Chapter 422 Hongda Electronics

When the Devonshire was still on its way to China, Barron had received a message from Finn Hudson, CEO of Global Industrial Investment Fund (GII).

At this time, Finn Hudson was already in Taiwan Province, China.

After hanging up the phone, a smile appeared on Barron's face.

He stopped stroking his hand on Alya's silky hair and patted her shoulder.

When the girl with a delicate face and Arab style looked up at him, from Barron's perspective, he could see that the girl kneeling in front of him was wearing a maid outfit.

Compared to Alia's tall figure, the size of this maid outfit is a little small. Not only does the hem only reach above her knees, but it is also tightly stretched across her chest.

"Your Highness, we...can't do this."

When Barron asked Alia to hold the railing of the bed and then admired the Arab girl's amazing waist-to-hip ratio from behind, the girl had already realized what was going to happen next and couldn't help but speak out.

Well, it seems that she is quite into the role...

"My loyal maid, I just want to help you check..."

As he said this, Barron opened the cover of the "book" and began to wander in the ocean of knowledge...

"No, don't... stop!"

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The Devonshire landed at the capital's airport, and the convoy carried by this large aircraft took them directly to the courtyard house near the east gate of the Forbidden City.

The renovation and reconstruction here was completed two months ago. This "Little Duke's Mansion" is different from the other "Duke's Mansion" with four courtyards. Although the interior decoration is based on the new Chinese style, the home decoration is still more modern in style.

The "Duke's Mansion" has mostly restored the ancient Chinese style except for a few modern appliances, and the furniture is mainly made of mahogany, many of which are mahogany furniture from the Ming and Qing dynasties that Barron commissioned a local named Yan Hegui to collect for him.

It is worth mentioning that the use of modern appliances in the decoration of these courtyards is naturally indispensable. After all, living here, Barron at least cannot go to the toilet outside like the previous residents, or let the servants empty the toilet...

On the second day, Barron met the CEO of GII Fund who came to Yanjing.

"Although the process was not easy, we finally completed the acquisition of High Tech Computer Corporation. I have already reached a preliminary agreement with Philips in the Netherlands. The next step is to discuss this matter with Huaxia Electronics Group."

During this meeting, Finn Hudson reported to Barron in more detail about his work during this period.

In the second phase of the GII Fund, they raised up to $12 billion, so what they need to do next is to spend the money...

Of course, although Finn Hudson is the CEO of the GII Fund, he is also very clear about his position, which is the executor of Barron's will.

When Baron chose the CEOs of his funds, he looked for experienced people who were good at execution, rather than "helmsmen" with their own unique personalities and ideas.

It was almost 2006, and Barron knew that although there were many models of so-called "smartphones" on the market, these models that looked "weird" in later generations were definitely not the right way to open the smartphone era. After all, almost all smartphones currently had not given up the physical keyboard, and their control method could be said to be not accepted by the public on such a small mobile terminal as a mobile phone.

Now that IC Capital has acquired Android, what it needs to do next is to prepare for the coming era of real smartphones.

After all, coming from his previous life, he understood how magnificent this era was - Apple used this to become the company with the highest market value in the world. Even after Jobs was gone, it continued to "live off its past capital", but it did not affect its huge profits and rising market value at all.

In the era of smart phones, existing mobile phone brands have also undergone a major reshuffle. The once popular brands such as Nokia, Motorola, Ericsson (now Sony Ericsson), Philips, Siemens, etc.

More than a decade later, except for Samsung, which is still doing well, the rest have either disappeared from the market or are struggling to survive like Sony...

Of course, Sony is a little different. After all, it is the "belief" of some people. Even if the mobile phones launched in the future are as good as shit, there will still be people shouting "It's so good"...

Back to the topic, after Finn Hudson's fruitful trip to the Netherlands, he went to China's Taiwan Province, where he encountered some challenges, but eventually used his "superpowers" to complete the acquisition of High Tech Computer Corporation.

The Chinese name of High Tech Computer Corporation is Hongda International Electronics Co., Ltd. This name may be unfamiliar to everyone, but in two years, they will change the company name from High Tech Computer Corporation to HTC Corporation...

Yes, this company is HTC, the company that launched the first Android smartphone in Barron's previous life and achieved great success.

However, HTC is still a company that mainly does OEM. It was only two years later that they started to create their own brand, namely HTC.

HTC was founded in May 1997 in Taoyuan, Taiwan Province by Wang Xuehong, two other investors, and nine engineers.

Wang Xuehong is the chairman of the board of directors of this company. It should be noted that Wang Xuehong has another identity. She is the daughter of Wang Yongqing, the founder of Formosa Plastics Group, who is known as the "God of Business" in Taiwan Province...

This was also the main difficulty for GII Fund to acquire HTC. After all, although HTC's development was still mediocre at that time and its market value was not high, its chairman was the princess of Formosa Plastics Group and was not short of money...

Of course, to say that the current HTC is very ordinary is only when compared with other major mobile phone manufacturers that have their own brands. In a certain specific field - smartphones, HTC still has some fame.

When HTC Electronics was first established, it did not have any very successful products and was not well-known. It was not until it collaborated with Compaq to develop the iPAQ, a PDA that was once listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the most powerful PDA, that the product became a hit and truly established its leading position in the PDA market, gradually becoming the world's largest PDA OEM manufacturer.

As a foundry, their biggest customers at this time are big brands like HP, Dell and Palm.

In addition, in 2002, Microsoft announced the Pocket PC Phone Edition operating system, and HTC immediately developed the world's first PDA Phone equipped with its system...

Although this product was not purchased by major manufacturers such as HP and Dell, it was favored by most European telecom operators and they signed a large number of orders with HTC. After its launch in Europe, it also achieved good sales, gradually increasing HTC's reputation in the industry.

With this opportunity, HTC gradually became the world's largest Win Mobile smartphone OEM manufacturer, monopolizing 80% of the market share and providing OEM smartphone services to major European and American telecom operators, including a full range of services from design to production. The final product will only be marked with the operator's logo. From then on, HTC officially became a global OEM manufacturer.