From RMB 1.3299! Millet MIX 2S released, seven highlights achieved Kingship status;
Micronet collection reported on March 27
This afternoon, Xiaomi held a press conference at Baoshan Stadium in Shanghai and officially launched three new products: Xiaomi MIX 2S, Xiaomi Game, Xiaoai Speaker mini. It is reported that this is the first time Xiaomi’s new press conference was held outside Beijing.
Millet MIX 2S is divided into three versions: 6GB+64GB priced at 3299 yuan; 6GB+128GB price of 3599; 8GB+256GB exclusive version of the price of 3999; tonight to start an appointment at 6 o'clock, April 3 rice noodles first sold.
The three heavyweights each have their own characteristics, and the conference site has been continuously surprised. The micronet also summarizes the seven highlights of the conference:
Highlight One: Full Screen + Quad Curved Ceramics, Millet MIX 2S High Quality Design
In 2016, Lei Jun began to personally grasp the mobile phone supply chain, and then turned into a millet MIX series representing Xiaomi’s highest technology and design. It is reported that since the release of this department, the Xiaomi MIX has not only won numerous top international design awards, Pedou Art Center, Finland National Design Museum, Munich, Germany, the Museum of International Design collection of three world-class museum, can be called mobile phone artwork.
The millet MIX 2S continues its predecessor design language, using a full-screen 2.0 design. After lighting, the front is almost full of screens. The four-plane ceramic body is like a jade, elegant, and can be called a mobile phone artwork. As if holding a natural jade, light and elegant, feel good.
At the press conference, Lei Jun emphasized the importance of design. He said that at the time of the two sessions he proposed the importance of design. Looking around the world, countries all over the world are actively adopting innovation to gain new development momentum. Innovation is the source of human progress and is the country’s prosperity. The core power, and design power is an indispensable component of innovation. To move forward from Chinese manufacturing to Chinese design.
Highlights II: Top Configuration: Snapdragon 845, 8GB+256GB
Configuration has always been the label of the millet phone, especially on the flagship model. The millet MIX 2S, is also the first domestic mobile phone equipped with Xiaolong 845 processor.
The processor's new generation 10nm LPP process, the highest frequency of 2.8GHz, 30% performance increase, so far the strongest mobile GPU Adreno 630, security Bunny comprehensive run up to 277178, performance leap to improve. AIE artificial intelligence engine, AI performance 3 times increase, Inception V3 AI image recognition test: Millet MIX 2S recognizes 27.3 images per second, iPhone X 12.5 per second.
In addition, the machine has a high memory with 8GB+256GB large memory combination, is currently the highest memory combination on the phone, called the ultra flagship supreme configuration.
In other respects, Xiaomi MIX 2S continues to support 6-mode and 43-band frequency, and it is suitable for networks in 226 countries and regions. The newly added Full Netcom 5.0 supports dual-card dual 4G dual VoLTE, and dual-card random access can enjoy high-speed Internet access. Mi Pay Support 36 cooperative banks pay card payments to cover all mainstream banks in China; support 12 types of bus cards to open and cover 60 city bus routes; you can also use the door card simulation function to use the mobile phone as an access control card.
Highlight three: optical zoom + AI dual camera, DXOMark test up to 101 points
In contrast to the past, Lei Jun spent a lot of time talking about the shooting of the millet MIX 2S, focusing on optical zoom and AI dual camera.
Based on the highly-acclaimed zoom dual camera, the rear camera of the millet MIX 2S is further upgraded to use the new Sony flagship sensor IMX363, with a pixel size of up to 1.4μm. It supports Dual Pixel full-pixel dual-core focusing technology from SLR. Hardware multi-frame noise reduction, millet MIX 2S can shoot pure picture quality in low-light environment, focusing fast and accurate.
