Chapter 428 Authentic

"Authentic?"

"Yes, have you forgotten? In the list of fingerprint recognition companies I asked you to collect, AuthenTic is at the top."

Seeing Ivanta's surprised expression, Barron said calmly.

"I remember... but I was a little confused at the time. Could it be that... you are going to configure fingerprint recognition on your mobile phone? But the current technology is completely unable to achieve it!"

The company they were talking about, called AuthenTec, was founded in 1998. Their main product is fingerprint scanners.

AuthenTic holds many patents covering fingerprint recognition chips, chip packaging, software and end use.

As Ivanta said, the current fingerprint recognition is indeed still far away from being applied on mobile phones. Otherwise, it would be impossible for no mobile phones to use this function until now.

In fact, as early as 1998, Siemens demonstrated its own fingerprint recognition mobile phone.

The fingerprint technology of this phone comes from Bromba Company. Although it is only a prototype and has not been mass-produced, it proves to the world the possibility of fingerprint recognition on mobile phones.

Until Barron's previous life, the Motorola Atrix 4G [ME860], which was launched in April 2011, was the first smartphone to have fingerprint recognition. However, until then, these fingerprint recognitions were all sliding (also called scratching). way to identify.

Then in 2012, after Apple acquired fingerprint sensor manufacturer AuthenTec for $356 million, the IPhone 5S they launched the next year could be called the world's first mobile phone equipped with push-type fingerprint recognition. .

"Yes, the current technology is still far from being able to put fingerprint recognition on mobile phones, but I hope to start planning and conducting targeted research from now on, and AuthenTic is a related company that I am optimistic about."

Sorry, Steve Jobs, who asked you to help me go through some roads in advance...

So I can only cut off my beard one more time.

It is worth mentioning that the current scale of AuthenTic can only be said to be acceptable. They will not IPO until 2007. When Apple acquires this company, the price of US$356 million is relative to its market value. , the acquisition was made at a premium of 60%.

According to relevant evaluations, if this company is currently acquired, the price will not exceed US$50 million.

Ivanta is still very convinced of Barron's decision. The previous questions were just that she wanted to know more.

After the two reached an agreement, she left New York and started the acquisition of AuthenTic.

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After Barron went to Los Angeles to spend a few days with the Hearst sisters, Rebecca and their daughter, and paid attention to the affairs of technology companies in Silicon Valley, he left the United States and returned to London.

When I returned to London, it was already October.

He was catching up with the listing of Argent Real Estate Group - a few months ago, Argent Real Estate Group started the IPO process. This time, Argent Real Estate Group will publicly issue 171 million shares, accounting for 15% of the headquarters capital after the issuance. %.

October 3rd is the day when Argent Real Estate Group officially logs onto the main board of the London Stock Exchange.

The sponsor of Argent Real Estate Group's listing this time is Barclays Bank, which finally determined the issue price of their shares at 5.5 pounds. Based on this calculation, after Argent Real Estate Group's listing, its market value will exceed 6.27 billion pounds.

On the day of listing, the share price of Argent Real Estate Group performed well. The opening price exceeded 6 pounds, the highest intraday price exceeded 6.5 pounds, and finally closed at 6.37 pounds on the day, an increase of 15.8% compared with the issue price.

In this way, the market value of Argent Real Estate Group reached 7.26 billion pounds.

DS Holdings and the Devonshire Family Trust under Barron's name hold a total of nearly 300 million shares of Argent Real Estate Group. At this time, its value has reached 1.911 billion pounds, which can be said to be a huge gain.

At the same time, due to the issuance of shares, the proportion of shares held by DS Holdings and Devon Hill Family Trust has been diluted from the previous 31% to 26.35%.

It can be said that the entire Argent Real Estate Group's IPO listing process was relatively successful, so the group's shareholders, including Earl Bute, are also very satisfied with the result.

Because the 171 million shares of Argent Real Estate Group they publicly issued this time are all new shares, and there is no part sold by the original shareholders.

The current stock price is higher than the stock issuance price, which also allows other shareholders to choose the opportunity to reduce their holdings at a better price - of course, this is for those shareholders who want to cash in their Argent Real Estate Group shares.

Neither the Bout family nor Barron are prepared to reduce their holdings of Argent Real Estate Group shares in the short term, but for them, the increase in the value of their holdings will also help them use these shares for financing loans.

"My dear wife, don't work too hard. After all, you are not just alone now..."

When Barron returned home, he saw that his newlywed wife Bonnie Stuart had returned early, but when he saw her, she was handling official business in the study, so he couldn't help but remind her.

"I know, honey, I just have something to do and send them an email."

Bonnie said with a sweet smile on her face when she saw Barron walking in.

After she finished sending the email and closed the computer, she saw Barron coming over to help her stand up, and she couldn't help but smile:

"I won't have difficulty moving yet. Don't worry, dear, I have already begun to arrange for most of the work to be completed by my subordinates, and recently hired another assistant. If the company operates normally, it will not There’s going to be so much going on.”

Now, Stuart Media is on the right track.

As well as their previous shows Strictly Come Dancing and Sparkling Life, new shows are already lined up.

The second season of "Strictly Come Dancing" has ended. In the second season of "The Shining Life", Bonnie can no longer play the role of host, but the new host's current performance can also satisfy her.

As for the new show, a grassroots talent show called "Britain's Got Talent", both the guest commentators and the host have been confirmed.

Yes, this program was from Barron's previous life. In 2007, it was first launched in England. After the overwhelming response, many countries, including the United States and China, purchased the copyright to produce the "Talent Show".

It was still the creative idea provided to Bonnie by Barron. Even the commentators and hosts of this show were found by Stuart Media according to Barron's idea (the original lineup of time and space).

At that time, Bonnie had not yet discovered that she was pregnant, so she personally handled the planning and invitations to the show.

However, after she found out she was pregnant, she could no longer take on too much work, and slowly handed over the main work of this new program to her subordinates.

TalkbackTHAMES, which was previously acquired by Stuart Media, will produce "Britain's Got Talent", and Bonnie will also pay attention to the progress of this show and try to make it a hit.

"Baby, you have to adapt to life with bodyguards accompanying you. You know, what happened on the London subway before, safety is the most important thing now."

Hearing Barron talk about this topic, Bonnie looked at him helplessly:

"Okay, I will, just don't make it too grand."

Although Bonnie is now working behind the scenes most of the time, she is still considered a public figure.

Especially after marrying Barron, the most popular Duke in England, it can be said that every move he makes attracts much attention.

Correspondingly, some recent changes in her figure have also been photographed by reporters, so the news that the Duchess, known as the "Rose of England", is pregnant, has also appeared in many media reports.

Bonnie is Barron's real wife, so there is no need to hide this kind of thing.

But regarding her safety, it is of course worth noting that Barron has carefully selected two female bodyguards for her protection, and every time she goes out, a team of security personnel will follow her to protect her.