After Luo Fan completed the recruitment, Xu Jiale and Wang Jing started to familiarize the new employees with the company's business as planned.

Xu Jiale's main responsibility for the game is the updating and management of the 2048 rankings, and bug checking and repairing of Fruit Ninja.

Wang Jing is mainly responsible for the maintenance of the official website and the preliminary testing of the stability of the Xingyuan application platform.

Everything is on track.

On the other side, Penguin received news that people from Alibaba signed a 20 million contract with a small company in Shanghai for some reason.

20 million is not worth worrying about from the perspective of a giant like Penguin, but signing a contract with an unknown company is very interesting.

So Penguin people conducted a simple investigation on the company that signed a contract with Ali. After this investigation, Penguin found out that this company was Xingyuan Technology Co., Ltd., which developed 2048 and Fruit Ninja.

Does Alibaba want to enter the gaming industry?

With this question in mind, Penguin continued to conduct a more detailed investigation of Xingyuan Technology Co., Ltd.

You wouldn’t know if you didn’t check, but you were shocked when you checked. Penguin soon discovered that Xingyuan Technology Co., Ltd. had two interesting patents in its name, facial recognition and song recognition.

Penguin Music is currently researching the patent of identifying music by listening to songs. Unexpectedly, someone has done it first and registered the patent. This makes Penguin people a little surprised.

"Isn't it possible that people from Alibaba are interested in these two patents?" A middle-aged man wearing black-rimmed glasses muttered to himself as he looked at the survey results.

"Manager Zhang, as far as I know Alibaba has been studying facial recognition technology recently."

“Are you saying they approached this company for the purpose of facial recognition?”

"Probably."

"Then do you think they bought a patent for the 20 million yuan? Or did they buy the license of the patent?" the middle-aged man asked.

"Maybe I bought a patent!"

"I think it's just the opposite. This patent can't be obtained for 20 million yuan. They should just buy the license."

"Then what do you mean..."

"We can get in first, and even if things don't work out, we can also listen to the songs and identify them, which will save some time for the music department."

.......

The simultaneous actions of Penguin and Alibaba naturally attracted the attention of another giant, Baidu.

After investigation, Baidu also learned some information about Luo Fan Company.

Baidu acquired Qianqianjingting in 2006 and is now in the stage of music copyright competition.

And compared with Penguin, Baidu has not yet begun to develop and identify music by listening to songs, so after seeing these two patents under the name of Luo Fan Company, Baidu was also interested.

Just like that, the time came next Monday, and Luo Fan was waiting for Meng Xianbin's arrival in the office. They made an appointment to renegotiate the facial recognition authorization matter today.

Meng Xianbin drove to the downstairs of Luo Fan's company. As soon as he opened the door and walked out, a middle-aged man wearing black-rimmed glasses got out of a car next to him.

Meng Xianbin frowned and thought, "Why is he here?"

Before Meng Xianbin could ask, another car stopped. This time, a woman in her early 30s got out of the car.

The three of them were stunned for a moment when they saw each other, and then none of them chose to take the initiative to speak.

It wasn't until the three of them got on the elevator and pressed the button for the 12th floor at the same time that Meng Xianbin couldn't help but say, "Aren't you going to Xingyuan Technology Co., Ltd. too?"

The two looked at each other and nodded at the same time.

Meng Xianbin cursed in his heart that it was bad luck, and then stopped talking.

After the elevator reached the 12th floor, Meng Xianbin and his secretary were the first to come out.

When Qin Beibei at the front desk saw someone coming out of the elevator, she quickly adjusted her appearance and showed a formulaic smile.

Meng Xianbin walked in after a while. He glanced at Luo Fan's company and was a little surprised.

Obviously the person who went to deliver the computer last week came back and said that Luo Fan's company was empty and there was nothing. Why did he find everything he should have when he came over?

"Hello sir, how can I help you?"

Qin Beibei's words interrupted Meng Xianbin's thoughts. He smiled and said, "I have an appointment with Mr. Luo. I am Meng Xianbin from Alibaba."

"It turns out to be Mr. Meng. Our Mr. Luo has already explained it before. Please come here."

"Hey! Wait a minute. I am Zhang Jian from Penguin. I also want to visit Mr. Luo. Please tell me, Miss."

"And I, I am Baidu's Yu Yin."

Zhang Jian and Yu Yin, who walked in from behind, said one after another.

Qin Beibei was stunned for a moment, then continued to put on a formulaic smile and said: "Okay, Mr. Zhang, Miss Yu, please wait a moment."

After saying that, Qin Beibei made an invitation gesture and took Meng Xianbin to Luo Fan's office.

"Dong dong~Mr. Luo, Mr. Meng is here."

At this time, Luo Fan was writing about the voice assistant in the office. After hearing the knock on the door, he hid the program and said: "Come in!"

Qin Beibei opened the door and led Meng Xianbin in.

"Mr. Luo, your temperament is very different from when you were in school!" Meng Xianbin looked at Luo Fan and said.

"What's different? It's just like that! Come on, Mr. Meng, please sit down. Sister Qin, go call Xiao Gao and ask her to come over."

"Okay Mr. Luo, Mr. Luo has something else to do by the way. There are two guests coming to visit outside."

"There are two more guests? Who are they?"

"They claim to be Mr. Zhang Jian of Penguin and Miss Yu Yin of Baidu."

Luo Fan was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at Meng Xianbin.

Meng Xianbin nodded with a wry smile.

"Then Sister Qin, please invite them in too!"

"Okay, Mr. Luo." After saying that, Qin Beibei left.

After coming out of Luo Fan's office, Qin Beibei first knocked on the door of Gao Meng's office and told her that Meng Xianbin from Alibaba was here. Luo Fan asked her to come over.

Then he hurried back to the front desk, leading Zhang Jian from Penguin and Yu Yin from Baidu to Luo Fan's office.
Chapter completed!