Breaking news! Chen Tong left Xiaomi as the president of Phoenix New Media and A Little Information

Lei Jianping reported on October 26

After joining Xiaomi for nearly 2 years, Chen Tong, former executive vice president of Sina and editor-in-chief of Sina.com, chose to return to the media. Lei Di Network recently exclusively learned that Chen Tong will leave Xiaomi in the near future, return to the media, and serve as the president of Phoenix New Media and a little information.

Chen Tong's choice of Phoenix New Media and a little information president can be regarded as a peaceful breakup with Xiaomi, because Xiaomi has a lot of cooperation with Phoenix New Media, and Xiaomi is also an important shareholder of Phoenix New Media.

In July 2016, OnePoint and oppo, a mobile phone manufacturer, reached a strategic cooperation, and according to the agreement, Little Information issued D round preferred shares to OPPO's affiliates in exchange for OPPO's pre-installed information mobile phone application service on its smartphone.

After the signing of the agreement, a little information will cover the entire line of OPPO models. Specific cooperation includes:

1, OPPO full line of mobile phones in the desktop pre-installed a little information APP, can achieve at least 100 million terminal pre-installed. 2, OPPO browser and a little information to carry out content customization cooperation, OPPO users can directly get personalized reading services through the browser.

Previously, Xiaomi has pre-installed a little information on its full range of mobile phones and tablet products. In addition, ecological chain services such as Xiaomi Video and Xiaomi Literature have gradually opened up.

Informed sources broke the news on Leidi Network that Chen Tong joined Phoenix New Media this time at the invitation of Phoenix New Media CEO Liu Shuang, chen Tong as the president of a little information, phoenix new media hopes to use Chen Tong's influence to vigorously develop a little information business.

Chen Tong is the soul of the domestic portal era, who has been on Sina for seventeen years, is the first wave of people to introduce the concept of online portals into China and create brilliance, and has made indelible contributions to laying the status of Sina as a gateway in China, and has been praised as the "godfather of China's network news".

Chen Tong's management has always been known for its strictness, and editors are often prone to fines once they make mistakes. However, on the second day after Chen Tong publicly announced his resignation, Chen Tong returned all the fines he had imposed on editors in the past, which touched many Sina editors.

After Chen Tong left Sina, it caused a great shock in the Internet industry. In fact, after Chen Tong left his post, it had a great impact on the development of Sina Portal business, and since then, the seriousness and real-time nature of Sina Portal news have declined to a certain extent.

Chen Tong, who is an angel investor in Xiaomi, chose Xiaomi after leaving his job. In November 2014, Chen Tong was officially appointed as the vice president of Xiaomi's content investment and operation. Xiaomi plans to invest $1 billion in the content industry in the first phase, led by Chen Tong.

Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun's first task to Chen Tong is to solve the video content problem of Xiaomi TV and box together with Xiaomi co-founder Wang Chuan, so that the content on the Xiaomi TV box is more and more abundant, and the user experience of the box and tv becomes better.

Nowadays, Chen Tong has helped Xiaomi invest in Youku Tudou and iQiyi in the past two years in Xiaomi, and has also helped Xiaomi rise to a higher level at the content level.

In February 2015, Chen Tong represented Xiaomi at the financing conference of Little Information, when Phoenix New Media increased its stake in Little Information to 46.9%.

As the second largest shareholder of a little information, Chen Tong said on behalf of Xiaomi at the scene that a little information has made a breakthrough in the logic of information circulation, and using the information engine as the underlying technical support will be a platform-level information platform.

Chen Tong also said that good content, good platform, good channels, coupled with user active participation, mutual understanding and mutual promotion in all dimensions of the industrial chain, to establish a pan-media ecosystem, members of this system will have more room for development.

Nowadays, Chen Tong's handling of a little information is not only logical, but also Chen Tong's milestone in Xiaomi's mission and the beginning of a new journey.

It is reported that just before Chen Tong joined Phoenix New Media, Liu Zhen, former senior vice president of Uber China, also chose to join the domestic cutting-edge enterprises today's headlines and will become a core executive. This also means that Chen Tong and Liu Zhen will have a fierce confrontation on the content line.

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