Chapter 133 I even copied the appearance, why should I care about your privacy? Ke Xiaopeng was indeed a little panicked. If word gets out that the negotiations with IDG have failed, UC will be in a very passive position. Not only will there be changes in the already agreed terms with Sequoia Capital, but changes may also occur in the financial institutions and related companies that have cooperated with UC. Ke Xiaopeng looked at Liu Ye. Liu Ye couldn't help but lower his head, muttering in his heart, how could he be blamed for this! Ke Xiaopeng felt nervous and very uncomfortable. UC once had the opportunity to cooperate with Jiyue. Looking back now, it seems that the conditions proposed by Lu Shan can still be negotiated. If UC bought Jiyue's algorithm, there wouldn't be the situation today. However, who could have imagined that Ji Yue's growth would be so rapid. Just as Nokia spent a lot of energy and time to completely ban the Gigo browser on its Symbian system, the other party was able to get support from Warwick and China Unicom.
A large number of mobile phones sold through telecommunications operators are pre-installed with Jiyue Browser, which makes Jiyue's incremental users very scary. Ke Xiaopeng now thinks of a phrase - surrounding the cities with the countryside. Jiyue seems to be using this method to kill UC through a large number of feature phones and copycat phones. Ke Xiaopeng immediately arranged for the technical department, marketing department and publicity department to write a situation report on the matter that was last submitted to Nokia (Symbian) regarding the violation and illegal use of user privacy by the GitLab browser. Finally, it was sent in the form of formal official letters to China Unicom, Huawei, Eastcom, Coolpad, China Star, Tianyu and other mobile phone manufacturers that cooperate with China Unicom, China Telecom and China Mobile. Ke Xiaopeng has one last trick, which is to inform the media about the fact that Xiangjiyue Browser does not respect privacy. But this is a last resort. The best outcome is that Huawei, China Unicom and other mobile phone manufacturers take UC's official letter seriously and stop cooperating with Jiyue. The next morning, many staff members were already very tired. Some were perhaps sleeping soundly at their workstations, while others asked for leave to go home. Ke Xiaopeng was not sleepy at all. After returning to the office, he waited until nine o'clock. Only at this time should we call or email partners one by one to explain UC's current situation and give investors confidence. At the same time, Ke Xiaopeng also looked for all his friends in his circle, hoping that his friends could get in touch with Warwick or China Unicom. Ke Xiaopeng was not naive enough to think that he could change the decisions of these old men just by relying on a few official letters without any connections, acquaintances or friends. Ke Xiaopeng was also very proactive and soon found an acquaintance who helped him establish a relationship with China Unicom headquarters. After staying up for several nights, Ke Xiaopeng did not have time to go back to rest. Instead, he flew directly to China Unicom’s headquarters in Yanjing, hoping to convince China Unicom. After staying in Yanjing for three days, Ke Xiaopeng used all his connections to the sky, but still could not meet with the CEO of China Unicom who had the final say, let alone get things done. This made Ke Xiaopeng extremely shocked. He was surprised at Lu Shan's background and how he could handle both China Unicom and Huawei in such a short period of time. Ke Xiaopeng would never have thought that no matter how good a relationship is, it cannot be as real as real money.
The reason why China Unicom and Huawei are willing to cooperate with Lu Shan is not because Lu Shan has a strong background or a good relationship with the executives of these two companies. Instead, Lu Shan gave the two companies a bright future. The base station layout model algorithm can actually bring profits to Huawei and China Unicom, and the profits are very considerable. This is not something that can be compared with so-called connections and backdoors. After being busy in Yanjing for three or four days, Ke Xiaopeng didn't care about anything. Neither did he meet with senior executives with a say in Unicom, nor did he resolve the UC crisis. Of course, the top management of China Unicom saw UC's letter. But on the one hand, they can save billions or even tens of billions of funds, on the other hand, the so-called software may infringe on the privacy of users. It is obvious what choice China Unicom will make. Therefore, the senior management of China Unicom naturally chose to read the letter but not reply, and would not respond to the questions raised in Ke Xiaopeng’s official letter. Just when Ke Xiaopeng was extremely anxious, news came from UC headquarters. UC's official letter to major mobile phone manufacturers has received responses from some of them. After receiving this news, Ke Xiaopeng immediately perked up. This can be regarded as something gained. Ke Xiaopeng hurriedly said to Liu Ye: "Which mobile phone manufacturers have responded? Scan their reply letters and send them to me via email." Ke Xiaopeng thought that even if he couldn't deal with China Unicom, it would be good for UC if he could first deal with these mobile phone manufacturers. In this way, capital such as IDG will see that most mobile phone manufacturers hold the same views on user privacy as UC and are unwilling to pre-install the Geek Browser, so the third round of financing can still be discussed. But Liu Ye kept hesitating and didn't say anything on the other end of the phone. Ke Xiaopeng had a very bad feeling about this. Liu Ye said: "At present, the only mobile phone manufacturer that has responded to us is Tianyu." Ke Xiaopeng asked, "What did Tianyu answer?" Tianyu is currently in the first echelon of domestic mobile phones. Tianyu started out as a manufacturer of copycat mobile phones and later gradually developed its own innovations, but the content of its independent innovations was limited to the appearance, batteries, ringtones, etc. of the mobile phones. Liu Ye said: "I have already sent you the other party's response via email." Some things are really hard to say. Ke Xiaopeng quickly logged into his email and checked Tianyu's reply. Tianyu did not send a formal reply, but the staff directly replied to the official email sent by UC. Ke Xiaopeng looked at the other party's reply and his hopes were dashed.