The application of AI technology has also greatly improved the photo experience of the MIX 2S. The MIX MIX 2S camera can carry 25 tags, 206 smart recognition scenarios, and professional post adjustment. At the same time, it is also aimed at business. People are optimized, and subsequent OTA upgrade can intelligently identify PPT during photo shooting, enable super-resolution multi-frame synthesis, and ensure that the above text is clearly visible after zooming in. With millet MIX 2S, you don't have to worry about not reading the menu when traveling abroad. , Photographing with the camera can be performed in real time text translation and currency conversion.
The two-pronged approach of hardware and software has resulted in the excellent performance of the Mimic MIX 2S in dark-light backlighting. In the DXOMark, an authoritative global camera evaluation agency, the MIX 2S achieved good results with a score of 101 points, making it the best camera phone to date.
Highlight four: Support wireless charging, 99 yuan base subversion industry
The function of supporting the wireless charging of the Xiaomi MIX 2S was exposed long ago, but when it was truly a conference, it was still beyond anyone's expectations.
Millet MIX 2S has a 7.5W Qi efficient wireless fast charge, this efficiency is much higher than the iPhone X and Samsung S8. Lei Jun said that the fastest fast wireless charging can make the millet MIX 2S fully charged in 2 hours and 40 minutes.
In addition, this millet also introduced a wireless charger, which not only can charge MIX 2S, but also can charge iPhone X and other mobile phones. The price is only 99 yuan. And Samsung, Apple and other products up to four, five hundred yuan.
Some analysts said that millet into the field of wireless charging, 99 yuan base price or will once again accelerate and change the entire mobile phone charging industry, a huge impact.
Highlight 5: Little love voice assistant is powerful enough to have no friends
Prior to this, many rice noodles were impressed by Xiaomi's voice assistant. This time, Xiaomi MIX 2S comes with 'Little Love', and it has built-in acclaimed millet AI speaker capabilities. It supports screen blanking and wake-up, covering 6 categories and nearly a hundred voice operations. Skills, whether it is remote control of smart home, or to find photos of specific time, location, follow-up through the OTA upgrade can also voice control micro-letter.
Live demonstration, amazing ability to understand. Want to send WeChat while driving, want to make a call when cooking, want to turn off the lights before going to bed, those who do not want to open hands, do not want to do trouble, to the millet MIX 2S Optimized little love classmate, let complicated operation get a word.
This time, Xiaomi also introduced an artificial intelligence speaker that can listen to and speak. Xiaoai speaker mini. The audio has 35 million masses of music and high-quality audio books, can check the information, voice memo, schedule management, in a word control home appliances ... The price is only 169 yuan.
Highlight 6: Millet Gaming Gaming Performance Monster
In addition to mobile phones and small love speaker mini, millet also brings a professional game, it can be said that gaming performance performance monster.
Appearance, minimalist shape, no LOGO design on the front. 20.9mm, light and thin in the game book. All-metal hinges, suspended screen, office work is also not violated. 16 million color four-part keyboard + background atmosphere chassis lamp , Turn off the light when the professional fan, turn on the lights cool atmosphere.
Has a wide color gamut screen with a 15.6-inch ultra-narrow bezel, a high-end version of the Intel Core 7th-generation i7 standard pressure processor, discrete graphics NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 memory 6GB, 16GB DDR4 high-speed memory, expandable to 32GB, 256GB SSD+1TB mechanical hard drive, Support dual SSD expansion mode.
In terms of selling price, millet game is divided into two versions: i7+16G+GTX 1060 price is 8999 yuan, entry-level version is 5999 yuan (i5+GTX 1050 Ti).
Highlight VII: Laojue Lei Jun explains the whole process, showing personal charm everywhere
After counting the above six lighting points, the author believes that the biggest highlight of the conference is still the founder of Lei Xiaojun, himself.
Lei Jun is called a model worker. This is reflected in the conference. The current Lei Jun, which is currently a major cell phone conference, will be personally introduced. The whole process will be explained by one person. More importantly, Lei Jun is not only Can explain professional skills in the most easy-to-understand language, and humorous way to make live audience relaxed and happy.
