Silicon Valley

After Henry's order was issued, the ICQ company quickly ran at full speed and began to develop virtual communities and design various virtual items! At the same time, the ICQ game platform is also preparing to develop and independently develop chess and card games Texas~~ Poker, Bridge, Chess, Go, Baccarat, Landlord...

The most popular chess and card game in the United States is Texas ~~ Poker, which can be said to be popular throughout the United States.

Baccarat is popular in Europe, but Doudizhu is not called this name now. It originally originated in the Hanyang area of ​​Wuhan, Hubei, and was called "Run Fast".

In order to speed up the development progress, ICQ began to expand, recruiting a large number of program developers!

"Los Angeles Times" made a special report on this, saying that ICQ company interviews hundreds of people every day. ICQ company is so eager to expand, what is the intention?

The outside world is speculating that after ICQ joins the Nicholas Group, there will definitely be big moves, but at present, ICQ has not disclosed any news to the outside world. ICQ company spokesman said, ICQ has occupied the largest market share in the field of instant messaging, the company will be based on ICQ instant chat software for diversified development! ! !

The addition of ICQ makes Nicholas International E-Commerce Company even more powerful!

Through the marketing of wishlists, the number of online shopping users has surged, and PayPal's users have now exceeded the 10 million mark, making payments or transfers every day, making PayPal's capital flow more than one billion US dollars. PayPal collects renewal fees from it, and it has already made a lot of money!

In particular, the Internet has connected the world, and the international transfer business has increased, and the role of PayPal has become increasingly prominent: not only is the procedure simple and fast, but also the transfer cost is low, so it is favored by many international trading companies! Currently, PayPal is used as a third-party payment throughout Europe!

In the United States, there are various third-party payment methods imitating PayPal, but PayPal occupies more than 90% of the market share.

AOL is also involved in e-commerce - the AOL market. Their payment method is AOLPay. American Online Market is supported by FedEx and UPS, with 10% and 15% stakes respectively! Therefore, AOL is in the logistics segment. Still doing great!

In addition to the US online market, the American Peapod Company moved the non-staple food store to the PC as early as 1989, and then saw the rapid development of the Nicholas shopping network and became a company with a market value of over 10 billion. So stimulated, I decided to make a big effort in this industry, and now it has developed into the third largest e-commerce company in the United States!

At the end of 1990, the fourth largest e-commerce website in the United States was called J.C.Penney website. This was the first company to enter the Internet for a physical department store, and the website developed rapidly. Soon to surpass Panpo. Ranked the third largest e-commerce company in the United States!

The above three companies, in addition to the US online market using its own AolPay, does not support PayPal, the other two e-commerce companies have chosen to support PayPal.

Using PayPal can already be used to charge phone bills, and in a few states such as California and New York, PayPal can also be used to pay utility bills! PayPal's functions are getting better and better, and it's getting more and more convenient to use! Watching a movie at an IMDB theater, forgetting to bring your bank card or credit card. Payment can be made using PayPal. In addition, PayPal will give a certain amount of overdraft according to the user's credit and property status!

In other words, even if there is no money in PayPal, you can still spend it!

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Nicholas Group soon acquired Symbol QR code company, and then began to improve the warehouse management system, and at the same time, began to make various scanning guns!

Nicholas' warehouse management system is getting smarter and smarter, with barcodes affixed on the shelves, when stock is available. The employee scans the shelf with a scanner gun, and then scans the goods. Next time, when picking up the goods, the warehouse management system will directly tell the picker where to pick up the goods, and set the optimal pick-up route, and pick up the goods one by one according to the route. Save a lot of time. For example, at the packaging location, the staff only needs to pick up the scanner and scan the product to know the size, weight, and type of the product, and then the computer system will calculate which packaging box and packaging box to use. size, and then the staff only needs to choose the box recommended by the computer system!

In fact, Henry even considered developing a robot to process orders!

The labor cost will definitely be greater than the cost of the robot, but with the current technology, the robot developed is probably not a good thing! However, this is also one of the goals. When the wifi technology is developed, the robot can be developed. Every corner of the warehouse is covered with wifi. The robot connects to the server through wifi and executes commands!

In fact, with the current technology, it is possible to develop some simple warehouse robots, such as AGV automatic guided transport vehicles. AGV is simply a delivery vehicle. If you add two tentacles, you can grab the goods and turn into a robot! It may seem simple, but it's actually quite complicated.

The AGV control system needs to solve three main problems:

First, where am I?

Second, where am I going?

Third, how do I get there?

To sum up, they are the three main technologies in the AGV control system: AGV navigation, AGV path planning, and AGV guidance control!

At present, the AGV control system is widely used, with bright prospects and rapid development!

Warehouse robots are even more difficult because they need to add two tentacles to pick and place goods.

AGV technology adds tentacles, which can then be combined with shelves to form a logistics sorting system using robots. This kind of idea is very good. If the technology is invested in research and development, the possibility of realizing it is very large!

In the previous life, Amazon's robot processed orders, and if it was fully automatic, the preparation rate was 99%, which is really awesome! After entering the Amazon warehouse, I saw rows of robots standing there. That scene was like a bunker, didn't I think I came to the world of robots! ! !

Henry thought of this, and then said it carefully to Gilly Hurt.

Considering that wifi has not yet been developed, Henry does not expect warehouse robots to be fully automated, but the internal structure and appearance of AGV control systems and robots have begun to be studied early. After the technology is mature, with wifi, warehouse robots can be realized. Automated management!

Gilly Hurt was stunned by what Henry said, and his heart was full of doubts. However, seeing that what Henry said was so firm, there was no refutation.

"Recruit talents in AGV and robotics, and then set up a Nicholas Robotics department. I hope that in four years, this department can achieve results!!!" Henry said to Gilly Hurt!

"Okay, no problem!" Gilly Hutt nodded!

Henry thought for a while and said: "For those third-party merchants who have settled on the company's website but have no B2C warehouse logistics experience, they can choose to outsource the back-end logistics to Nicholas, which can effectively dilute Nicholas' warehouse logistics center. The cost! So, go and discuss it with them!"

"Yes!"

(To be continued ~^~)