The war on the Internet without smoke

Today's internet, like renting a house, has been occupied by all kinds. On the Internet, firmly guarding their respective areas of competitive advantage, has been difficult to meet their needs. In the game of such a market fire, the protagonists in the hand are starting to use other channels, such as investment. Dabble ambition into a larger area. What about the war?

Tencent and 360: War without smoke

Since Tencent and the 360 famous 3Q War, 360 occasion entered the NYSE, turned into a rival to Tencent's listed companies, and Tencent seems to have dawned on the road to a vigorous open. For Tencent, in the war of great losses, he realized how important it was to have "allies" in the internet industry.

The security field is the cause of the war, so Tencent shares Jinshan network will not be surprised, Jinshan Network CEO Fu has been hailed as the 360 "treason will", in the Tencent incidentally into the Stock Mountain Network parent company Jinshan Software, the obvious hostile camp formation. Then in E-commerce, Tencent investment in a breath of Group F, the Diamond, good music buy, in different types of vertical electric dealers occupy a position.

Mobile Internet is no doubt the next round of hot spots, and in the past 1.5 of the time, Tencent has invested at least 4 mobile gaming companies, but also high-profile investment in innovative workshops, coupled with its own products in the mobile Internet extension, Tencent on the mobile internet has been the development of the strength to be reckoned with.

Compared to Tencent's aggressive investment, the 360 lack appears to be a little low-key. According to the disclosure of information, over the past year, 360 only invested in Master Lu, the window of the world, such as desktop-based client products, not related to other industries. While in the mobile internet sector, although 360 set up a dedicated investment unit to focus on mobile internet, there are no projects disclosed.

Lei and Zhou: The story of two men

The two are Hubei people, leaving their successful creation or deep participation in the company, the same as the earliest, most popular entrepreneurs welcome Angel investment, and then all of their "vote" to the project. There is a common principle of investment "not familiar do not do".

Some media have disclosed that the two people have been in the investment for many years old friends, on a project to listen to each other's views. It is said that Zhou think Jinshan is the software industry Whampoa Military Academy, just the company ship disaster turned around, so that the quality of the programmers of Jinshan high, value the talent from Jinshan, and lei that Zhou personal gas field hindered the subordinates play, but bring out the people more executive power, can independently, and therefore also value from the Zhou Department of the GAN.

Two people in the investment relationship is also linked to the 2006 Lei era of Jinshan, Agent Flint Software development of the "Shui Men Q biography", Flint Software strategy is Zhou shareholders. 2007 Jinshan hope to buy fast travel, but eventually fast travel to accept the price of Zhou. In the same year, Zhou, Lei also acquired online voice Group chat tool Ispead, accounted for 12.86% of the shares.

But the two people's Fu in a person's exception-----------

Fu has been the founder of 360 security software, has been Zhou very valued and pushed outwards, but the relationship between two people quickly deteriorated, the specific reasons for many versions, many and in anti-virus products on the contradictions and personality issues. Fu left 360 in 2008, and then started a graphic processing company that could be a cow.

Later can be done to do the cow into the security field, doing to do with the Jinshan network merge, this is behind the fu back to the security field, it is lei. How bad is the relationship between Zhou and Fu? In front of Zhou can mention Jinshan, can mention Tencent, but can not mention Fu, this will make him particularly angry.

In the 3Q war, MA once said on Weibo, "Lei told me last night that all of Jinshan game was 360 intercept start, very terrible cloud retaliation." Only those who have been caught in the attack understand this rage! " Although the news was quickly removed, Lei's attitude in the two hostile camps was clear. As for the relationship between Lei and Zhou now, only they know.

Shanda and Tencent: Absolute holdings and participation in investment

Also in the past year in the field of investment active companies, Shanda, Tencent in the investment is not the same. The core point is that Shanda for investment companies require absolute holding, most of them have 100% control, the least to control 51%. And Tencent is more equity participation, in addition to Kingsoft Software become the largest shareholder, but also did not emphasize control.

This is also related to Tencent's reflections after the 3Q War. Tencent's investment strategy is more than the layout of various industries, and does not necessarily require the various investment companies have a particularly large relationship. And Shanda all the investment, is around its family entertainment strategy, and its investment in the various subsidiaries, will have a variety of business dealings, or even form an independent industrial chain.

For example, Shanda literature's popular novel "The Stars Change", from the grand game adapted into a net, and then from the Chinese shadow of the era of film adaptation. Future distribution can be done by the flourishing sun and then aired on the 酷6网. Of course, this is not a closed industrial chain, there will be other companies involved, but by the grand formation of the power of the one-stop effect can not be ignored.

If you want to say Tencent and Shanda investment in common, it is in the online games industry sustainable layout.

The mochi of Shanda Investment is the international game distribution platform, the vault is the game developer, the eyedentity is the Korean game research and development manufacturer, as well as the online board games, the webpage game company and so on. The total investment in this area in the past 1.5 is about $1.09 billion.

Tencent in the Web game has invested in the game Valley, online games are riot games and a south-East Asian Games company, and Grand difference is, Tencent has invested in several mobile gaming companies, which have a lot of investment undisclosed amount, but the total minimum of 23 billion dollars.

Grand Absolute Holding has revealed some negative effects, many companies out of the news, but the absolute control is conducive to the grand integration of the industrial chain. Will Shanda and Tencent have direct positive competition in the future? At least at the level of online gaming is certainly more intense.