In the past year, Xiaomi’s mobile phone was led by Lei Jun. In the Q4 quarter of 2017, Xiaomi’s global market increased by 96.9% year-on-year, and the Chinese market grew by 57.6%. Millet revenue also exceeded the 100 billion mark. Market share also entered the world 5. In addition, Xiaomi also independently developed and launched the first mobile phone chip, the S1, which currently has 6,324 patents.
2. Huawei releases P20 series mobile phones: refreshes the history of cell phone photographing;
Sina Mobile News Beijing time on November 27 evening news, Huawei held a new conference in Paris, France, launched the HUAWEI P20, P20 Pro, P20 Lite and the main ultra-high-end Mate RS four products. One of the P series mobile phone main design and photography , For the first time in the P20 Pro Leica three shots.
The protagonists of this press conference are three new models of the P series. The appearance of these three phones is unified. They all use double-sided glass, 'Liu Haiping' and vertical dual camera design. Huawei calls it HUAWEI FullView. Full screen, compared with iPhone X HUAWEI P20 series 'Liu Hai' to be shorter, but the three mobile phones have retained the 'chin' front.
This time, the P20 series also supports facial recognition technology. Huawei said P20's facial recognition can be recognized in all directions with 360% even if it is awakened by light. The official data P20 series face recognition speed is 0.6 seconds, compared with iPhone X and Samsung S9 must be fast.
Leica three-shot HUAWEI P20 Pro
The P20 Pro is the one with the highest specification in the P series. It uses a 6.1-inch 'bangs' full screen, equipped with a Kirin 970 processor, supplemented by 6GB of operating memory + 128GB body storage, and a battery capacity of 4000 mAh. The machine has three color combinations: bright black, sapphire blue, pink gold and aurora.
In terms of appearance, P20 Pro adopts frontal fingerprint recognition, and the fingerprint identification module is made very narrow and placed at the 'chin' of the mobile phone. The camera's rear camera vertical arrangement and flash, Leica logo, 'HUAWEI' logo and other elements are arranged in a row. , High degree of recognition.
In terms of photographing, P20 Pro uses VARIO-SUMMILUX-H 1: 1.6-2.4/27-80 ASPH optical zoom lens system, three Leica cameras.
Behind the HUAWEI P20, the camera behind the HUAWEI P20 has a 40 megapixel main lens and an aperture of f/1.6. The other two are 20 megapixels and 8 megapixels. Of the three lenses, 20 megapixels are responsible for the black-and-white architecture, 8 million megapixels. Telephoto camera, responsible for optical zoom.
In addition, the P20 Pro's photosensitive element is 1/1.7 inch, which is 170% of that of the iPhone and Samsung S9+, and 125% of the S9+.
In addition, the HUAWEI P20 Pro has been upgraded with AI algorithm and supports 500 scene recognition. In the portrait mode, it can achieve a similar iPhone X portrait light effect mode. In night photography, Huawei added a 'super night shoot' mode. The official said that the P20 Pro has an amazing IS0 102400 sensitivity, making it the industry's highest-sensitivity mobile phone. This mode can improve photo brightness at night and suppress noise at the same time.
Configure the conventional HUAWEI P20
The overall appearance of the P20 is similar to that of the P20 Pro. The screen size is smaller, and it is a 5.8-inch LCD screen. In terms of other hardware, the P20 also uses the Unicorn 970 processor, which matches the 4GB memory +128GB memory, but the P20 did not use the rear three. The specifications of the photo, but the use of 20 million pixels black and white + 12 million pixel color dual-lens combination, the battery capacity has also become 3400 mAh. Front camera is 24 million pixels.
