng is a research organization.

Liu Wanying understood what Boss Yu meant and asked, "Is this okay?"

"It's just a talk. It's not listed yet. Can't our research company talk about emerging industries? Not only it, there are other companies in Europe. We can talk about them together this time." Yu Xing said confidently.

Liu Wanying said, "Then each of us will do half of the report this time. I am not familiar with this part, so you can handle the rest by yourself."

Yu Xing said confidently: "No problem."

When it comes to understanding the domestic electric vehicle supply chain, Silicon Carbon Group is undoubtedly number one. Looking at the development of the global electric vehicle industry, although it cannot be said to be number one, it is also one of the groups of people who have a deep understanding.

(End of this chapter)