As evening approaches, the acquisition negotiations come to an end.

The whole process lasted for nearly ten hours, which was really a rare dispute.

Of course, the result is probably much more important than the process. WeChat will take over whatsapp, and Luzhou is more at ease with the expansion of this overseas market.

In the next time, the acquisition matters only need to be carried out step by step.

Among them, Sequoia first provided a B+ round financing of US$55 million to WeXun before the New Year as a special fund for the acquisition at this time. WeXun needs to add 27.5 million new shares to Sequoia.

Immediately followed by the disposal of whatsapp shares. All of Sequoia's holdings were converted into new shares of WeXun, with an amount of 15 million shares.

Founders Combe and Acton hold 50% in cash and 50% in shares. Wexun will pay a total of US$60 million and 30 million shares to the two. In the next fiscal year, Wexun will also pay options of varying amounts to two people.

After the entire transaction was completed, Sequoia held more than 57.5 million shares of WeXun shares, which was quite large in number, which was more than Cheng Xuyuan, the team's middle school, but in terms of proportion, it was less than 5%.

Some people think it is expensive, but if you look at it in the future, it will be a bargain.

If it weren't for whatsapp, how could Luzhou easily put the sequoia in?

At the end of December, the entire transaction was settled. Wechat took this opportunity to make an official announcement.

WeChat acquired the overseas communications app whatsapp for US$150 million!

WeChat Huaxia has 110 million users, WeChat overseas users 50 million, and whatsapp 50 million users!

This is the rhythm of 200 million users a year and a half! Many of the peers couldn't help but be terrified.

As soon as the news came out, Ma Huateng was so angry that Lu Zhou really got a good cabbage!

At that time, Penguin Whatsapp failed to acquire, M Huateng immediately ordered the M&A Investment Department to continue looking for it, and finally acquired shares in a Korean communications application called kakao.

How much did it cost? 60 million US dollars, 13% of the shares, the number of users is going to have a quote of nearly 400 million US dollars! Compared with Luzhou's operation, it is really expensive.

Of course, Ma Huateng believes that even if we put the road to talk, it would be really not much better. Because in the overseas market layout of WeChat, Japan and South Korea are late in entry and are not as developed as local communication applications.

WeChat’s bid for whatsapp is only US$150 million, because in Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe and other regions, whatsapp and WeChat are really fighting. The two companies are beneficial to joining each other and can be regarded as strategic partnerships.

The next day.

After carefully studying and kakao and line in Japan and South Korea, Zhang Xiaolong immediately found Ma Huateng. These two communication application companies across the sea have some unique product functions, such as emoticons stores.

This is quite a two-dimensional function, which supports a very large part of the revenue of the two companies.

Seeing how Weixun cannot catch up and the lack of resources cannot arrive for a long time, Zhang Xiaolong naturally has to find a way to change his tricks. Following the exhaust of Weixun, if you can't catch up, you may be surprised if you change your other company?

Once Ma Huateng made the decision, in just a few days, he immediately launched an emoticon package store on WeChat, which included various low-priced and well-made emoticon packages. According to Zhang Xiaolong's vision, he would even learn from Japan and South Korea in the future and introduce a group of painters to enter. It is not impossible to draw emoticon packages and sell them to share the money.

But within two days, WeChat launched a custom emoticon package system. The system has built-in few emoticons, including the famous "Yao Ming Face", "Jackie Cheung" and "Director Jin"...

Is there a charge for emoticons?! To be honest, it can be played in Japan and South Korea. The various demonic expressions of Weixun made Ma Huateng a little doubted about his life.

"People nowadays like this?"

I don’t know if the world is getting too fast or if I am really old.

Seeing his scarf, WeChat friends circle, and QQ space was dominated by these various magical expressions, he awkwardly replied to Zhang Xiaolong: The store is closed, you can customize the expression, make one.

At this point, the WeChat emoticon package store has only been around for one week, and it is a waste of time.

Ma Huateng couldn't help but think that there is a certain reason why WeChat News will not go to the fight between Japan and South Korea and the United States.

And just less than a few days before 2012, Menggu threw several bombs out.

First, there is the Seven Star Laboratory Wolong, which is serialized in several top international computer journals with lightning speed.

"A new deep learning network that inherits LE5 and is based on the 2001 Relu paper..."

“Deep learning has significantly improved computer vision…”

A few days later, Qixing launched another so-called "artificial intelligence framework" and "longyan"!

As for what this is called, it is probably because most people don’t know what this thing can be used for.

It is not easy to publish content in top journals, which indirectly illustrates Menggu's R&D level and ability. However, just this "longyan" has gimmicks but no practical use. This R&D is somewhat a bit of a waste of time. Many people think so.

However, this Longyan incident has attracted enough attention in its peers. Many companies with financial strength have formed a temporary working group to study the "artificial intelligence framework" opened by Menggu.

But I don’t know if I don’t look at it, and I’ll be shocked when I see it.

As of today, the technology stacks of different companies vary greatly between China Internet companies. But no matter how you say it, this technology is just a tool to solve problems. In Internet companies, there are actually deep learning that uses machine learning and deep learning, but it is just a difficult to judge the size.

I’m afraid that if this “longyan” is really useful, people will be able to think of artificial intelligence in the future, and the only standard that people can think of is Menggu.

Users on the market all use "longyan". Should new manufacturers be compatible or incompatible?

Anyone with a discerning eye has already seen that the road is quite a big goal!

It hasn't been long since time passed, and the pace of history has quietly crossed the threshold of 2012.

The L integrated by Longyan achieved the large-scale image visual challenge held by Gu Ge that year with a significant advantage!

At this time, Longan's achievements have attracted great attention from the academic and industrial circles, because there are so many positions in the second place, and the recognition rate is so high! This is not far from commercial use!

Who is the second place?

The founder of deep learning theory, chief scientist of Gu Ge's artificial intelligence research team...

Countless foreign online media were shocked, but it was really a ghost. The laboratory of an unknown Chinese Internet company inexplicably defeated Gu Ge's artificial intelligence research team?!

The frightened foreign online media hurriedly dug out various hot news, and finally dug out one: Brother Gu had intended to acquire this laboratory.

As for the ravaged "God" himself, Gu Ge's chief scientist was generous. He not only highly praised the seven-star longan, but also admitted that he had the opportunity to cooperate with him.

Anyway, this is what Lu Zhou is so embarrassing, because many of his thoughts are the conclusions of this great master's later achievements.

The academic and industrial circles are in trouble anyway, and it is difficult for ordinary people to understand.

Lu Zhou sighed deeply, maybe, this is just one betago.
Chapter completed!