The HUAWEI P20 is equipped with P20 Pro's 'Super Night Shot', AI recognition and other functions, but due to the lack of telephoto lens, zooming is less than P20 Pro. To sum up, P20 and P20 Pro compared to the screen size, camera specifications, There are varying degrees of changes in operating memory and battery capacity.
The evaluation agency DXO MARK gave the P20 camera a comprehensive score of 102 points, a camera score of 107 points, and a video score of 94 points. The comprehensive ranking ranked second in Russia and the first was the HUAWEI P20 Pro.
Middle and low end series HUAWEI P20 Lite
This machine is the lowest configuration in the P-series phones released this time. This phone was previously released in China, the country's version is named nova 3e. The machine uses 5.84 inches 2280x1080 resolution screen, equipped with Kirin 659 processor, Has 4GB of running memory and 64GB/128GB body storage is optional.
In appearance, the front of the HUAWEI P20 Lite also uses the 'Liu Haiping' design, but Huawei put the phone's fingerprint recognition module on the back of the camera. The back of the phone is made of glass, and the camera and other elements are the same as those of the P20 series. Arrangement.
The P20 Lite features a self-timer function, a front-end 24 million-pixel camera, and a beauty algorithm. The rear camera has a 16-megapixel camera and a 2-megapixel camera. The main lens is responsible for imaging. The secondary lens is responsible for depth information. The two lenses can work together. To achieve the first photo after focusing and other functions.
Porsche Design HUAWEI Mate RS
This Porsche-designed cell phone is an egg for this conference. This machine is affiliated with the Mate series. It is in line with the P20 Pro in terms of photography, and it is not the same as the P20 Pro in design.
The HUAWEI Mate RS is also inspired by the Porsche sports car design of the Rice Porsche. It is presented in an eight curved 3D hot bending glass process.
HUAWEI Mate RS also uses the Unicorn 970 processor. The screen adopts a 6-inch 2K resolution screen, and there are three kinds of unlocking methods: fingerprint on the screen, fingerprint recognition on the back and face recognition. This is the first time in mobile phones. Mate RS Similarly, after the Leica three camera, but the camera uses a horizontal arrangement, and the back of the fuselage with Porsche Design Logo. Color, Mate Rs a total of red and black two color, and a customized version of the phone shell.
HUAWEI Mate RS supports 10 W wireless fast charging, charging 80% faster than iPhone X wireless charging
The price you care about
The HUAWEI P20 (4GB+128GB) is priced at 649 euros (about 5050 yuan), the HUAWEI P20 Pro (6GB+128GB) is sold at 899 euros (about 6,995 yuan), and the Mate RS (6GB+256GB) is sold. The price is 13,189 yuan, 6GB+512GB is 2,095 euros (about 16,307 yuan) The estimated domestic price will exceed 10,000 yuan.
Finally there are Huawei gadgets
In addition to mobile phones, Huawei also released two headsets, a selfie stick and a smart bracelet. Two headsets and one smart phone are just like Apple’s AirPods, which lasted for 10 hours and costs 159 euros. (About 1237 yuan), the other is a wired headset, Active Noise Canceling 79 euros (614) Type-c interface; Self-portrait with front fill light; HUAWEI Band Pro 2 supports GPS positioning, heart rate detection, 5A waterproof and sleep detection The feature price is 99 euros (about 770 yuan).
Sina Comments:
Huawei P series mobile phones have always been fashionable. This time, they added the slogan of 'technology' in the slogan. Fashion refers naturally to the appearance. Since last year, Huawei has put a lot of effort into P-series color matching. Through the cooperation of the grass green, drilled blue to this year's gradient, all reflect Huawei's exploration of mobile phone color matching.
On the other hand, the P20 Pro is the industry's first three-segment camera that has been further improved in night shooting, portrait mode, AI recognition, etc.. Exploration in the field of photography has allowed Huawei to embody the slogan 'Technology' on the face. .
