Sony responded to Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard; ByteDance earned an average of 1.007 billion yuan per day

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QQ Music Test Watch Ads to enjoy free VIP song function

According to fast technology news, there are user feedback that QQ Music recently began to test watching advertisements and listening to songs for free among some invited people, which needs to be non-green diamond non-paid package users. Screenshots show that watching a 15-second ad allows you to listen to a song for free for 30 minutes, including the full version of the song that was previously only available to members.

The User Agreement mentions that the advertisements pushed by the system include, but are not limited to, open-screen advertisements, banner advertisements, button advertisements, floating advertisements, pop-up advertisements, pause advertisements, in-feed advertisements, audio advertisements, etc., as well as emerging advertising forms that may appear in the future according to Tencent's business arrangements.

However, this free time also has conditions, officially called the natural time, from the time of acquisition, the countdown begins, please use it as soon as possible within the validity period, and the time countdown will automatically exit the free listening mode.

ByteDance's average daily revenue in 2021 is 1.007 billion yuan

According to Reuters reported on January 20, ByteDance insiders disclosed to some employees at a meeting this week that the company's total revenue in 2021 increased by 70% year-on-year to about $58 billion, or about 368 billion yuan. In other words, the Internet giant earns an average of more than 1 billion yuan per day. From the perspective of revenue growth, the company's revenue in 2021 has slowed down from the previous year.

In June 2021, ByteDance disclosed its financial information for the first time. According to the data, the company achieved revenue of 236.6 billion yuan in 2020, an increase of 111% year-on-year, about half of Tencent and one-third of Alibaba in the same period. Its global monthly active users (MAU) reached 1.9 billion, close to 70% of Facebook's full matrix users in the same period.

Sony responded to Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard

A few days ago, Microsoft announced that it will spend $68.7 billion to acquire Activision Blizzard, which will obtain a large number of heavyweight game IP, and once Microsoft abandons Sony's PS platform, it will have a great impact on Sony. Sony also responded to the matter a few days ago, and the spokesperson believes that after Microsoft completes the acquisition of Activision Blizzard, the latter's games can still appear on the PlayStation platform.

Prior to this, Spencer, the head of Microsoft's gaming business, had a similar statement, stressing that everyone should not worry about exclusivity, "I just want to say to players who play Activision Blizzard games on the Sony PS platform that we have no intention of keeping the community away from the platform, and we remain committed to this." ”

The Harry Potter mobile game officially apologized again

On the evening of January 20, the official Weibo of the NetEase mobile game "Harry Potter: Magic Awakening" announced the optimization plan for the content of the New Year version of the event, canceling the original New Year roulette wheel, and all the prizes in the roulette wheel will be placed in the form of "New Year Gift Box"; the duration of the time-limited card draw activity in the gap of memory is extended to three weeks.

In response to the much-concerned new fashion modifications, the Harry Potter mobile game official said that the studio art designers have carried out optimization and modification of the New Year fashion, which will be explained in detail later, "For the trouble caused to everyone this time, we apologize again." NetEase 'Harry Potter Magic Awakening' mobile game due to the Spring Festival activities caused a large number of players to complain, was accused of "krypton and liver" and "rotten", etc., #Tens of thousands of people please resign Harry Potter Magic Awakening Planning # Topic once rushed to the first place in the Weibo hot search list.

Rumors spread that there were 1,500 layoffs and the vice president left

According to Sina Technology news, this month, Youzan launched the first round of layoffs. The first thing to be cut is from product and technology research and development. Some insiders expect that youzan is expected to lay off more than 1,500 people in this round. At the highest number of likes, there were more than 4,700 people. The above-mentioned source said that from the OKR point of view, functional departments and departments of medium-term nature such as products and technologies will be the hardest hit areas for layoffs.

In addition, Youzan Vice President Chen Jinhui has left in October 2021. As of press time, Youzan has not responded to the layoffs.

Wang Laoji's "beeping and beering" was investigated for suspected pyramid schemes

A few days ago, the "Beep Hi Beer" beer project launched by Guangdong Sibu Group and Wang Laoji Brand was suspected of pyramid schemes, and the Market Supervision Bureau of Yujia County, Henan Province, applied to the local market to freeze the accounts of 7 affiliated companies, and the court ruled that the amount of frozen funds reached 200 million yuan.

According to the data, Sibu Group is a well-known micro-business enterprise, and its chairman Wu Zhaoguo has publicly stated that it will bring out 1,000 millionaires in one month. The relevant person in charge of the Market Supervision Bureau of Yujia County told reporters that the object of this investigation is only for Sibu Group. "Guangzhou Pharmaceutical Group only provides the 'Wang Laoji' trademark, and its business behavior has nothing to do with them."

Forbes released the 2022 Top 25 American Philanthropists: Buffett topped the list

On January 20, Forbes released the 2022 Top 25 Charity Rich in the United States. Forbes estimates that the cumulative total lifetime of the 25 most generous donors in the United States has reached $169 billion, up from $149 billion last year.

The combined wealth of the 25 philanthropists is $150 billion more than a year ago, an average increase of 18 percent per person. It is estimated that their combined net worth is as high as $1.1 trillion.

The following are the top 10 on the list: Warren Buffett; Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates; George Soros; Michael Bloomberg; Mackenzie Scott; Charles Chuck Finney; Gordon Moore, Betty Moore; Jim Simmons, Marilyn Simmons; Phil Knight and the family; Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chen and his wife.

Tesla posted that it insisted on not advertising

On January 20, Tesla's official WeChat account posted, saying that it would not leave a figure on the billboard, speak with facts such as products and word of mouth, adhere to subversive innovation, and the advertising cost was almost zero, which is Tesla.

Tesla CEO Musk once said, "Our energy will be poured into improving the performance of Tesla products, because we believe that the best way to sell products is to let people pass on the word of mouth." ”