Time passed very quickly. In the blink of an eye, more than a month had passed.
The 520 Shopping Carnival that had been prepared for many days was about to begin!
In this month, Fang Tian did not do anything and lived a leisurely life.
On the website, the number of users and shops on the e-commerce platform had skyrocketed!
On the other hand, he was waiting for news from Omni-reach's boss to see when they would surrender!
Early in the morning, Fang Tian, who was wearing a red sweatshirt, was running around the villa.
At this moment, at the villa's entrance, a servant shouted with a mobile phone, saying that there was an incoming call.
Fang Tian immediately ran over, reached for the phone and answered it.
As soon as the call was connected, Lin Keqing's pleasant voice came through. Her tone had a hint of excitement, "I have good news for you!"
Fang Tian smiled and asked, "What good news?"
Lin Keqing laughed, "Take a guess?"
Fang Tian vaguely guessed that it must have something to do with the express delivery acquisition. "Did the boss of the express delivery company agree?"
Lin Keqing smiled and said, "Omni-reach's boss finally couldn't take it anymore. They want to meet with you!"
Fang Tian's face lit up with joy! "Where to meet?"
"Farm Mountain Villa."
Fang Tian was stunned, "Where is this place?"
"I'm not sure about the details."
After chatting with Lin Keqing for a while, Fang Tian hung up the phone and returned to the villa for breakfast.
After breakfast, Fang Tian turned on his computer and searched for "Farm Mountain Villa" online.
Angel Search was the largest search engine in the country, and it was also an application under Soft cloud company.
However, this place could not be found in Angel Search.
In this era, there were no internet companies to make maps. It was impossible to search for a shop or hotel's location on the internet.
Map applications were completely blank in this era.
Fang Tian touched his chin and thought for a long time. Then, he got up and returned to the company.
Soft cloud headquarters, Vice President's Office.
Under Soft cloud, Du Fei was in charge of the Angel series software. He was the Senior Vice President of the Angel Business Group.
He was also in charge of Angel Browser, Angel Antivirus, Guardian Angel, and Angel Search.
Du Fei shook his coffee cup and said with a smile, "Boss, you haven't come back to work for a month!"
"I can be lazy because you guys are trustworthy!"
Du Fei really admired him. He could even justify slacking off.
Fang Tian smiled and said, "I've only been late two days a year."
"Only two days?"
"Yes, Tian Tian!"
"Haha!" Du Fei and the other members of the team laughed out loud.
Joking around and relaxing was already the team culture of Soft cloud companies.
"Is there anything important that you came back for?"
The brothers in the team were very familiar with Fang Tian's style. He usually didn't come back, but when he did, he definitely had something important to tell them.
Fang Tian cleared his throat and his expression turned serious. "I did come back because I have something very important for you to do."
"Are you going to develop a new application?" Du Fei asked.
"That's right." Fang Tian nodded.
"What application?"
Fang Tian reached out his hand and quickly typed two words on the keyboard.
Map.
Du Fei looked at the screen and raised his eyebrows. "Is it important?"
"Very important," Fang Tian said, "This is an indispensable part of Soft cloud's e-commerce empire."
Thinking back to his previous life, map applications were fought over by all the internet giants. Baidu had its own Baidu Maps, Tencent also had Tencent Maps, and Ali bought Gaud at a high price.
Ali bought Gaud for 1.4 billion USD. It was not a small price to pay for a map application.
For a large internet company, maps had a very important strategic position. With them, O2O could be developed.
Takeout, hotels, travel, and so on needed to rely on the accurate location of maps.
Also, as a technical application, maps were very difficult to develop and required a lot of skill. It was unlikely to be replicated.
The underlying data was very valuable. To put it bluntly, it controlled the entire country and even the entire world's map data. Other companies could at most create a fake account and use the map data of a professional company.
Even if developing a map application required a lot of money, Fang Tian still wanted to do it.
Currently, Fang Tian's world had not entered the mobile internet era. Users mainly used computers and satellite positioning to access the internet. Normal users could not access the internet yet.
Therefore, it was impossible to use satellite positioning to search for nearby shops and takeout.
Currently, Fang Tian only asked the team to do a simple map search. They could search for cities, streets, distances, and so on.
They could also use satellite images and aerial images.
In this era, it was already very impressive to be able to create maps like this!
When Google launched its maps, it became popular all over the world in just a few years.
Fang Tian decided on the name of the map. It would be called Angel's Map.
The development of Angel's Map was handed over to Du Fei's team. Feng Yu believed that it would not be long before the basic version of Angel's Map was released.
With this map application, Soft cloud's software could easily enter the international market and become as popular as Google's Map. Foreigners would be able to see China's maps!
In the afternoon, Fang Tian drove to Farm Mountain Villa.
Because there was no good map for the time being, he asked around for a long time before he found this place.
Lin Keqing also accompanied him. Her pink Beetle was parked beside her.
At the same time, the boss of Omni-directional arrived. Five cars were parked in the open-air parking lot.
Boss Zhao, Boss Qian, Boss Sun, Boss Li, and Boss Chen got out of the car one after another.
Fang Tian smiled and walked over to shake hands with them. "Long time no see, everyone!"
Zhao Guohua smiled bitterly. "In the end, we still can't beat you."
As he spoke, he shook hands with Fang Tian.
The other bosses came over to shake hands.
Since losing orders from the e-commerce platform, Omni-directional Express's business volume had plummeted. The company's value was also plummeting.
If this continued, the company would go bankrupt sooner or later. No one would want one billion, let alone six billion.
The five bosses, Fang Tian and Lin Keqing walked into the restaurant together.
Standing in front of the long table, Fang Tian smiled and looked at them. "Are you sure you want to sell the company to me?"
Boss Chen smiled helplessly. "Other than selling to you, is there a better choice?"
The other bosses nodded and agreed to sell the company to Fang Tian!
Lin Keqing had already prepared the contract and placed it in front of the five bosses.
They looked at it seriously for a long time before signing their names.
Similarly, Fang Tian also signed his name.
Soft cloud Group would purchase 100% of Omni-directional Express's shares at a price of 30 billion!
Omni-directional Express's warehouses, vehicles, and 100,000 couriers and company employees would all belong to Soft cloud Group!
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