The only regret is that the P20 series did not do hardware upgrades in the processor, but only further developed the possibility of Unicorn 970 in the AI. Faced with the current operation of 200,000 Snapdragon 845 processor, Kirin 970 Sex can be used, but the advantages are not obvious. (Su Hang) Sina mobile phone
3. Reuters: The European market as a springboard Huawei and Samsung Apple to start a positive competition;
According to Reuters Beijing on March 28th, as the world's third-largest smart phone manufacturer, Huawei will launch its new flagship product, the P20 series, in Paris on Tuesday, local time. European market seeks new breakthroughs.
In the current European smartphone market, rivals Samsung and Apple have made great progress. However, Huawei's P20 series products, with their rich camera capabilities and aggressive pricing strategies, are trying to compete in the highly homogenized high-end smartphone market. Samsung Galaxy S9 and Apple iPhone X start a positive competition. (Compilation / Water)
4. Samsung's highest cost mobile phone? Galaxy S9+ hardware cost exposure;
IHS Markit dismantled the Samsung Galaxy S9+ and discovered that due to the upgrade of the dual-lens design and the increased cost of DRAM, the cost of hardware is increased by approximately 13% over the previous generation Galaxy S8+, which is arguably the most expensive Samsung mobile phone...
According to IHS Markit's disassembly analysis of Samsung Electronics' latest smartphone, the Galaxy S9+, its bill of materials (BoM) costs about 13% more than the previous generation Galaxy S8+, mainly due to DRAM and NAND flash memory. The cost increases, and Samsung upgraded its dual-lens mechanical aperture camera module for the new S9+ smartphone.
IHS Markit's dismantling analysis estimated that the BoM cost of the Galaxy S9+ is approximately US$375.80, which is approximately US$43 more than the Galaxy S8+. The 64GB version of the Galaxy S9+ is priced at US$839.99 on Samsung’s official website.
Andrew Rassweiler, senior director of cost benchmarking services at IHS Markit, said: 'Although the Galaxy S9+ has a higher cost structure, it offers consumers better specifications at a price equivalent to the Galaxy S8+, including a brighter screen and advanced Camera technology. '
IHS Markit also found that the Galaxy S9+ is one of the first smartphones equipped with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 845 processor, which contains an LTE CAT18 modem chip.
The 'Galaxy S9+ and Sony Xperia XZ2 were the first smartphones to use the Snapdragon 845,' said Wayne Lam, IHS Markit’s chief analyst for smartphones. 'But Samsung designed the RF front-end interface, and Sony’s phones use Qualcomm’s. RF360 solution. '
According to IHS Markit, the Snapdragon 845 can provide peak LTE speeds of up to 1.2Gbps - supporting 6-carrier aggregation (CA) and 4x4 MIMO. IHS Markit said the device is manufactured using Samsung Foundry's second-generation 10nm process technology, complete chipset Including Qualcomm's support components, the cost estimate is about $67.
Equipped with the first variable aperture system
The Galaxy S9+'s 12-megapixel dual-lens camera includes the first variable-aperture system built into the smartphone. IHS Markit said that the smartphone's camera module BoM costs a total of $44.95, of which $34.95 comes from the new The main camera.
Rassweiler said: 'The Galaxy S9+ smartphone features an unexpected main camera module, and its manufacturing cost is much more expensive than most of our previous camera modules. From this perspective, the camera technology improvement is still smart phones. Manufacturer's main budget focus and performance differentiation factors. '
In the process of dismantling the Galaxy S9+, IHS Markit also discovered an upgrade of the security features of the phone, including a new 'wisdom scan' mode for unlocking the phone. The dismantling report shows that the upgraded version of the Galaxy S9+ AMOLED The display material costs about 79 dollars, which is the highest cost component in the entire mobile phone.
IHS Markit has not dismantled and analyzed the Galaxy S9, another smaller size of the Galaxy S9+ series. French System Plus Consulting discovered several hardware innovations of the Galaxy S9 earlier this year, but several industry analysts and markets Observers also criticized the phone as being too similar to its predecessor, the Galaxy S8.