Tianyu replied: "Tianyu is only a mobile phone manufacturer. Mobile Internet related applications are reviewed by relevant national departments." With just such a simple sentence, he pushed his own responsibility far away and politely rejected UC's request. When Ke Xiaopeng saw this reply, he was very angry. Ke Xiaopeng has a relatively good relationship with the CEO of Tianyu. Uc also helped Tianyu do mobile phone advertising for a period of time. Half a year ago, when Tianyu's CEO came to Yangcheng to visit Ke Xiaopeng, the two had a great conversation and got along very well. It stands to reason that when something like this happens, when encountering such a situation, Tianyu should at least help Ke Xiaopeng. Ke Xiaopeng couldn't help but call Tianyu's CEO Rong Xiaohua. The phone rang several times before Rong Xiaohua answered it. Ke Xiaopeng said: "Mr. Rong, Uc has always been committed to user experience and user privacy security." “We have had a very pleasant cooperation with your company before.” "This time I heard that all the mobile phones your company sells to China Unicom will be pre-installed with the Extreme Browser, which will definitely affect our cooperation." "Jiyue Browser does not meet relevant requirements in terms of user privacy..." Ke Xiaopeng said a lot on the phone, his purpose was to persuade Mr. Rong to give up pre-installing Jiyue Browser and maintain the friendship between the two parties. After Ke Xiaopeng finished speaking, President Rong sighed deeply and said on the phone: "President Ke, I know everything you said." "But please also put yourself in our shoes, Mr. Ke." Tianyu Mobile has been under tremendous pressure during this period. After experiencing a wave of explosive growth in the mobile phone consumer market in the past few years, the growth rate of mobile phone sales in the country has been slowing down in the past two years. But the number of mobile phone brands is increasing day by day. Tianyu also has sales pressure. In the independent sales channels, its life is hanging by a thread. Currently, 90% of Tianyu’s mobile phone sales come from China Unicom, China Mobile and China Telecom. In 2008, Xiaguo officially entered the 3G era. Tianyu did not want to fall behind in the 3G era, so it also hurriedly launched several 3G mobile phones. Its sales are also highly dependent on China Unicom, which has performed relatively well in 3G. China Unicom cannot be offended, and Tianyu is even more unwilling to lose China Unicom's sales channels. President Rong said, "President Ke, today I want to tell you something from the bottom of my heart." "I won't go into details about how Tianyu got started." "To put it more bluntly, what do today's consumers care about? They care about whether the phone is good-looking, easy to use and cheap, not anything else."
"There are many mobile phones on the market that copy the appearance of Nokia phones. They don't even care about the possibility of being sued for intellectual property rights. How can they care about a certain software in the phone that violates the user's privacy?" After hanging up the phone. Ke Xiaopeng found himself in a state of extinction. Bad news comes one after another. Sequoia Capital sent an official letter, meaning that the third round of financing for UC was a joint decision of the three companies. Now IDG and Temasek have downgraded UC's future rating to negative. Sequoia Capital also decided to suspend the launch of the third round of financing. Ke Xiaopeng stayed awake all night again. There is no point in staying in Yanjing anymore. After Ke Xiaopeng returned to Yangcheng, he immediately decided to go to Jiangzhou in person to find Lu Shan! Some chips are still in your hands. If you don’t play them out, it will be too late. Jiangzhou University. Chen Liang called Lu Shan, Fan Bing and Yu Chenxi to the office. Chen Liang's smile was all over his face. On the table were gold-stamped certificates and envelopes filled with cash. First Prize and Best Work Award in the National College Students Mathematical Modeling Competition. Lu Shan, together with Fan Bing and Yu Chenxi, created history for Jiangzhou University in less than a day. Fan Bing was very excited looking at the certificate. This is the first prize in the country. It is of great value. When looking for a job in the future, Fan Bing will definitely have priority given the same opportunities. Just when Fan Bing was about to take the certificate, Chen Liang hit her hand. "The certificates will be issued at the conference. I invited you here today so that you can take a look and feel it first." Fan Bing and Yu Chenxi couldn't suppress the joy on their faces. This is the first time for both of them to participate in the Mathematical Modeling Competition. I didn't even understand the question, but I won the first prize. Lu Shan made an indelible contribution. Yu Chenxi said very bluntly: "This time it's all thanks to Lu Shan. If it weren't for Lu Shan, we might not be able to solve the problem, let alone win the prize." Fan Bing was rather embarrassed and said defensively, "Lu Shan is the icing on the cake."
Teacher Chen Liang, who was the instructor of the Mathematical Modeling Competition, was very clear about the level of Fan Bing and Yu Chenxi. Chen Liang said: "The first prize is a 3000 yuan team excellence award and an 8000 yuan bonus, a total of 11000 yuan." "You can discuss this money among yourselves and make your own decision." Yu Chenxi really felt that she was unworthy of the award. It was already very good to have the honor, so she was really embarrassed to take the money. She said to Lu Shan: "I don't want the bonus. Give it all to Lu Shan." This made Fan Bing feel uncomfortable. As for Lu Shan, he suddenly thought that the points he would get from winning the national first prize in this round of mathematical modeling competition should not be too bad. He didn't have time to talk about the bonus and hurried into the Singularity Laboratory. (End of this chapter)