The diva and I cross each other

Chapter 454 Today's Headlines Online
“Toutiao? Why is Zhuoguang launching a new APP? It’s been less than half a year since Kuaishu was launched!” At the Penguin headquarters, Mr. Ma muttered to himself after seeing the advertisement for Toutiao.

"Mr. Ma, I have asked the people from Zhuoguang Technology. They said that the company has been producing this app for a long time, and the production cycle is earlier than that of Kuaishu." Mr. Liu said on the side.

"What? Earlier than Kuaishu? Doesn't this mean that this APP is the core product of Zhuoguang Technology?"

"should be."

Mr. Ma was silent. To be honest, he really didn't expect that Zhuoguang Technology actually had other core apps besides Neihan Duanzi and Kuaishu.

Mr. Liu seemed to see what Mr. Ma was thinking, and said in a serious tone: "Mr. Ma, I think Kuaishu should not be the core APP of Zhuoguang Technology."

"Why do you say that?"

“On the one hand, when we started investing, Zhuoguang Technology separated Kuaishu from the company. This behavior seemed to be a normal business practice and made it easier for us to supervise the company’s accounts.

However, Zhuoguang Technology did not subsequently connect Kuaishu's data to its own processing center. Instead, it prepared a corresponding processor for Kuaishu alone, which seemed to exclude Kuaishu from the Zhuoguang Technology system.

On the other hand, I found that Neihan Duanzi and Toutiao have many similarities. They both use the latest big data algorithm of Zhuoguang Technology as the core and deeply strengthen the push mechanism, while Kuaishu does not use the big data algorithm. "

"Old Liu, these two points alone don't seem to be enough evidence, right?"

Mr. Liu smiled and said, "It's not enough. These are just my guesses."

Mr. Ma nodded and said nothing more.

After General Manager Liu came out of General Manager Ma’s office, he immediately asked someone to keep an eye on the situation over at Zhuo Guang’s end.

Mr. Liu just didn’t say one thing, which is that his intuition tells him that Toutiao and Kuaishu are different.

The success of Kuaishu is most likely due to the fact that it was not in the plan of Zhuoguang Technology from the beginning.

Soon it was Thursday.

"Happy Match 3" also launched unlimited levels as planned.

Now the number of registered users of "Happy Match 2" in China has reached nearly million.

With such a huge user base, a small event of "Happy Match 3" will cause a huge response.

Besides, this infinite level event is not a small event. How can an event that gives out cash every day be small?
This also meant that the release of the infinite levels immediately caused a huge sensation.

The internet is full of discussions about infinite levels, and on all major social media platforms, you can see pictures showing how many levels people have completed in the infinite level game.

You should know that the sponsor for the infinite levels of "Happy Match 3" is Toutiao.

The more similar pictures are posted, the better the advertising effect of Toutiao will be.

Combined with other promotional channels, Toutiao soon became known to everyone.

On Friday, Toutiao was officially launched.

Luo Ming did not go home at night and stayed in the company, hoping to be the first to see the data from Toutiao.

At 12 o'clock sharp, Toutiao went online, and within an hour the number of download users exceeded one million.

This group of users should be the "die-hard fans" of Zhuoguang Technology. As long as Zhuoguang Technology has new products, they will choose to try them out.

At 8 o'clock the next morning, Luo Ming checked the background data as soon as he woke up. At this time, the number of downloads of Toutiao had exceeded 300 million.

Luo Ming’s target today is 500 million, which seems a bit conservative.

This is indeed the case. As of 23:59 on Friday evening, Toutiao had been downloaded 735.3 million times.

Luo Ming was very satisfied with the data.

The more than 700 million downloads were very satisfied, and during this period, Zhuoguang Technology invested nearly 5500 million in publicity.

If the "Happy Match" activities are included, that would be 7000 million in promotional funds.

The 7000 million yuan brought more than 700 million downloads, and Luo Ming felt it was worth it.

With new users, the next natural step is to retain them.

With the gold coin system in place, there shouldn't be much loss of Toutiao users in the first few days. What Luo Ming is afraid of is that users will directly uninstall Toutiao after receiving the first bonus.

In order to prevent this from happening, Luo Ming plans to directly activate the Toutiao module, hoping that these Toutiao authors can help Toutiao retain users like they did in their previous life.

Luo Ming immediately asked the company to issue a notice to recruit article authors.

At the same time, Luo Ming also asked people to contact some content creators on Neihan Duanzi who mainly use pictures and texts, hoping that they could also post a copy of the content on Neihan Duanzi on Toutiao.

The content creators of Neihan Duanzi have long been deeply connected with Neihan Duanzi, so they naturally would not refuse this request. Luo Ming then asked Li Yan to send invitations to some news self-media accounts.