Compilation: Susan Hongeettaiwan (Original text: Teardown Finds Big Increase in Galaxy S9+ BoM, by Dylan McGrath)
5. Apple released 9.7-inch new iPad domestic sales starting at 2,588 yuan;
Sina Technology News March 28th morning news, Apple's spring education theme conference held at the Lain University of Technology preparatory high school in Chicago. Apple announced the launch of a Touch ID, support Apple Pencil's 9.7-inch 'student' iPad. Silver , Deep space gray and gold three colors, 32GB version wireless LAN models priced at 2588 yuan.
Apple official introduction, the new 9.7-inch iPad is equipped with a retina display, A10 Fusion chip and a variety of advanced sensors.
In terms of appearance, the new iPad is not a full screen rumors, but rather biased toward the previous Air models.
Functional aspects have added more educational elements, such as Pages added Smart Annotation functionality.
It is reported that the new iPad offers silver, deep space gray and new gold appearance. In China, 32GB wireless LAN models sell for 2588 yuan, 32GB wireless LAN + cellular network models sell for 3588 yuan. Apple Pencil purchased separately for 748 yuan.
It's worth noting that if students buy it, they can enjoy the discount. Apple said that the school’s purchase price for the new iPad is 2388 yuan and the price for buying Apple Pencil is 668 yuan. (Dapeng)
6. Legend Holdings disclosed the listing of its five largest assets;
After every reporter Li Shaoting edited the text on March 27th at midday, Legend Holdings (03396, HK) disclosed its annual results for 2017: Integrated business income was RMB 316.3 billion, which was a 3% increase from the same period of last year, and net profit attributable to the mother was RMB 5.048 billion. Yuan, which is 4% higher than the same period of last year. As an investment-driven enterprise, Legend Holdings adopts the “strategic investment + financial investment” two-wheel drive strategy. In 2017, its strategic investment partially attributed to its net profit decline of 26%, and its financial investment increased by 42%. %.
Zhu Linan, executive director and president of Legend Holdings, told reporters including the “Daily Economic News”: “We will actively prepare for the listing of suitable assets for spin-off in the past year and in the first half of this year. We are now prepared for H-shares. Listed, also prepared to list on the A-shares.
In 2018, Legend Holdings has a nodal significance. According to related regulations, its assets will be available for spin-off after June this year. In the afternoon of March 27th, the company also disclosed some of its shares. Asset listing plan.
Strategic investment net profit decline
According to the 2017 Annual Results Announcement disclosed by Legend Holdings, in 2017, Lenovo’s strategic investment and financial investment revenues recorded 315.649 billion yuan and 653 million yuan, respectively, both of which rose compared to the same period. However, unlike the net profit in 2016 results, Contributions to 'run in tandem', the announcement indicated that the strategic investment sector returned to its parent's net profit of 2.004 billion yuan in 2017, a year-on-year drop of 26%, and the financial investment segment returned to its parent net profit of 4.128 billion yuan, up 42% year-on-year.
Legend Holdings analyzed in the announcement that, on the one hand, it was due to the strong growth in the net profit contribution from financial investment, and on the other was due to Lenovo’s continued increase in the cost of global parts costs, and the US government’s December 22, 2017. Promulgation of tax deduction and employment bills to delay the impact of income tax assets.
According to the 2017 earnings announcement of Legend Holdings, the IT segment turned from profit to loss. In 2017, the net profit of the parent company was a loss of 246 million yuan, and in 2016 this figure was 1.335 billion yuan. 'IT segment Lenovo Group's business is still in the process of adjustment and recovery. ' Zhu Linan said.
However, Legend Holdings is also looking for new business pillars to reduce the impact of IT segment performance on the overall. During the 2016 performance briefing, Zhu Linan stated that Lenovo is trying to create a new pillar outside the IT business. After 2017, In development, the main force in the contribution of the strategic investment sector to net profits has changed.
