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Chapter 487 0477 [Shake It Now!]

Li Ao gave speeches for several days in a row, especially during his upcoming trip to Xiamen University.

Coinciding with Xiamen University's 90th anniversary, a "National Studies Summit Forum" was held. Li Ao served as the forum's host, bringing together numerous scholars from both sides of the Taiwan Strait to discuss national studies.

Among those who attended were Xu Lai, Chen Guiliang's former mentor at Peking University.

Chen Guiliang also secured the exclusive online broadcasting rights for this forum!

The number of viewers attracted that day was even greater, and thanks to Chen Guiliang's promotion, even many university professors watched the live stream through A-site.

Some of these viewers who were drawn in left after watching the live stream, not even bothering to register an account.

Some registered accounts and even went to watch videos on AcFun after the live stream ended, but found that there wasn't much content that interested them, so they gradually abandoned the account.

However, some viewers were successfully retained and spent a lot of time surfing the internet on ACFun every day.

The surge in users over the past few months has made long-time users feel very uncomfortable, as the atmosphere on AcFun has gradually changed.

Previously, it mainly featured anime and meme content, but now it has added a lot of games and political (left-leaning) content, forcing some of its old users to move to Bilibili.

In addition, several games under Youke are launching exclusive skins for AcFun (free to claim). Furthermore, simply registering an AcFun account will give you a chance to win a legendary skin for free.

With the addition of the "Oracle Era" city championship live stream, and with such a multi-pronged approach, ACFun's registered users exceeded 10 million before the end of April.

Moreover, the daily active user ratio is particularly high, and the overall atmosphere is clearly left-leaning, which is the complete opposite of Weibo, which has a right-leaning atmosphere.

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"Hello Auntie!"

"Thank you for your help, Xiao Chen."

Bian Guanyue's mother, Guan Xiaolin, came to the capital to visit her daughter, and Chen Guiliang naturally had to go to the airport to pick her up.

The atmosphere was somewhat awkward when the mother and daughter met.

They were both afraid of escalating the conflict again, so they didn't communicate much when they met.

Guan Xiaolin was quite warm towards Chen Guiliang. Or rather, she was warm and polite to everyone, but easily lost control when facing her ex-husband and daughter.

This shows that she can't let go.

Both mother and daughter are a bit too much of a romantic!
However, Guan Xiaolin is more assertive and has a stronger desire to control her lover. Bian Guanyue, on the other hand, is the opposite. Her upbringing has made her emotionally vulnerable, and she always chooses to tolerate and yield because she is afraid of losing him.

"How's your business, Uncle?" Chen Guiliang asked Guan Xiaolin casually as he drove.

Guan Xiaolin said, "It's alright. The first two years were a bit difficult, but things have calmed down now."

Guan Xiaolin and her current husband run a small business in Huaqiangbei, mainly wholesaling and reselling electronic components.

He wouldn't call himself rich, as his business has never grown very large; but he's not poor either, as he owns a house and a shop in Shenzhen.

There are many small business owners like this in Shenzhen. They're not rich, but they're not poor either.

Chen Guiliang drove home, and Guan Xiaolin looked around the interior decoration, praising the house's excellent structure and layout.

Bian Guanyue silently dragged her mother's suitcase to a guest room, where the bed and other items had already been made.

After touring the house for a while, Guan Xiaolin asked, "Such a big house, don't you have a housekeeper?"

Chen Guiliang said, "I do the regular spot cleaning myself, and a housekeeping service comes to do a thorough cleaning every week. Now I'm planning to hire a housekeeper to cook and do laundry, and my mom is already helping to find someone back in our hometown."

Guan Xiaolin was afraid that her daughter would be wronged, so she wanted to ask about marriage and having children. But she was also afraid of upsetting Chen Guiliang, so she hesitated and held back several times before speaking.

After chatting about everyday things for a while, Guan Xiaolin didn't know what else to say, so she helped tidy up the messy sofa and then went to the kitchen to prepare the meal.

"Auntie, let's eat out for this meal. It's getting late to cook now," Chen Guiliang said.

"I'll listen to you." Guan Xiaolin didn't stop what she was doing and continued to help clean up the kitchen, mainly because she wanted to show off in front of her daughter and future son-in-law.

After a while, Chen Guiliang took the mother and daughter out to eat.

Guan Xiaolin showered the entire time with praise, saying that Chen Guiliang's choice of a private restaurant was tasteful, and that Bian Guanyue had become more mature and composed in recent years.

So much so that when they went to bed that night, Chen Guiliang said to Bian Guanyue, "Your mother is quite easy to get along with; she's very polite to the waiters in the restaurant."

Bian Guanyue sighed, "She's very polite to everyone except her family. I don't even dare to be alone with her, otherwise we'll definitely start arguing again within two or three days. She's been holding it all in. I can tell she has a lot to say to me, but she's afraid of arguing with me again."

At this point, Bian Guanyue chuckled and said, "Actually, I'm pretty much the same. I'm normal when I'm with strangers, but I can't help but argue with my mom. It's the kind of argument that I can't control. I don't really want to argue, but my emotions are very easy to get out of control."

Chen Guiliang offered her a suggestion: "Then try to have less contact with her normally. Invite her to your home once a year, and if you both restrain yourselves, things might improve in a few years."

"Mmm," Bian Guanyue nestled in Chen Guiliang's arms, "Let's not do anything tonight, can you just hold me while we sleep?"

Chen Guiliang reached out and hugged her, patting her back gently as if he were comforting a child.

