Irene looked at Song Yang who was sighing, and didn't know why Song Yang showed such regret. She didn't know whether Song Yang was also regretful about transferring the operating rights of Hotmail mailboxes in these overseas regions.
There are many partners on the list. For example, in France, which has not changed its mind yet, if you want to be an agent for Hotmail, you have to go to France Telecom, which is also one of the largest telecommunications giants in Europe. Thanks to its status as a colonial power, more than fourteen regions in Africa are France Telecom's markets.
France Telecom , as the agent of Hotmail, still wants to use the brand of Hotmail to better promote its own telecommunications business. Wherever there is Hotmail, there is France Telecom business!
Song Yang looked at France Telecom, which had even thought of a slogan, and almost cursed out loud. This was so shameless.
Song Yang could imagine that France Telecom, which had obtained the agency rights, would definitely play some tricks. For example, in France, companies that did not install France Telecom services would not be provided with Hotmail email services. Song Yang was sure that with the style of that company that wanted to blast oil out of stones, they would definitely play this trick!
But after thinking about it, Song Yang couldn't refuse and handed over the agency operation rights of Hotmail in France to France Telecom. At least in a short period of time, Hotmail could be quickly promoted throughout France.
If we don't cooperate with France Telecom, who knows what means those guys will use to disgust Hotmail. As for using Hotmail to cheat French companies, Song Yang can only say that he can't help for the time being. In the future, he will cut a big piece of meat from France Telecom on behalf of those companies that are cheated!
In addition to France, the computer brand company under Siemens in Germany is also interested in obtaining the operating rights of Hotmail. As for Spain, Italy and other regions, it is basically the local telecommunications groups that want to obtain the operating rights of Hotmail in their local areas.
In these places, the Internet industry is still in its infancy, and apart from telecommunications companies, no other Internet companies can come up with a "deposit" of more than one million US dollars.
Song Yang looked at these overseas telecom giants and big companies like Siemens, and he had a feeling that Hotmail could be used in a variety of ways in their hands. It was not impossible for it to be transformed from an email mailbox into a behemoth covering many industries such as local Internet search, portal websites, games, and e-commerce companies ...
It is hard to say whether companies like Telefonica can accomplish anything, but they are more than capable of doing bad things, and they are quite experienced in how to attack their opponents.
"There are a few special companies that we cooperate with. The one that proposed cooperation is Yandex, a new Internet search company in Russia. I asked a consulting company to check it out.
The founder of Yandex is Arkady Voloz. He established Yandex to develop the first Russian search engine . The other party is currently unable to come up with a deposit of 1.5 million US dollars. "
Irene said carefully, "But considering the relationship between the Russians and America, if Hotmail mailboxes are directly imported, I am afraid it will have a very bad impact on Hotmail mailboxes. Perhaps choosing Yandex and Voloz to cooperate is a good choice!"
Song Yang couldn't help but look at Irene a few more times. In addition to her management ability, Song Yang didn't expect that Irene actually had a good international vision.
It was not until April last year that Russia and Eastern Europe were connected to the global Internet with servers based in America, so Internet companies in Russia have only just started.
Yeadex and Voloz are currently penniless. Not to mention paying a deposit of 1.5 million US dollars, even whether they can survive is still an unknown. The reason they found Hotmail was basically to test it out. Apart from it, there is no other Internet company in the entire Russian world that would come to Song Yang.
Song Yang stroked his chin and said to Irene, "Go find Arkady Voloz and tell him that Hotmail can hand over the Russian and Eastern European operating agency rights to Yeadex for free. Not only Hotmail, but also DoubleClick's Russian agency rights can be handed over to him!"
Irene originally just wanted to have a partner for Hotmail with the Russians, but who knew that Song Yang would actually give the local agency rights of Hotmail and DoubleClick to Volozhsky.
Greg, Marcus and Gallo who were sitting on the sofa, all looked at Song Yang in surprise. That was 1.5 million US dollars in agency fees. If they cooperated with the Russian oligarchs, they would definitely have a chance to get it. But now Song Yang was going to give it to Yesdex for free.
However, Song Yang hadn't finished speaking yet, "Not only Hotmail and DoubleClick, I can also invest no less than US$300,000 in Yeadex, but the investment must be no less than 40% of Yeadex's equity!"
