Chapter 369

Electronic dictionaries have always had a market. In his past life, a whole bunch of brands like Wenquxing, Haojixing, Fast-Translate, Noah, and Celebrity emerged domestically. In Japan, there were also brands like Canon, Sanyo, Sony, Sharp, and Casio.

Not only domestically and in Japan, but in places with a demand for learning English, German, and French, such as Korea, India, and Siam, electronic dictionaries were quite marketable before the rise of internet education websites like Xueersi, Genxue, Haoweilai, and Zhonggong Education. It was no problem to enjoy the dividends for a few years.

Among them, the demand for electronic dictionaries in Korea and Japan once reached over 70%, which included working professionals and those in occupations related to foreign trade.

For them, the electronic dictionary was not only for learning but also a part of work. They even carried it with them when traveling abroad or discussing business, using it as a translator.

For the special national conditions of India, English was too important for Indians. Without English, it was almost impossible to climb up and become a member of the true one hundred million population of India.

There were also other regions that needed to learn Spanish, German, French, Russian, and other languages. Electronic dictionaries would be able to sell well in the next few years. Of course, the largest market was definitely the domestic market. Electronic dictionaries were once equated with Japanese handheld game consoles, and the demand was imaginable...

The market for educational auxiliary equipment has always existed and will continue to exist, not only domestically but also overseas.

In the future, there will also be point-reading machines, Youdao dictionary pens, and other products. Youdao's annual revenue from selling hardware products like Youdao dictionary pens, translation kings, and Youdao cloud pens can exceed over a billion.

For Dongling Gao Ke, the repeater and electronic dictionary were transitional products, allowing the Dongling Gao Ke technical department, as well as companies like Dongxin Semiconductor, to continue to improve their R&D capabilities and obtain more funding.

But at the same time, it was also a process of technical accumulation. With the technology developed for repeaters and electronic dictionaries, in the future, Dongling Gao Ke and Feiyan Technology would also be able to rely on accumulated technology to launch products like MP3s and handheld game consoles. The market for these two products was much larger than the scale of repeaters and electronic dictionaries, and they could be sold worldwide.

In addition, they could take the opportunity to develop SD memory cards that could be used for mobile phones, MP3s, repeaters, electronic dictionaries, and other electronic products!

Developing solid-state drives was very expensive. Shenzhou Storage couldn't rely on just one type of USB flash drive to conquer the world; it also needed other products, and SD memory cards were perfect.

In his past life, Japan's Toshiba, Panasonic, and SanDisk formed the SD Association alliance, controlling the global patents and standards for SD memory cards. After the explosion of products like mobile phones, cameras, handheld game consoles, tablets, MP3s, and dash cams, the entire SD memory card market scale exceeded 15 billion US dollars. Companies like Toshiba and SanDisk made a fortune relying on patents and standards.

If Toshiba, SanDisk, and Panasonic could do it, why couldn't Dongling Gao Ke? Dongling Gao Ke had now also formed a global USB flash drive alliance, bringing in IBM, Philips, PNY, and Toshiba as allies. Taking over the SD memory card standard was only logical, right?!

Li Dongling marked down the words "repeater," "electronic dictionary," and "SD memory card," and then let out a long breath.

"Shen Yunjun is really going to win the championship!"

At this moment, a burst of fierce cheers came from the TV, and Yao Luoying said to Li Dongling.

Li Dongling raised his head and saw the scoreboard in front of Shen Yunjun being revealed. The number of votes on it actually reached 2.92 million. These votes were all SMS votes. One mobile phone number was limited to ten votes, and one SMS vote cost one yuan, but this number of votes was still quite exaggerated!

"Let us congratulate Shen Yunjun on becoming the national champion of Super Girl!"

Cheng Qian was also shouting loudly at the scene. Gold paper filled the sky like golden rain, covering the entire stage, and the camera flashes below the stage were flickering crazily.

It wasn't very obvious in Pingyang, but if you went to big cities like Yanjing or Yangcheng, you could probably hear fierce cheers on the streets at this time. And in domestic universities, the cheers coming out at this time were even louder. Young people cared much more about this. Many years later, when they recalled tonight with three or five friends, they would probably look at each other and smile. This represented the memories and youth of young people...

At this time, whether it was the central media, the Hanxi Provincial Station, or Focus Media, none of them were listed, otherwise, given the ratings of this competition, the stock price would have long since risen to the sky.

But even so, when the newspapers were opened the next day, whether it was entertainment newspapers, or economic, sports, or even political newspapers, they all reported on the Super Girl competition from last night and the champion.

Opening any newspaper at random, except for a few official media outlets, the rest of the newspapers and magazines almost all chose the photo of Shen Yunjun holding the championship trophy in the golden rain as the cover.

"Last night's Super Girl ratings exceeded 11.65%, breaking the ratings of all domestic variety shows, with an estimated audience of over 85 million, and possibly even breaking through 100 million!"

"Focus Media Company made over ten million RMB overnight!"