Among them, the net profit of the financial services sector in 2017 was RMB 1.646 billion, which was a year-on-year increase of 7%. 'We continue to build new pillar assets, such as through strategic investments, holding the Luxembourg International Bank (BIL). ' Zhu Linan said, After the acquisition is completed, the asset structure of Legend Holdings will be greatly improved, and the share of 'Lenovo' (IT segment) may recover to a level of 25% to 30%. This will result in a more balanced asset structure and reasonable rationale for the overall asset allocation of the company. There is a great advantage of ', and the current IT sector business assets in more than 50%.
In addition to the financial services sector, Zhu Linan expressed the hope to create a portfolio that will drive the rapid growth of the company's value. 'Financial sector, which has a larger body ... but it has a relatively slow growth rate. Both agricultural and food products may bring about rapid growth. '.
In the next 3 years, we will step up our efforts to split the market.
In 2018, Legend Holdings has a nodal significance. According to relevant regulations, Legend Holdings can only split its subsidiary's A-share listing after it is listed in Hong Kong for three years. By the end of June 2018, Legend Holdings will be listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Full three years.
In 2017, Lenovo’s capital operation was started. For example, the acquisition of Jiawo (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., a company listed on the GEM of Shenzhen Stock Exchange, was completed, creating the first strategic industrial listing platform for the agricultural and food sectors. Legend Holdings passed a wholly-owned subsidiary. The new materials held by the subsidiary company also showed signs of 'listing', and the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ investment in overseas investment and asset management institutions - Guoke Holdings' strategic investment of 850 million yuan was introduced.
In the past year and the first half of this year, we will actively prepare for the listing of the appropriate assets for spin-off. We are now preparing to list on the H-share market and prepare to list on the A-share market. These projects are actively preparing. At the performance announcement, Zhu Linan told reporters including the "Daily Economic News" that: '2018, 2019, and 2020's three years hope to gain an incremental value by splitting up their assets and increase the company's performance. The entire level of liquidity and cash flow, to further create a good value for the company'.
Zhu Linan disclosed that the financial services sector of Zhengqi Finance is considering the listing of H shares, and Lakala is preparing to list on the A-share market. It has entered the final stage and new materials in the new materials section are also actively preparing for 2020. On the A-share market, Xinrongyi, the fruit sales platform of the Agriculture and Foods segment, is also considering the listing of A-shares. In addition, Ning Xiao, senior vice president and chief financial officer of Legend Holdings disclosed that the Eastern Airlines Logistics of Lenovo Holdings’ previous strategic investment is also planned to A-share listing, 'Hope to declare in 2019'. Daily Economic News
7.Google announced the acquisition of the GIF platform Tenor to strengthen the image search engine;
According to CNBC Beijing time on March 28th, Google has acquired Tenor, the GIF platform, and added a dynamic image library for its huge Internet search engine.
Google announced on its blog Tuesday that it will acquire Tenor at an undisclosed price and plans to integrate GIF into Google Pictures and Gboard input methods. Google said it plans to keep Tenor independent.
'Now, most people use Google Images to find more information for a topic, helping them to communicate and express their own ideas. For example, we see the search volume of GIF images reaching millions of times a day,' said Google Image Engineering Director Kathy. · Cathy Edwards said in the blog post, 'We are constantly improving Google's pictures to meet these needs. Today, we further integrated GIF images with the acquisition of Tenor.'
GIF is increasingly popular on Android, iOS, and desktop platforms. As of last year, Tenor has more than 300 million users. In February this year, the number of monthly search requests exceeded 12 billion. Tenor also has an expanding advertising business for fast food chain brands. Don Donutley, Nissan Motors and AT&T and other companies produce sponsored GIFs.
Previously, Tenor has already received more than 30 million U.S. dollars in venture capital.