"You want to merge and send them to Shift. I won't have any comments here. But I have sent someone to ask before. They don't agree to the merger. If you want to acquire them, you can talk to them yourself." Ma Huateng said.

Wang Xing said: "If they don't agree, then Mr. Ma is still going to give them a link on QQ?"

The reason why Meituan intends to join Tengxun is because the traffic entrance is at an absolute disadvantage in the competition with Today's Preferred. After cooperating with Dianping, introducing Tengxun's capital can make Tengxun a major shareholder of Meituan and obtain core recommendations in QQ positions, which is naturally natural.

But Flash Express has always been Tengxun’s main strategic partner. Over the years, with their own Tengxun’s support, they have also gained a lot in the takeaway market and have competitive relationships with Meituan in many regions.

Now if both companies belong to Tengxun, Tengxun can only choose one of them, at least the high-quality location on QQ can only be given to one.

Ma Huateng said: "QQ will not remove the links of flash sends for the time being, because if we do this, it is very likely that the flash sends will be forced to vote on Toutiao or Alibaba or even Baidu. Even if the final result is unchanged, we will have to delay for a while.

However, Meituan has more advantages in terms of location and traffic arrangements.”

In the past two years, QQ has also begun to learn some of Quxin's business models. In the past, QQ has been constantly adding various links to QQ, but because of too many business, QQ has become extremely bloated.

However, the emergence of Quxin's official account has brought a perfect solution to this problem. Only those who follow will receive messages. This allows every user to only send links that users like, and is much more efficient than links on a bunch of secondary pages.

If most of the links are gone, the remaining small amount of traffic will increase significantly. Flash delivery was once in this location, and there is also traffic on the official account.

Now that Meituan joins, it will naturally be placed in the front of the official account. At the same time, QQ will also push traffic separately on the official account.

Wang Xing thought for a while and nodded and said, "Okay, the rest depends on ourselves. Mr. Ma, the focus of Toutiao seems to be on Pinduoduo now. Zhou Yujie wants to open up offline logistics channels. Should we take the opportunity to get a big subsidy in the takeaway field? Let's interfere with Toutiao?"

Ma Huateng thought for a while and said, "If you think doing this will be beneficial to the development of Meituan and you can hit Toutiao by the way, then you can try it, otherwise there is no need. We compete with Toutiao for capital, and the only one who will make a profit in the end will be Alibaba!"

"That's true." Wang Xing nodded and fell silent.

With the development of mobile Internet, in addition to the former Big Three Baidu, Alibaba and Tengxun, the Internet now has to join the headlines.

In terms of historical precipitation, Toutiao is definitely not as good as Bat, but now it is developing very rapidly in various fields, with almost no rivals in several major industries.

Toutiao, which monopolizes user time, Quxin, which controls some social networking and payments, Toutiao, which has strong offline capabilities, Didi, one of the three giants of online car-hailing, and the game business with very powerful monetization capabilities, have formed a link between Toutiao from traffic entrance to monetization channels.

But relatively speaking, Toutiao's traffic is still greater than the channel. Now Toutiao is fully committed to the express delivery industry, obviously trying to open up its own e-commerce business. Once successful, Toutiao's influence will more than double.

As Toutiao’s biggest enemy, Toutiao should naturally prevent the other party from growing under any circumstances, but if he competes with Toutiao for funds, he is probably the happiest person. Although Alibaba will not involve social interaction, most other fields are also competing with Toutiao.

The river clams compete and the fisherman gains profit, so Ma Huateng is not very willing to burn money with Toutiao at this time.

Ma Huateng continued, "Mr. Wang, are you free tomorrow? I'll take you to meet someone."

"Who?" Wang Xing was also very curious. The person who could be recommended by Ma Huateng himself was definitely not a small person.

Ma Huateng smiled and said, "JD Liu Qiangdong, Teng Xun and JD will also have a series of cooperation plans."

"Liu Qiangdong? This is not bad. Toutiao is now trying its best to attract Pinduoduo, and it seems that he can't sit still." Wang Xing said with a smile. At the same time, he probably knew the cooperation between Teng Xun and JD.com.

Ma Huateng shook his head and smiled, "It's not that I can't sit still. Liu Qiangdong has always believed that even if Pinduoduo's business model can be successful, it will not be able to reach scale. He thinks that something too cheap will not have a market in the future."

"It's hard to say. No one knows how big Zhou Yujie's idea will be." Wang Xing said helplessly.

Ma Huateng smiled and said, "In fact, there is still some truth. The current Pinduoduo can develop so quickly, which is completely a drainage of Toutiao regardless of cost. After a long time, it is impossible to keep like this. Only when we look at the Pinduoduo situation can we see if Zhou Yujie succeeds again this time."

"That's true." Wang Xing nodded and said. Toutiao has hundreds of millions of users using it on average for more than an hour every day. In addition, the probability of advertisements on the news app is far greater than that of national software such as QQ, Alipay, etc., which creates traffic attracting capabilities, Toutiao is a well-deserved number one.

Pinduoduo has obtained a large number of core advertisements, and Toutiao’s big data analysis has enabled Pinduoduo’s users to easily exceed 100 million in less than a year.

If this promotion ability is used on today's preferred method, it will be a fatal blow to Meituan. Fortunately, takeaway requires a lot of offline arrangements and forced traffic in the short term, the effect is far less than that of the e-commerce business that is outsourced with all delivery.

The previous joint crackdown between Alibaba and Santong and Yida was to suppress Pinduoduo, but obviously, Toutiao's offline business layout almost ruined the entire plan.

...

It was soon 2015.

On January 5, two news shocked the whole country suddenly appeared on Weibo.

The first is that Meituan and Dianping plan to merge. After the merger, Wang Xing served as chairman, and Dianping's former CEO Zhang Tao served as vice chairman. Other senior executives were negotiated by both parties, but judging from the first announced list, it is obvious that Meituan has an advantage.

After the merger, Meituan Dianping will once again accept about US$800 million in financing from Tengxun. At the same time, Meituan Dianping will only accept QQ payment and UnionPay.

As soon as the news came out, everyone knew that Ali was fooled by monkeys.

The second news is that Tengxun acquired a stake in JD.com and obtained 11% of the shares. The same is true for payment, and JD.com will only support QQ payment.

Teng Xun once grabbed the core lifeline of the payment field from Toutiao and Alibaba, and once again let people see the power behind Teng Xun.
Chapter completed!