According to foreign media reports, Skype and Kazaa co-founders Niklas Zennstrom will visit China with Baidu, Alibaba, Lenovo, China Mobile, China’s technology industry executives and many other important people to meet.
Following this is the recent co-founder of Facebook, CEO Mark Zuckerberg (Mark Zuckerberg) visit to China later, another visit to China’s technology industry giants, but Zuckerberg is different, Zennstrom on the Chinese market is not new.
44, Zennström, and Skype co-founder of another Janus Friis, the current holders of Skype 14% of the shares, and is Skype’s board of directors.
It is reported that, Zennstrom visit to China, TOM Online will also visit the office. TOM Online Skype is responsible for operations in China. But Zennstrom said the purpose of the visit to China has nothing to do with Skype, but rather to understand the current status of the Chinese domestic market and explore the Chinese company and supported by Atomico innovative partnerships between enterprises possible. Atomico is Zennström in London to set up a venture capital firm, Zennström currently serves as CEO of the company. Atomico At present, enterprises in the European market to invest in innovation.
Not long ago, the Chinese government announced that it would illegal VoIP operators to fight. Although there is no evidence that Skype is the object of the combat, but also against some of the media that the scope of the Skype.
Zennstrom told the Wall Street Journal said in an interview, such as SkypeVoIP services should not be seen as a threat to the traditional telecommunications industry. He said: “People are not less because of the emergence of VoIP phone calls, in fact, people calling from the number of annual continues to increase, the telecommunications industry continued to develop.”
Zennstrom said Skype users in China is one of the first user. Skype was founded in China the number of users has more than any other country, in part because a large number of Chinese users have relatives overseas.
Zennstrom also pointed out that as China’s domestic market size is too large, many companies will not consider the foreign market. In contrast, Sweden’s small domestic market, many companies have set his sights on the international market. Only in the internal Chinese market, China’s technology companies face competitive pressure is not small. He also praised China’s technology companies in new technologies from abroad has done well, but on the protection of intellectual property rights to be strengthened.
