Tencent’s two mysterious executives were paid nearly 2.6 billion yuan last year, not among directors or top management
On April 21, Yun Toutiao reported that Tencent will distribute more than $200 million (about 1.274 billion yuan) to each of two executives who have not disclosed their specific identities in 2021. The company said in its annual report that its two highest-paid individuals were not among the directors or most senior executives. One of them was about HK$1.599 billion and the other was about HK$1.589 billion – equivalent to US$204 million and US$203 million respectively.
That puts the pair among the 20 highest-paid executives in the U.S., with Tesla Inc founder Elon Musk and Apple CEO Tim Cook topping the list. For example, according to the list of consulting firm Games One, the top ten CEOs of game companies with the highest income in the world have an entry threshold of US$10 million. And the revenue data of 204 million and 203 million US dollars, two Tencent executives can be ranked 2 and 3 respectively, second only to Playtika CEO Robert Antokol’s 372 million US dollars, more than Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick’s 155 million US dollars.
At present, Tencent has not publicly disclosed the names of the two executives. It is understood that Tencent’s most outstanding talents include Zhang Xiaolong, who is known by the industry as the father of WeChat, and Ren Yuxin, the head of the game business.
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JD Cloud, Baidu Cloud, and Kingsoft Cloud had negotiated mergers, but ended in failure
The entire Internet and cloud computing circles are completely unaware of a conspiracy that is enough to change the market structure.
That is, Liu Qiangdong, Lei Jun, and Robin Li almost joined forces in 2019 to complete the merger of Jingdong Cloud, Kingsoft Cloud, and Baidu Cloud.
Those who knew the overall situation of the matter that year can be counted on two hands. During the entire negotiation process, only a few people from the three companies participated, and most executives were unaware of it.
The behind-the-scenes history of the merger can be seen in “The “cloud” giants who killed Alibaba and Tencent: conspiracy to merge, difficult transformation”
Several Huawei executives have changed: Vice Chairman Guo Ping has been adjusted to Chairman of the Supervisory Board
According to the news on April 21st, the Qichacha APP showed that on April 21st, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. underwent an industrial and commercial change, and vice chairman Guo Ping was adjusted to the chairman of the board of supervisors. Peng Zhongyang and Tian Feng were adjusted as employee supervisors, Yi Xiang, Li Jinge, and Yin Xuquan resigned from their positions as supervisors. Bloomberg and Li Jianguo were added as directors, Shi Yanli, Ma Qingqing, and Luc were employee supervisors, and Yang Li was appointed as supervisor.
Meituan prefers to withdraw from the four northwestern provinces of the city, leaving only the base camp in Xi’an
On the evening of April 20, many consumers in the northwest region found that the surrounding Meituan preferred self-pickup points had been closed one after another. Locate in Chengguan District, Lanzhou, Gansu, and click on Meituan to see the announcement at the top of the homepage, saying that from April 21, 2022, the service you are in will be temporarily suspended.
According to Jiemian News, it was learned from multiple sources that the four northwestern provinces, including Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, and Xinjiang, will be closed one after another, and Shaanxi Province, the “base camp” of the Northwest Region, will be retained. Inner Mongolia belongs to the North China Region and is also unaffected. An industry source said that the reason for the withdrawal of the city is that the operating costs are too high. In addition to the four northwestern provinces, Meituan will also make small adjustments in other regions.
As of press time, Meituan has not yet responded. The media called Meituan’s preferred customer service number, and the response was only “optimization and adjustment”. The customer service said that the platform has suspended the service in order to continuously optimize the user experience and provide stable and reliable next-day delivery service, but “the specific recovery time still needs to wait. Platform notifications.”
Meituan preferred from entering the Northwest Region to leaving in just over a year. At the beginning of 2021, Meituan will expand its cities to five northwestern provinces including Qinghai and Ningxia. A number of industry insiders said that Meituan’s community group buying business in the northwest continued to lose money, which should be the reason why Meituan chose to retreat. And Xi’an, the capital of Shaanxi Province, as the only mega city in the northwest with a population of over 10 million, has been retained in this northwest regional adjustment.
The US SEC added 17 companies including Ideal Auto, Shell, and Luckin to the pre-delisting list
On April 22, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) added Li Auto, Best Group, Shell and other companies to the “pre-delisting” list on April 21, local time. This is the fifth batch to be included in the list since March. China Concept Stock Company.
The specific list is: Zhihu, Novartis Furniture, LOVARRA, Wanchun Medicine, Luckin Coffee, Aurora Mobile, Scientific Energy, China Foods, Value Exchange International, Jersey Medical Group, Entrepreneur Universe Bright Group, China Belgium Energy, China Net Zaxian, AMTD International, Best Group, Lili Auto and Shell. The SEC claims that the deadline for the 17 companies to submit their defenses is May 12, local time.
