Chapter 417 FingerWorks
"F**K, why are you here..."
After receiving the call, Barron sent a car to take the two girls to the mansion in The Holme, and said to the Hearst sisters in a somewhat frantic manner.
"You are getting married, can't I come?"
Amanda raised her head and said through gritted teeth, her eyes full of unwillingness.
When Barron heard her words, he felt even more troubled. He looked at his sister Lydia behind her. The girl did not avoid his sight at this time, but the look of gloating in her eyes did not escape Barron.
"Shouldn't you have expected it before? Baby..."
Uh, withdraw, if you say that, I'm afraid it will anger this girl even more.
"Baby, although... well, you know what will happen soon, but I promise that my love for you... your love will not change in any way, and I can also guarantee that one day I will let you wear it. Put on a wedding dress and become my bride..."
After Barron hugged Amanda and talked sweetly for a while, the girl's expression finally showed signs of melting from the ice...
"what about me?"
Lidia's voice sounded, and Barron gritted his teeth and gave her a gentle look:
"The same to you……"
"S**t, you are such a bastard, scumbag, Barron!"
Amanda had already smiled at first, but after hearing the conversation between her sister and Barron, she struggled a few times and cursed.
However, there was obviously no initial anger in these words.
"Okay, honey, I'll stay with you for a few days, and then go back to New York and wait for me, okay? I'll be there soon..."
"No, I want to attend your wedding!"
Originally, Barron thought that this "interlude" would be over like this, but he didn't expect that Amanda...and Lydia would still persist.
What is this for?
I want to have a wife who is currently newlywed...
Fuck!
But think about it, why does it feel a bit exciting...
Well, Barron suppressed such thoughts himself. He definitely couldn't leave these two unstable factors until the wedding day. Who knows what these two daughters of the Hearst family can do.
There is no other way, a real man can only work hard and die...
Speaking of which, this is the first time Barron has spent time with his two sisters... to learn knowledge.
It is true that the learning effect is different from when alone. Anyway, the atmosphere is full, and coupled with his super learning ability, he finally succeeded in filling the two of them with full of positive energy.
…
"The company Fingerworks you asked me to acquire before, Apple recently contacted us again and hopes to acquire them from IC Capital. This time they quoted a price of US$50 million."
After the "raid" by the Hearst sisters, Barron called Ivanta with lingering fear. Well, he could at least make some inquiries about whether this one might also be there before he got married. Let’s take a “travel as soon as you want”...
Fortunately, Ivanta, who is more rational, still focuses more on her career, but because of this, Barron got such news.
In 1998, two technicians from the University of Delaware invented multi-touch technology. Shortly thereafter, they registered a small company and started their business. This little-known company was called FingerWorks.
However, the development of FingerWorks in the past few years was not smooth.
In the late 1990s, the popular touch screen products at that time were mainly liquid crystal single-touch technology. The invention of multi-touch technology was difficult to produce truly mature and cheap products under the hardware conditions at the time.
In 2000, FingerWorks, like many start-ups, was still worrying about what kind of products the company would make and how to make profits.
By chance, they met Jeff White, an investor who is good at business operations, at an investor meeting. After seeing their technology demonstration and patent situation, the latter proposed to join and promised to help them make profits, under certain conditions. You are responsible for the management and operation of the company yourself.
Under the management of Jeff White, FingerWorks began contacting IBM, Microsoft, NEC and other companies.
It's just that these companies were not very interested in patenting "advanced" ideas that were difficult for ordinary consumers with the technology at the time, so the promotion of FingerWorks was not smooth.
In the catalog of some technology companies that Ivanta provided to Barron before, he accidentally saw the name of FingerWorks, and in its introduction, the keyword multi-touch triggered Barron's memory.
At that moment, let IC Capital directly buy the company for US$20 million.
Sure enough, not long after that, in April this year, Apple found Ivanta and hoped to buy FingerWorks from IC Capital.
At that time, IC Capital already had a relatively high reputation in the industry because of its acquisition of DoubleClick. Apple offered a price of US$35 million, but Ivanta rejected it.
Then three or four months later, Apple seemed to be self-conscious about multi-touch, and it was still difficult to bypass FingerWorks' patents in its own research and development. It raised the acquisition price again, to US$50 million. Compared with what it seems now, For a patent that doesn’t have much practicality, it’s already a high price…
Of course, this is for other people.
Barron understands how important this multi-touch technology is for future smartphone control.
“Do we continue to reject them?”
After hearing Ivanta's question, Barron smiled and said:
"Yes, honey, but we can propose another plan to them, that is, FingerWorks can permanently license the multi-touch patented technology to Apple and conduct subsequent research and development with them, but there is one condition, and that is Both parties jointly own the patent rights for subsequent technologies."
The current multi-touch technology owned by FingerWorks still needs to be improved, and it is not possible to rely on this to block Apple. At most, it will create some obstacles for them and delay the development of their smartphones. .
But on the one hand, Barron himself holds a considerable share of Apple, and the exit of the iPhone is also extremely important for the subsequent arrival of the smartphone era.
The only thing is that it is impossible to sell FingerWorks to Apple. IC Capital owns the Android company, and the future Android camp will also need the existence of such a technology.
"Is this technology important?"
After being together for so long, Ivanta already knows Barron very well. The technology that he can hold in his hands must not be so simple...
"Yes, honey, it can be said that this is one of the keys to an era."
"Well, besides, I heard Amanda went to London..."
Well……
