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Global Entrepreneur: UCWEB find the buffer zone

Global Entrepreneur: UCWEB find the buffer zone

Access to Nokia’s venture capital arm of Nokia Growth Partners Fund’s SONY VGP-BPS8A battery investment in, UCWEB’s of Union strategy further.

In celebration the same time, UCWEB and CEO Yu Yongfu clearance must be outside, it is not acquired by Nokia. Similarly, a year ago when UCWEB Alibaba shares, others have speculated that it will become a subsidiary of Ali’s Department. This time, Yu also like to reiterate the company’s independence, but would not disclose the investment amount and share of Nokia stock, saying only that it is the mobile Internet industry, the largest investment to date case.

The reason why the acquisition rumors were injected each time when they emerge, one that is outside of the UCWEB background where third-party mobile browser space for doubts about the future development of the field. On the one hand, 3G mobile Internet era of the outbreak has greatly stimulated the development of mobile browser, so that manufacturers have to invest more, competition became fierce; the other hand, Apple’s iPhone as the creation of a “mobile phone + application” model mainstreaming, mobile browser that connects to the phone and the network bridge in the future there is little value, worth exploring.

April 8, search dogs released new version of the browser, Charles Zhang asked why not make phone browser. Zhang replied, in the PC, the cloud computing trend determines the importance of the browser, but the use of cell phone behavior is far from stability, in the end is at the core browser, or in other applications as the core is still not clear. There is no doubt that mobile phones will be scattered many applications the role and status of the browser. Independent IT commentators Bo told Articles said: “The independence of the mobile browser as a separate desktop browser, as if no other resources to support, it is difficult bigger.”

On the phone, nothing more than the most powerful external support hardware manufacturers, mobile phone operating system side, as well as major carriers. Only in these powerful forces, supported by a huge user base can be effectively converted into a lasting advantage of reliable, quality products or simply an independent cell phone browser, it is easy to become “caught in the fish.”

Yu Yongfu no stranger to similar challenges, but he always believed that Dell Inspiron 6400 Battery browser is still promising: now using a mobile phone can only see 20% of Internet content, and is working to open up the phone UCWEB video and pay and many other aspects. “We will deliver value to all partners.” Yu Yongfu on “Global Entrepreneur,” said.

UCWEB’s official website revealed that Yu said as many as 52 partners, across terminals, operators and content providers and other fields. With various mobile phone applications will be the original “circle” in the browser’s products and services to break up into a separate small program contrary, UCWEB chosen path is possible to integrate other services and applications to your phone browser to consolidate and promote the core of the browser status and value.

2009, UCWEB been profitable, and now with the entry of Nokia and its valuation is also brought to hundreds of millions of dollars. Coupled with the general popularity of mobile applications yet for its development and utilization of low-end market, 35 years, UCWEB days will not be sad. But after that?

UCWEB and Nokia has not revealed after the detailed cooperation plan. Can speculate that the association with Nokia will help in the future of the mobile terminal UCWEB depth and brand enhancement. Currently, Nokia’s Ovi Internet services the fastest growing countries are China, if successful UCWEB together with Ovi, major good news for both sides. And so both of Nokia hardware, operating systems and Internet services, the big vendors to make better UCWEB occupy in the future potential. From the most negative point of view, even if in the future importance of mobile browser down, UCWEB not separately listed, there may be need a good enough browser, the Nokia acquisition. Financial news in a few days ago, Nokia announced the acquisition of U.S. mobile browser vendor Novarra.

Such forward and attack, retreat to the trend, the relative safety of location UCWEB placed. Of course, this kind of “remedial” program was not pursued by Yu Yongfu and UCWEB original intention, nor is acceptance of the Nokia Growth Partners Fund, the main purpose of investment.

Leveraging Nokia

Investors familiar with the financing of origin Yu Yongfu Road. 2007 Acer Aspire 1410 battery received after the first venture, Yu insisted that only look to bring additional strategic value, and then a number of key areas in the formation of close cooperation between investors. Alibaba investment into early 2009, is the mobile e-commerce Yu judge is an important part of the mobile Internet. The same time, Nokia Growth Partners Fund due to a friend referrals to find UCWEB.

UCWEB think the time is what they need resources, and several other characteristics make them interested.

First of all, Nokia Growth Partners Fund is not focused on China, but around the world to find items. Their mobile Internet industry in-depth research, prior to contact with UCWEB, worldwide study many cell phone browser. Global-level vision, brand and resources to give a large number of users has been delineated, but the urgent need for strategies and brand Zaishangtaijie the UCWEB tremendous value. “How wild does not mean that heart will be able to stand very high and needs a higher vision of global resources.” Yu Yongfu said on the Articles.