Gome responds to the conflict with Midea employees: Jinan branch has been asked to express condolences to Midea employees and will continue to cooperate with Midea
On April 19, an official letter signed for Midea Group in China stated that due to the “physical beating” of employees of Midea by Jinan Gome branch employees on April 15, Midea’s entire category will be fully withdrawn from Gome Jinan branch from now on. Withdrawing all GOME Jinan branch Midea Group stationed shopping guides, suspending all categories of shipments to GOME Jinan branch.
On the evening of April 21, Gome issued a statement saying that the incident resulted in a disagreement between Gome’s Jinan store managers and Midea’s shopping guides regarding the compliance of Midea’s promotional materials store placement, which resulted in a dispute and developed into a physical conflict. .
Gome said that Gome’s headquarters in Jinan has asked the leaders of its Jinan branch to offer condolences to the employees of the United States, and according to the company’s system, it will seriously deal with the relevant responsible persons at all levels involved, and notify the whole company of warnings to prevent such incidents from happening again. Gome will continue to cooperate with the vast number of manufacturers including Midea. (Interface News)
Xiaohongshubei was exposed to layoffs: some employees were notified of the last day that day, compensation N+1 but no year-end bonus
Many Xiaohongshu employees broke the news on Maimai and were suddenly notified of the last day. There was only notification, no room for communication. The compensation method was N+1, but they could not get the year-end bonus – Xiaohongshu usually publishes performance at the end of April every year. Year-end awards. Some Xiaohongshu employees revealed that the overall layoff was 20%, and various departments were affected. Many fresh graduates and probationary employees were affected, and employees in Beijing and Shanghai companies were laid off. But there are also sayings that it is a normal inventory optimization, which belongs to the elimination at the end, fattening and thinning, and recruitment will start after optimization, but the recruitment volume is not large. A job seeker told the media that he had passed the interview before, but was told that there was no HC; another job seeker said that he received a recruitment call from Xiaohongshu headhunter a few days ago.
In this regard, Xiaohongshu explained that this is to carry out the annual performance appraisal of the company as usual, and to replace the normal personnel based on the results of the annual performance appraisal, and the employees with unqualified performance usually account for about 10%. There are about 200 employees, accounting for about 9% of the total number of employees.
In addition, the company also stated that the company is properly conducting negotiation work with the above-mentioned employees, conducting one-to-one communication, negotiating with them to terminate the labor relationship in accordance with the labor law and other relevant regulations, paying N+1 economic compensation, and doing a good job in protecting the rights and interests of employees. . At present, the number of employees and business development of Xiaohongshu are generally stable.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences has disabled HowNet: only the abstract can be viewed, the paper cannot be viewed or downloaded
According to students of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Sciences has suspended CNKI on April 21. Today, when I log in to the CNKI account of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, I find that I cannot read the paper or download it, only the abstract is supported. The student said that the download was still available yesterday, but it should be disabled today.
Previously, in response to the news of being suspended by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, CNKI issued a statement on April 19 in response that CNKI will continue to provide normal services to the institutes affiliated to the Chinese Academy of Sciences until the agreement is signed and services are activated in 2022. (IT House)
Byte’s Watermelon Video sued Tencent for infringement, claiming 8 million yuan
Because a large number of WeChat official accounts released pirated copies of the movies “My Hometown and Me” and “My Fathers and Me” without authorization, Xigua Video sued Tencent for copyright infringement and unfair competition, claiming 8 million yuan. The complaint alleges that Watermelon Video enjoys the exclusive rights to the two films involved. The case has been accepted by the Intellectual Property Court of Hainan Free Trade Port and has not yet opened. (Securities Times Network)
Intense competition in food delivery services, Didi Foods will withdraw from the Japanese food delivery business
Didi Foods issued a notice saying that it will end its food delivery service in Japan on May 25 (Wednesday). According to the Nikkei News, Didi Foods has provided food delivery services in Japan since 2020. The company has fierce competition with Uber Eats and Demaekan, and the number of users seems to be unable to increase. Didi said that in the future, the company will focus on taxi dispatching business and continue to focus on serving drivers and passengers in the Japanese market. (Interface News)
Qutoutiao: The service and maintenance of the We Media Creation Platform will be stopped on June 30
On April 21, Qutoutiao issued a notice: Based on long-term content planning, the service and maintenance of the WeMedia creation platform will be stopped on June 30, 2022. On April 21, 2022, the content upload portal will be offline, and the published content will still be calculated based on exposure. The withdrawal time for personal accounts will end on June 28, and the deadline for non-personal accounts withdrawals depends on the situation of the epidemic; author accounts that have not withdrawn within the due date will be deemed to have automatically forfeited the account income, and the account balance will be automatically cleared after June 28.
CATL: Net profit in 2021 is 15.931 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 185.34%
On the evening of April 21, CATL disclosed its 2021 annual report: During the reporting period, the company achieved a net profit of 15.931 billion yuan attributable to shareholders of the listed company, a year-on-year increase of 185.34%; the company plans not to distribute cash dividends, no bonus shares, and no Transfer of provident fund to share capital. It was announced on the same day that the company plans to invest in the Xiamen Times New Energy Battery Industrial Base Project in Xiamen City, Fujian Province, with a total investment of no more than RMB 13 billion.