However, these news self-media accounts have little interest in monetizing through Toutiao’s invitation.

Luo Ming is not in a hurry. He thinks that once these self-media people who work in the news find that they can make money from Toutiao, they will come over on their own.

But Rongmu didn't want to wait, mainly because Rongmu was worried that Toutiao account would not be able to take off for the time being, and the gold coin system was not enough to attract users, which might lead to a large number of users leaving.

In order to prevent this situation from happening again, Rongmu thought about it and decided to take a simple and crude approach, which is to turn a blind eye to some opportunistic elements in the headlines who copied the content of these news self-media accounts.

Once these news self-media accounts notice that their rights have been infringed, they will come to us soon, and then we can send someone to talk to them.

Once the deal is concluded, we can compensate these news media people.

Of course, Rong Mu would not tell Luo Ming about this.

Rongmu could never understand why Luo Ming could empathize with the working people.

Based on Luo Ming's usual style of doing things, he would definitely not agree to Rong Mu's plan.

Rong Mu also didn't want to have any unnecessary arguments with Luo Ming because of this matter. In Rong Mu's opinion, Luo Ming was not a qualified businessman. He didn't like to talk business and didn't put the interests of the company first.

For many businessmen, morality is worthless compared to profit.

Rong Mu is not that kind of businessman. Rong Mu has a moral bottom line, but Rong Mu will not be overly "merciful" like Luo Ming.

As expected, within a week, some self-media people came to Rong Mu's door and hired a lawyer to send a legal letter to Toutiao.

When Toutiao received the lawyer's letter, the company's legal department immediately reported it to Rong Mu: "Mr. Rong, this is the case. Our Toutiao, like Penguin News, only does data recommendations.

Toutiao’s findings over the past 10 days have been very good, and the data has improved very quickly, which naturally attracted the attention of content creators, so some content creators have united to send us a lawyer’s letter.”

After listening to Ying Qianlong's report, Rong Mu smiled and said, "It only took a week for them to find me. It's faster than I thought!"

"Mr. Rong, are we going to prepare for a lawsuit?" Ying Qianlong asked tentatively.

"No, these content creators are very important to the development of Toutiao. Lawyer Ying, you and my secretary should handle this matter! She knows what to do."

The next day, in a luxurious box of a five-star hotel in Shanghai, a dozen people were sitting inside and discussing something in low voices.

At 12 noon, after Song Yue and Ying Qianlong came to the box together, the box immediately became quiet.

Song Yue walked up to the crowd and said with a smile: "Hello everyone, I am Song Yue, the assistant to Rong Murong, the CEO of Zhuoguang Technology. I came here today to completely resolve the content copyright dispute between everyone here and Toutiao."

Everyone was shocked when they heard this. They didn't expect that CEO Zhuo Guang's assistant would show up in person.

The size of Zhuoguang is now different from before. With the popularity of its two apps, Zhuoguang has become a well-deserved first-tier Internet company.

As the assistant to the CEO of Zhuoguang Technology, Song Yue's status is quite different from those small self-media people.

But no matter what, this is a modern society. Even if there is a difference in status, it is not necessary to be too afraid of Song Yue, and now Zhuo Guang is the one who is in the wrong.

So a middle-aged man wearing glasses asked, "Assistant Song, how do you want to solve this? Do you want to publicly apologize to us and give us compensation?"

Song Yue shook her head and said, "That's impossible. This will damage our company's corporate image. Besides, your works were not stolen by Toutiao. They were copied by others. At most, we can be considered to have failed to supervise them."

"Then what else is there to talk about?"

"You can't say that. I came here today on the orders of President Rong to solve the problem." Song Yue asked while looking at everyone.

"How can we solve this problem if you refuse to compensate us?"

Hearing this, Song Yue and Ying Qianlong both laughed. These people didn't want an apology, they just wanted compensation, which was easy.

To put it bluntly, these self-media people don’t want to do anything to Toutiao, they just want to get some money from Toutiao.

Since they care about money, that's easy to say.

When these self-media people saw the smiles of Song Yue and Ying Qianlong, they all felt something was wrong. Among the dozen or so self-media people, the man who looked like the organizer sitting in the middle took the initiative to speak: "Ahem! Assistant Song, we all know that with the current size of your company, you will not apologize to us.

Our original purpose was not to ask you to apologize, we just wanted to get compensation for infringement. Even if it is like what Assistant Song said, it was not Toutiao that officially plagiarized our work, but your company still has to bear the responsibility of supervision, right? "

"I have never denied this from the beginning. I said that our company is responsible for poor supervision." Song Yue replied in a flat tone.

"In that case, Assistant Song, stop hiding things and just say what you want to say!" The man didn't want to argue with Song Yue anymore, so he said directly.

(End of this chapter)