I Become A Noble in England

"F**K, why are you here..."

After receiving the call, Barron sent a car to pick up the two girls and took them to the mansion in The Holme, and said to the Hearst sisters in a somewhat frantic manner.

"You're getting married, so why can't I come?"

Amanda raised her head and said through gritted teeth, her eyes full of unwillingness.

Barron felt even more awkward when he heard her words. He looked at his sister Lydia behind her. The girl did not avoid his gaze at this time, but the gloating look in her eyes did not escape Barron.

"Shouldn't you have expected this before? Baby..."

Uh, withdraw it. If I say that, it will probably anger this girl even more.

"Baby, although... well, you know what's going to happen, but I promise that my love for you... your love will not change at all, and I can also promise that one day I will let you wear a wedding dress and become my bride..."

After Barron hugged Amanda and said some sweet words to her, the girl's expression finally showed signs of thawing...

"What about me?"

Lydia's voice rang out, 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, but after hearing the conversation between her sister and Barron, she struggled a few times and cursed.

However, the initial anger was clearly no longer 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!"

Barron originally thought that this "episode" was over, but he didn't expect that Amanda... and Lydia would still insist on it.

What is this for?

Are you going to have sex with your wife?

Mess around!

But when I think about it, it feels a bit exciting...

Well, Barron suppressed such thoughts. He certainly couldn't leave these two unstable factors until the wedding day. Who knew what these two daughters of the Hearst family could do.

There is no other way, a real man can only devote himself to his work until his death...

Come to think of it, this is Barron's first time to learn knowledge with his two sisters.

It is true that the learning effect is different from when they are alone. Anyway, the atmosphere is so good, coupled with his strong learning ability, it ultimately succeeded in filling both of them with positive energy.

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"Fingerworks, the company you asked me to acquire before, has recently been contacted by Apple again, hoping to acquire them from IC Capital. This time they offered a price of 50 million US dollars."

After the Hearst sisters' "raid", Barron called Ivanta with lingering fear. Well, at least he could ask indirectly whether this woman would also take a "trip on impulse" before he got married...

Fortunately, Ivanta, who was more rational, focused more on his career, but because of this, Barron received 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, FingerWorks' development in the past few years was not smooth.

In the late 1990s, the popular touch screen products were mainly LCD single-point touch technology. The invention of multi-touch technology made it difficult to produce truly mature and cheap products under the hardware conditions at the time.

In 2000, FingerWorks, like many startups, was still worrying about what kind of products the company would make and how to make a profit.

By chance, they met an investor named Jeff White who was good at business operations at an investor meeting. After watching their technology demonstration and patent situation, Jeff White proposed to join the company and promised to help them make profits on the condition that he would be responsible for the management and operation of the company.

Under the management of Jeff White, FingerWorks began to contact companies such as IBM, Microsoft, and NEC.

However, these companies were not very interested in this patent with "advanced" ideas that were difficult to produce for ordinary consumers with the technology at the time. Therefore, the promotion of FingerWorks was not smooth.

In the catalog of some technology companies that Ivanta provided to Barron before, he unexpectedly saw the name of FingerWorks, and the keyword "multi-touch" in its introduction triggered Barron's memory.

Right away, IC Capital bought the company directly for US$20 million.

Sure enough, shortly afterwards, in April of this year, Apple found Ivanta, hoping to buy FingerWorks from IC Capital.

At that time, IC Capital had already gained 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 realize that it was still difficult to bypass FingerWorks' patents in the field of multi-touch through its own research and development, so it raised the acquisition price again to $50 million. Compared with such a patent that does not seem to have much practical application, it is 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?"

Hearing Ivanta's question, Barron smiled and said:

"Yes, baby, but we can propose another plan to them. FingerWorks can permanently license the multi-touch patent technology to Apple and work with them on subsequent research and development. But there is a condition, that is, both parties jointly own the patent rights for the subsequent technology."

FingerWorks' current multi-touch technology still needs to be improved, and it is unlikely that it can rely on this to hold Apple back. At most, it can create some obstacles for them and postpone the development of their smartphones.

But on the one hand, Barron himself holds a considerable stake in Apple, and the withdrawal of the iPhone is also extremely important for the arrival of the subsequent smartphone era.

The only point is that it is impossible to sell FingerWorks to Apple. IC Capital owns Android, and the future Android camp also needs such a technology.

"Is this technology important?"

After spending so much time together, Ivanta already knows Barron very well. The technology that he has mastered must not be very simple...

"Yes, baby, it can be said that this is one of the keys to an era."

"Well, besides, I heard Amanda went to London..."

Well...