Bian Guanyue shifted a few times, adjusting to the most comfortable position, and drifted off to sleep with a smile on her face. The next day, Chen Guiliang took a day off to personally accompany the mother and daughter to tourist attractions.

On the fourth day, Guan Xiaolin bought a plane ticket and left, saying she needed to rush back to Shenzhen to take care of her business and child. Actually, it was just that the mother and daughter were showing signs of arguing again; who knows why they had a disagreement over such a trivial matter.

Watching her mother pass through the security checkpoint, Bian Guanyue breathed a long sigh of relief and said, "Being with her is so tiring."

Chen Guiliang laughed and said, "You've made great progress. This time you didn't really start arguing."

"It can be considered a kind of progress," Bian Guanyue said.

Chen Guiliang sent Bian Guanyue back to school, while he himself returned to his two companies and held consecutive senior management meetings.

The internet, which has always been governed by "nine dragons," is about to have another dragon added: the State Internet Information Office is about to be officially established.

Major internet companies have been informed in advance and are required to improve their online content management.

Those who don't perform well will definitely be frequently summoned for talks after the State Internet Information Office is established.

This isn't a problem specific to any one company. Chen Guiliang has paid close attention to this aspect, but it hasn't been effective in changing the chaotic state of his online communities.

Next year, and even all microblogging-like products across the internet, will be required to disable comments for three days for rectification.

After discussing online content regulation, Chen Guiliang convened executives from ByteDance and Youke the following day to discuss how to deal with companies such as Tencent, Alibaba, and UC.

"UC and Alipay have teamed up. UC will launch a mobile browser with Alipay built-in, and they've also entered into a deep partnership with online banks..."

“ByteDance and Youke cannot go it alone. Youke’s Youpay should be directly merged with the payment project that ByteDance is currently working on. I want to spin off Youpay from Youke and establish a separate company called Youpay, with ByteDance also injecting some funds…”

The executives from both companies looked at each other in bewilderment. ByteDance was naturally willing, since Youpay had always been very profitable.

Youke, on the other hand, is in a dilemma. Their cash cow is being spun off into a subsidiary, and ByteDance is to be brought in as a shareholder. They are reluctant to let it go, but also very much looking forward to it.

Because ByteDance controls a massive number of payment gateways, this is very beneficial to the long-term development of Upay.

If this is done, WeChat will use Youpay in the future, and there will be no more WeChat Pay.

Chen Guiliang is the chairman of both companies, and once he has spoken, no one else can object. The focus of the subsequent debate is simply the specific details of the cooperation, as both Youke and ByteDance want to control Youpay.

It's clear that ByteDance can't win this battle.

With the overall framework finalized, Chen Guiliang then spoke of Tencent: "Tencent not only launched PalmNews, which is positioned to compete with our WeChat, but also recently partnered with China Telecom to form an industry alliance, integrating services such as QQ, browsers, Qzone, and Weibo. Future contract-based smartphones sold by China Telecom will gradually come pre-installed with the entire Tencent ecosystem. Given this, we'll cooperate with China Unicom and China Mobile to also incorporate ByteDance and Youke's main products..."

Over the past month, domestic manufacturers have been forming alliances everywhere, with Baidu alone creating two alliances.

The era of fierce competition in the mobile internet has arrived, and major domestic companies are frantically expanding their market share.

For example, ByteDance's WeChat is facing increasing competition.

Not only did Tencent launch Zhangxun, but Xiaomi also launched MiTalk. Even Shanda jumped on the bandwagon, creating something called Kiki.

Shanda even incorporated Kiki ads into the game, and Chen Guiliang naturally followed suit, ordering ByteDance and Youke to strengthen their cooperation and also conduct WeChat promotion activities in the game.

Mobile operators like China Mobile are powerless to stop this trend, yet China Mobile's Fetion remains stubbornly entrenched in its outdated practices. Some want to reform Fetion, but nothing seems to go wrong.

"Since the telecom operators can no longer hinder us, WeChat's voice messaging function can be launched. Features like 'People Nearby' and 'Shake' should be tested and launched as soon as possible. Also, ByteDance should accelerate its acquisition of shares in NavInfo; once it holds more than 5%, it will directly make a takeover bid..."

With current technology and environment, WeChat can only handle voice communication, not voice recording and then sending.

Two weeks later, WeChat, owned by ByteDance, announced the release of version 2.0.

We launched a voice intercom function, as well as a "People Nearby" and "Shake" functions.

Almost at the same time, MiTalk also launched its voice chat function.

Lei Jun was very confident in his company's feature, only to find that ByteDance had also launched it. Even more alarming is the "Shake" feature!
Fortunately, not all smartphones can be shaken.

This thing has hardware requirements for the phone. The iPhone 4 will definitely work, but even the iPhone 3GS cannot accurately detect shaking. And the iPhone 3G doesn't support the shake function at all.

Currently, no more than 10 mobile phones sold in China support the shake-to-use feature.

But the more it is like this, the more people feel it is high-end and fashionable.

Mobile users who didn't use WeChat before were also attracted by this feature. After downloading and registering WeChat, they would shake their phones frequently and chat with strangers they met.

The ultimate hookup app!

Furthermore, due to the requirements for mobile phone hardware, those who successfully navigated the lottery system all possessed a certain level of purchasing power. Even when engaging in casual sex, they were able to achieve a "match in social status."

This thing quickly became popular among high-end mobile phone users.

It's unknown how many pairs of wild mandarin ducks were born from this.

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(From now on, this morning chapter will be updated at 11:00 AM; it's too cold to get up now.)
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