This time even Irene was shocked. Song Yang was almost spending all his money to support Yeadex. Greg opened his mouth and wanted to remind Song Yang that his financial situation was about to explode.
Having invested in Fortinet before, Song Yang is now investing in Yeadex. Now, DoubleClick, Hotmail and ICQ in Song Yang’s hands are all waiting for food!
Song Yang believes that this investment is worthwhile, as the Russians are the largest Internet market in Europe and have a large number of users.
But the Russians, who are known for their lack of martial ethics, are notorious for going back on their word. If you invest directly there, no matter how famous you are, the Russians will go back on their word.
On the contrary, investing is much better. If Yeadex is supported to become the largest Internet company in Russia, or even in Eastern Europe, and dominates a number of Internet industries in Russia, including portals, search, e-commerce, maps, e-commerce, social networking, and games, then today's investment will probably be able to pay back countless times.
"Besides Eastern Europe, in Asia, Hong Kong's PCCW wants to obtain the operating rights for Hotmail in Southeast Asia. In mainland China, the first Internet company called Yinghai Weide is interested in cooperating with us, but the other party also has objections to the deposit. The rest are basically small companies in Singapore, Korea, Siam, etc., and they don't have many Internet users."
Asia is now considered an Internet desert because these places have only recently been connected to the global Internet and there are not many users. Of the 50 to 60 million Internet users in the world, America alone accounts for 20 million. Therefore, America is considered the center of the Internet. Companies like Netscape are not very interested in Asia, Eastern Europe and other places. Currently, only Song Yang's Hotmail is developing markets in these regions.
It's not Irene's fault. She doesn't have much interest in the Internet markets in Korea, Siam and other places. Currently, the total number of Internet users in Korea is less than 100,000, which is considered a lot in Southeast Asia.
As for the mainland, if it weren't for Song Yang, Irene wouldn't have much interest in the place where the first Internet company was born this year. As for Yinghaiwei and the like, she had even less interest.
Song Yang took a look at several companies that wanted to be agents for Hotmail. Not to mention Yingke, the company founded by Mr. Li. No one understands investment better than the Li family, except for one incident when the old horse stumbled.
Yingke wanted to become the agent of Hotmail, definitely for fun, but apart from Mr. Li, Song Yang couldn't think of anyone else in Gangcheng who would shift his focus from the land to other places.
As for Yinghaiwei, Song Yang was silent for a while, and finally said, "I agree to these cooperations. As for the deposit fee, it depends on how much they can come up with. If they really can't come up with it, they can buy shares in these brands as agents. Hotmail will definitely enter the Asian market!"
Hearing that Song Yang was willing to make a profit even if it meant losing money, Irene, Greg and others were reluctant to say anything. Now this small team is basically headed by Song Yang, and his decisions are basically the decisions of companies such as DoubleClick and Hotmail. This would be unimaginable for Yahoo and Netscape, but now DoubleClick, Hotmail, ICQ and even America Movil are all decided by Song Yang.
After Irene finished speaking, Greg took out a few documents, one of which was a lawyer's letter. "This is a class action lawsuit filed in New York against Hotmail. It has been accepted by the New York District Federal Court!"
Looking at the lawyer's letter, Song Yang threw it aside without paying any attention to it. "Let them sue. I won't give them even a penny in settlement money!"
The class action lawsuit filed by the New York gang against Hotmail not only had no impact on Hotmail, but instead seemed to have become an alternative form of publicity, making many people curious about Hotmail. Almost on the day the lawsuit was filed, the number of downloads of Hotmail in New York reached a peak again!
"I heard that Adrian is submitting a proposal to the Houston City Council to introduce the first email management law in the United States. As long as this law is passed, all these lawsuits against Hotmail will become a thing of the past!"
Song Yang smiled and said that Adrian pushed Houston to introduce an email management law, which seemed to have added restrictions on Hotmail mailboxes.
But in fact, once the management law is passed, it means that the Houston department has recognized Hotmail mailbox.
In the future, from Houston to Texas, and then to the entire America, Hotmail will appear as an office product in federal departments of all sizes. Moreover, the first mailbox management law now being implemented by Houston is actually formulated based on Hotmail!