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Apple was ordered to pay consumers 7,000 yuan in compensation for iPhone 12/13 without a charger
According to Tecmundo, a Brazilian judge, Vanderlei Caires Pinheiro, ruled that Apple had engaged in an illegal “collaboration sale.” According to Article 39 of the Brazilian Consumer Protection Law, “combination sales” is an abusive and prohibited practice in Brazil, so the separate sale of mobile phones and charging plugs is not allowed. In this case, Apple sold an iPhone model and a charging plug separately to a consumer in Goiania, and was found guilty and required to compensate the user 5,000 reais (about 7,000 yuan).
Apple argues that users are not required to buy a charging plug. Although the iPhone uses a Lightning connector, the supplied charging cable is a Lightning to USB-C connector, so any USB-C charging plug will work. Apple further stated that it stopped providing charging plugs for environmental reasons.
However, Judge Pinheiro insisted that the charging cable provided with the iPhone could not be used with other charging plugs, so consumers had to buy Apple’s products. Previously, Apple had been fined $2 million (about 12.84 million yuan) by Brazil for canceling the gift of charging plugs.
Google Play Store App Store New Deal: From May 11th, third-party call recording applications will be banned
Xda-developers. reported that Google’s updated PlayStore policy lists several upcoming changes to the Accessibility API. One of the changes, which will prevent third-party app developers from using the API to implement call recording, will go into effect on May 11.
It is understood that AccessibilityAPI is not designed for remote call recording, nor can it be required to do remote call recording. During a recent developer webinar, Google clarified that the change will only affect third-party apps.
However, if the phone has pre-installed call recording, the feature will continue to work. This upcoming change will only apply to third-party apps on the PlayStore that specifically use the Accessibility API to enable call recording. The Google Phone app that offers built-in call recording is not affected by this change. (IT House)
How serious is the core missing? CEO of ASML: Some companies have already bought washing machines to remove chips
Lithography machine giant ASML CEO Peter Wenning said at the company’s earnings report on Wednesday, Eastern Time, that a large industrial group has begun to buy washing machines and disassemble the semiconductors for their own chip modules. Wenning did not name the company, but said the company had only disclosed its plight to him the previous week.
In addition, Wenningk revealed that a major Chinese chip maker has sold out of its full capacity by the end of 2023. “The demand we’re seeing right now comes from a lot of places in the industry, it’s so broad. We’re grossly underestimating the breadth of demand. I don’t think that’s going to go away.”
Amazon cloud computing executive: no plans to spin off from Amazon, open to mergers and acquisitions of all sizes
Adam Slipsky, Amazon’s head of cloud computing, said he is not ready to spin off the lucrative AWS cloud computing unit. “We’re not going to spin off the cloud division right now,” Selipsky said. “We think AWS as part of Amazon will serve our customers very well.” While AWS has made small acquisitions in the past, Sely The unit is currently open to deals of all sizes, Pulsky said. (Sina Technology)
TSMC wins multi-year exclusive OEM order for Apple’s iPhone A-series processors
According to reports, TSMC has successfully won the exclusive OEM order for Apple’s iPhone A-series processors for many years through integrated wafer-level fan-out packaging (InFO) and the one-stop service of the front-end advanced process. For the iPhone 14 in 2022 (tentative name), it is expected that the InFO_PoP packaging technology used in the flagship A16 processor will enter the Gen 7 generation, and the enhancement of the heat dissipation capability of the increasingly powerful application processor (AP) is the main progress. (interface)
Musk’s tunnel manufacturing company, Boring Company, completes Series C financing at a valuation of nearly $5.7 billion
On April 21, The Boring Company, an American infrastructure and tunnel construction company founded by Musk, raised $675 million in Series C financing at a valuation of $5.675 billion. The company said Wednesday that the proceeds will be used to ramp up hiring across divisions.
The Austin, Texas-based company plans to expand its engineering, operations and production workforce to scale up its Loop project. The company said the round was led by Vy Capital and Sequoia Capital, with participation from Valor Equity Partners, Founders Fund, 8VC, Craft Ventures and DFJ Growth. (Interface News)
Apple plans to expand children’s messaging safety features to UK and Canada
Apple is planning to expand its communications security feature in Messages to the UK. The Communication Security feature in Messages was introduced in the iOS 15.2 update released last December, but until now the feature has been limited to the US.
The feature is designed to scan iMessage images sent and received on children’s devices for nudity and warn them that such photos can be harmful. If nudity is detected in a photo received by a child, the photo will be blurred and the child will be provided with resources from child safety groups. Nudity in a photo sent by a child will trigger a warning telling the child not to send the image. Leifeng Network Leifeng Network
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