It Yujie Shao, and Nokia Growth Partners Fund in contact, through its matchmaking, UCWEB team and Nokia the world’s CFO, S40, global head, global vice president of sales and many other Nokia executives were regular or irregular meetings. Meanwhile, the Fund is to introduce technology and products UCWEB global talent. All of these are clearly contribute to grass-roots origin UCWEB from a global perspective to grasp the pulse of the industry’s development.

Another benefit from Nokia, it was the UCWEB beginning in early 2010, the internationalization of the layout. Yu Yongfu that China’s mobile Internet with the majority outside the U.S. and Japan, a considerable degree of national development, is a rare opportunity to seize the upper hand. In their view, except U.S. and Japan, the mobile Internet is the fastest growing in India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Russia and Vietnam. This year in February, Yu went to visit the Indian market.

More importantly, unlike the iPhone and the BlackBerry popularity of America, the leading terminal operators, and application market of Japan, these emerging markets, terminals, user groups and needs are similar in China, and Nokia are the biggest share, or a larger market share, Apple A1185 battery they are experiencing the proliferation of mobile phones cottage – a few years ago in China. This similarity will undoubtedly reduce the committed international UCWEB access difficult. At present, though both sides unwilling to disclose the specific forms of cooperation at the operational level, be sure, Nokia’s resources is bound to give access to large emerging markets UCWEB help.

Yu Yongfu are adapting to and promoting these new changes. In the past, Legend Capital origin, he often talks about Lenovo’s management idea, but after the commencement of globalization strategy, he talked more about the Huawei. “Now more thinking is, how to change a Chinese company into a global company. We learn that Huawei, as Huawei from the vision, talent and market point of view, more than half of all internationally oriented. This is not only to a company brings many challenges, but also bring a lot of wealth. “It is reported that more than 400 employees this year will be a massive expansion UCWEB may break 700.

Alliance-building

Nokia’s strength in trying to help will be long-sleeved dance to the international arena while, UCWEB headquarters in China must be careful to guard its a fear of all Internet businesses are one-third of the giant: Tencent.

As more and more fiercely, “Tencent threat”, the majority of people in the industry believe “Qphone” coming just a matter of time. Many entrepreneurs to Articles that Tencent will draw on iPhone business model, a mobile phone is only Tencent closed ecosystem. Tencent Research Institute Zheng also Articles admitted the whole war, Tencent mobile phone operating system being pre-research.

But Zheng also said it will launch Qphone say too early, their primary task is to build mobile phone users from the entrance toward the Internet – browser. “Based on the browser you can see a lot of content, most notably Google now ‘PC strategy’: the occupation through the Apple A1185 Battery of Android and Chrome, it can push anything, the equivalent of App Store.” Zheng told the whole war, “Global entrepreneurs “, said:” We have many advantages compared UCWEB. It is the run early, but we are not worried it. we are technically no obstacles, other companies that we have a very strong linkage effects. “

The simplest example is currently on the phone, the user can only Tencent April 2009 launch of the browser login QQ farm. Obviously, Yu Yongfu not appreciate this kind of “force users to change their habit, not for the user view” approach: “This is not any country and industry tooth thing to do.”

But the competition will eventually have to face. Nobody can ignore the influence of Tencent. According to a secure area of say in February of this year has forced bundling Tencent QQ doctor overnight cover about 40% of domestic Internet users.

Fortunately, the need for impact resistance than UCWEB Tencent family, their vertical and horizontal alliances in the “Qphone” under the threat becomes more urgent. Operator level, UCWEB and China Mobile, Unicom, Telecom have various forms of cooperation; in the mobile terminal, UCWEB has passed the “mobile phone + UCWEB = Internet phone” concept, and all domestic terminal manufacturers and foreign manufacturers such as Motorola, the co-operation ; content level, Yu Yongfu the promise to not content to page navigation mode and various mobile content Web sites. More importantly, barriers in the Tencent applications not yet been established, UCWEB of increasing the layout: with Thunder, Taobao, a close cooperation with all networks, etc., also developed its own player and the desktop, in the hope the formation of the Siege of QQ potential. Meanwhile, UCWEB also steer clear of a giant may stimulate a “hostile” zones, such as operators and portals coveted IM.

Turning to possible future Tencent launched Qphone, Yu Yongfu that this is operators, handset manufacturers and other mobile Internet content and applications side are not willing to see. In other words, this is likely to persuade some opponents to join his UCWEB vertical and horizontal alliances Tencent overall resist the opportunity. Yu must be careful, however, because the face of a powerful enemy with the alliance is often loose and not controllable, and sometimes allied with everyone and anyone equal to no alliance. Therefore, Yu Yongfu to create a convergence of the fundamental interests of the core interests of the community, on this basis re-unite all the forces can be united. In this sense, UCWEB and Alibaba, Nokia capital between “marriage” are just one step in this alliance chess game. “These investments will not affect our cooperation with other partners, we also continued HP pavilion dv9000 Battery inject capital and other open-minded.” Yu Yongfu said.

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