Google strategic investment Thunder, again ignited the market for client focus.
Now, advertisers who are running the client as an important way to online advertising. As for the Internet portal is also never thought of that one day will face the impact from the client software.
December 31, 2006, Beijing Science and Technology Co., Ltd. completed the East is still domestic commercial player software super king, a wholly owned acquisitions; week later, another storm audio video software, also married into a wealthy and playback software hot to form Storm Internet Limited. Super king who is the early one of the main video playback software, and STORM is a popular major player, accounting for more than 40% domestic share video.
Just when the rise of the Internet concept, the client software was considered a backward industry and technology form. But with the maturing Internet industry, with the value of the client began to receive the favor of users and investors.
Now, even the advertised network survival Google did not give up the efforts of the client area. Apart from investment outside Thunder, Google itself has launched a photo software Picasa, real-time tool Gtalk, Google earth Earth View tool, which are connected to the Internet and through the rich features.
Client software investment, acquisition boom began in the second half of 2005, top ten download the client software are heavily invested in that time, or Internet companies in the bag.
March 2006, e-magazine company for more than 10 million yuan ZCOM price download software buy old flashget (FlashGet). To get more users, ZCOM FlashGet after the completion of the acquisition, which updates the software version of human tissue in order to download the new client markets for more users, although ZCOM CEO Huang Mingming said the company profitable FlashGet aside consideration of the issue, but a large The user base is still very easy to translate into an alarming return.
January 10, ZCOM cooperation with Kingsoft to reach, through its electronic journal and FlashGet to download the software for Kingsoft online games to promote their, ZCOM in addition to naming rights, Jinshan online game servers, but also the income from Gold Mountain to get into online games income.
In the ad, the client also is increasingly becoming a tool for providing services.
Thunder's CEO Zou Shenglong that service-based business model is built to create the future goal of Thunder. Although the Thunder software is client forms, but in the subsequent development, in particular, have millions of users, the Thunder hosts the business has changed, "it can become a community, a large network of digital products distributors. "
This view has also been COO Don Supergrass North Skynet recognition. Tang strength of the grass that the P2P software is licensed based on number of resources dealing services will be in 2007 one of the focuses of China's Internet industry.
And Zou Shenglong similar ideas include PPLIVE Yao Yan, the young CEO that the client is an extension of a network of life, compared to a simple Web browsing, the client carries more user experience. PPLIVE is now the largest Internet television service provider with more than 60 million IPTV users.
Now, Teng fast becoming the point of view of a practitioner and the largest beneficiaries, the world's largest domestic real-time chat tool is the highest valuation of Internet companies, is by virtue of its "Little Penguin" and Rijindoujin, in addition to providing chat services addition, online games, online communities, online video stations are as Teng Xun try new business models to provide a load platform.
And Teng Xun's this idea more and more imitators is to get the market, who cares to download the software to benefit it, "we provide a service," almost every client companies are now the slogan.