For a moment, Penguin seemed to have become the spokesperson of a black-hearted company.
The Internet was filled with the voices of Penguin making money against their conscience and deceiving their parents.
To be honest, Penguin was not entirely to blame for this.
There were too many companies that entered the SP business, including Netease and TOM.
Penguin was at most the second best in the industry.
However, Yuanhang. com had been targeting Penguin from the beginning.
Penguin became the scapegoat for this matter.
It was as if all the unreasonable charges were done by Penguin.
The person who had concocted all of this was the editor-in-chief of Yuanhang. com, Chen Juhong.
She had once been the editor-in-chief of the political magazine "Nanfeng Chuang," so she knew the most about sensitive issues in society.
It was like a snake hunter finding the seven inches of a snake.
One hit made the penguin so uncomfortable that it almost vomited blood.
Immediately after, Chen Juhong continued to make up articles on Yuanhang. com, such as
"The mobile network that you don't know about?”"Let the child stay away from the gray!" The
core of these articles pointed directly at the yellow and gray areas in mobile value-added services, and the possible harm they could cause to teenagers.
This article was reprinted in all the major media outlets and newspapers.
Regarding the issue of youth education, all the parents were terrified.
Only then did they realize that apart from the Internet, even mobile phones could easily obtain a lot of unhealthy information.
Of course, all of these articles pointed at Penguin.
When Wu Xiaoguang, who was in charge of public relations, realized the seriousness of the matter, it was already a little late.
The internet was filled with criticism of Penguin.
It was as if the penguin had done something heinous.
Wu Xiaoguang knew that many of them were hired by his opponents, but it was true that the public opinion was being manipulated by the water army.
Affected by this, Penguin, which had just been listed in Hong Kong, experienced a sharp drop in its share price.
From the highest price of 2.6 Hong Kong dollars on the day of the listing, it plummeted to 1.8 Hong Kong dollars, a drop of more than 30%.
It even fell below the price of the June 16th issue.
When Pony Ma, who had just raised 800 million yuan to fight a protracted war with Yuanhang Technology, found out about this,
he was shocked.
What followed was rage.
He really didn't expect that such a big thing would happen to Penguin after he had only been in Gangjiang for a few days.
Especially when Pony Ma learned about the surging public opinion on the mainland from the Gangjiang Internet.
He knew that Penguin was in trouble.
If this matter wasn't handled well, the stock prices would hit rock bottom.
Penguin's empire would collapse.
Without any time to think, Pony returned to the headquarters in Pengcheng that day and scolded Wu Xiaoguang.
Countless people sat in the conference room, thinking of ways.
At this moment, everyone was no longer as happy as when the company went public a few days ago.
Originally, Penguin was planning to move into the new office location of the Fiyta Building in Nanshan District in July.
However, if this matter was not handled well, not to mention moving into the new building, it was also a problem whether the old Saige Digital Technology Park Building could be left behind.
Wu Xiaoguang braced himself and said,
"Pony, there's one more thing. The Pengcheng government has sent officials over to ask Penguin to carry out business reforms as soon as possible to calm down the public.
The government did not want Penguin Corporation to affect Pengcheng's investment environment and image!”
Hearing this, everyone present sucked in a cold breath.
Because this sentence was equivalent to an ultimatum from the Pengcheng government.
The implication was that if they did not rectify it within the time limit, Penguin would be a company that would tarnish Pengcheng's investment environment and image.
There was no need for the government to keep such a company.
Pony took a deep breath and made a painful decision
.”
Zeng Liqing, who was in charge of operations, turned pale with fright.
"Pony, you have to understand. Mobile value-added services account for 70% of our revenue. Once we cut it off, our revenue this year will plummet. This will be reflected in the stock market…"
However, before he could finish his sentence, Pony said sternly,
"It's settled. I'll take all the responsibility!"”
As the company's largest individual shareholder, founder, and decision-maker, no one objected to Pony Ma's words.
In fact, everyone present knew that Pony Ma was a brave man who had cut his wrist.
But there was nothing he could do. Penguin's business in DreamNet was now a stinky mess because of Yuanhang's reports.
If he continued to stay in this business, other than being criticized by countless netizens, he would not get any benefits.
For Pony, he had no choice but to swallow his anger.
However, the problem was that sometimes, the company's founders didn't have the final say.
Although the shares were reduced due to the listing, MIH South Africa still held more than 40% of Penguin's shares and completely disagreed with Penguin's behavior.
In South Africa's MIH's view, all they needed to do was to rectify the DreamNet project.
How could he give up on a project that had an annual income of 500 to 600 million yuan just because of some public opinion?
Even the MIH vice president, Wang Dawei, did not understand.
After all, as a foreigner, although he had a good investment vision, he did not understand the national conditions of the gardener.
Hence, for the first time, Pony Ma had a huge disagreement with MIH.
After failing to convince the other party in several meetings, the founder team and South Africa's MIH representative finally parted on bad terms.
At this time, the public opinion of Penguin was raging.
And internally, there was a conflict with the major shareholders.
It could be said that this was the most dangerous moment for Penguin since its establishment.
As a result, many netizens chose to leave QQ and join the OT camp.
However, the damage to Penguin's reputation had greatly benefited MT. The number of registered users had increased steadily.
By the end of June, the number of registered users had reached nearly 300 million.
The number of online users had reached 5 million,
and Penguin was affected by this. Although there were still more than 300 million registered users, the number of online users had decreased from 6.5 million in May to 4.8 million.
And this number was still rapidly decreasing.
This was the first time that the number of instant messaging software had surpassed QQ's.
To achieve a gorgeous counterattack.
This shocked all the internet companies.
Jack Ma, who was in Hangzhou, knew Lin Xuan, who was behind Yuanhang Technology, and Zhang Ying of Shenghua Capital.
On a financial program, Director Lin was praised as an internet genius.
He would definitely welcome Chairman Lin at the West Lake Sword Seminar in September.
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