"For yesterday's grand final, the organizers Focus Media, central media, and Hanxi Provincial Station had direct revenue exceeding ten million RMB. The Super Girl grand final held three rounds of SMS voting, with a total of over 11 million SMS votes, and the first Super Girl had a cumulative total of over 24 million SMS votes!"

"Shen Yunjun has directly ascended to the ranks of international singers. Many overseas media outlets in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and other places have published news of Shen Yunjun winning the championship. Shen Yunjun has become one of the most well-known female stars in Southeast Asia!"

"Many record companies, including Rock Records, PolyGram, Warner, and Forward Music, are fighting to sign Shen Yunjun, and the signing fee has broken sky-high prices!"

"Many TV stations have announced the launch of singer talent variety shows!"

The media reported overwhelmingly from all aspects. Some reported that Shen Yunjun became popular domestically overnight, and some reported that the organizers made a fortune this time.

Relying solely on SMS voting, they earned 20 to 30 million. This didn't even count advertising revenue. Some media speculated that Focus Media, which proposed the Super Girl project, made at least 50 million in profit, and possibly far more!

But no matter how much, with the help of Super Girl, Focus Media, the first to eat the crab of SMS advertising, successfully sat firmly on the throne of the number one SMS advertiser in the country!

Li Dongling, in the car heading towards the Torch Group, flipped through several newspapers. Even local newspapers like the Pingyang City Daily and Pingyang Daily could not be exempt. Of course, this was also related to Shen Yunjun being from Hanxi. Today, the media within Hanxi Province were all firing on all cylinders, crazily praising the newly promoted Super Girl champion.

Li Dongling looked at Shen Yunjun in the newspaper and touched his chin. Shen Yunjun winning the championship was good for Dongling Gao Ke. As the parent company of Focus Media, they could get her advertising endorsement at a cabbage price, letting her endorse the Little Smart phone, which could stimulate some sales.

If the lighter currently being promoted by the Torch Group wasn't a mass-market lighter that wasn't very suitable for celebrity endorsement, Li Dongling would have liked to use Shen Yunjun's current attention to promote the Torch Group.

However, when the Torch Group launches mid-to-high-end lighters in the future, they can let Shen Yunjun help promote them. Referring to how many years the champion of the second Super Girl in his past life maintained her top-tier status, Shen Yunjun's level of attention is expected to be maintained for many years.

As one of the companies invested in and supported by Dongling Gao Ke, Focus Media has now completely made a name for itself. Now, businesses like SMS advertising, TV shopping, outdoor advertising, and variety show copyrights are all in full swing.

Especially the claim made by Focus Media that they want to incubate 100 brands on the Focus Media platform. Diweis, which has risen relying on Focus Media, is already the number one underwear brand in the country, and Focus Media claims it wants to incubate 100 more like Diweis, which inevitably makes the outside world think wildly...

Now, Focus Media's reputation is no worse than companies in the Dongling Gao Ke system like Feiyan Technology, BYD, and Hanxi New Materials. It might even become one of the first companies under Dongling Gao Ke to go public!

Shangguan Town has now been renamed Shangguan Economic Development Zone. A large number of development zones have emerged in Hanxi and even the whole country, but there are only a few in Hanxi Province that can attract the attention of multiple departments in Yanjing, and Shangguan Economic Development Zone is one of them!

The entire Shangguan Development Zone is now a large construction site, and it is a large construction site formed around the Torch Group. Everyone in the entire Shangguan Development Zone is destined to be inseparable from the Torch Group, regardless of whether they work at the Torch Group.

The car turned a corner. Li Dongling had walked this road many times before when it was still the Shangguan Town Component Factory. Now, he was naturally familiar with the road, but it also felt somewhat strange.

Because the previous road couldn't be considered a bad road, but it could barely be considered a cement road, and there were potholes on the road, and the maintenance wasn't very good.

But now, it had suddenly turned into an asphalt road that could accommodate four lanes. This road and the large-scale industrial park that appeared before Li Dongling's eyes were both part of the Torch Group!

The entire Torch Group had not been fully completed, but the main production workshops, warehouses, office buildings, canteens, and dormitories had all been built. The shadow of the former component factory could no longer be seen at all.

The car drove all the way into the Torch Group. The people who could be seen inside the entire Torch Group were all in a hurry, obviously busy with the sale of lighters.

"Brother Li... Chairman Li!"

When entering the office building, a figure saw Li Dongling and immediately called out happily, then noticed the person next to him and hurriedly changed her words.

Li Dongling saw the person and smiled, "Hongying!"

The person in front of him was Wei Hongying, who had been with Li Dongling at the Xicheng Wireless Factory No. 1. Not only her, but many people from Xicheng Wireless Factory No. 1 had run to the component factory to help assemble "Stargazing" satellite dishes to earn living expenses when the factory stopped work and stopped paying wages back then, and finally stayed at the component factory and became employees of the current Torch Group.

The person standing next to Wei Hongying, seeing the gaze cast by Li Dongling, thought of the fate of Liu Jiande and his son Liu Shirong, the general manager of Xicheng Wireless Factory No. 1, and Qin Fang couldn't help but feel a burst of tension, her face turning a few shades paler.

(End of chapter)