After Henry's order was issued, ICQ quickly ran at full speed and began to develop virtual communities and design various virtual items! At the same time, the ICQ game platform was also ready to develop and independently develop chess and card games******** bridge, chess, Go, baccarat, and landlord fighting......

The most popular board game in the United States is ********, which can be said to be popular throughout the United States.

Baccarat is popular in Europe, and the landlord is not called this name now, originally originated in the Hanyang area of Wuhan, Hubei, called "run fast", in 1995 officially named "landlord", and then swept the whole China!

In order to speed up the development process, ICQ began to expand and recruit a large number of programmers!

The Los Angeles Times made a special report on this, saying that ICQ interviews hundreds of people every day, so what is the intention of ICQ to expand in such a hurry?

The outside world is speculating that after ICQ joins the Nicholas Group, there will definitely be a big move, but at present, ICQ has not revealed a trace of information to the outside world. A spokesperson for ICQ said that ICQ already has the largest market share in the instant messaging field, and the company will diversify its development based on ICQ instant chat software!!

The addition of ICQ has made Nicholas International E-commerce Company more powerful!

Through the marketing method of wishlists, the number of online shopping users has surged, and PayPal users have now exceeded the 10 million mark, making daily payments or transfers, making PayPal's capital flow exceed one billion dollars. PayPal charges a renewal fee from it, and it has already made a lot of money!

In particular, the Internet has connected the world, the increase of international transfer business, the role of PayPal is becoming more and more prominent: not only the procedure is simple and fast, but also the transfer cost is low, so it is liked by many international trading companies! At present, the whole of Europe is using PayPal as a third-party payment!

And in the United States, there are various third-party payment methods that imitate PayPal. But PayPal accounts for more than 90% of the market share.

AOL is also involved in e-commerce, AOL, and the payment method they have launched is AOLPay. AOLMARKET is backed by FedEx and UPS, with 10% and 15% stake respectively! It's still very well done!

In addition to the American online market, the American company Peapod moved its grocery store to PC as early as 1989, and then saw the rapid development of Nicholas Shopping Network, which became a company with a market value of more than 10 billion, so it was stimulated. Decided to do the same 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, which was the first physical department store to enter the network company, and the website developed rapidly, and soon surpassed Panpo Company, ranking the third largest e-commerce company in the United States!

The above three companies, except for the US online market, which uses its own AolPay and does not support PayPal, the other two e-commerce companies choose to support PayPal.

Using PayPal can already be used to top up your phone bill. In a few states such as California and New York, PayPal can also be used to pay utility bills! PayPal's functions are becoming more and more perfect, and it is more and more convenient to use! Watching movies in IMDB theaters, forgetting to bring a bank card or credit card, you can use PayPal to pay. In addition, PayPal will give a certain overdraft limit according to the user's credit and property status!

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

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The Nicholas Group soon acquired the Symbol QR code company. This was followed by improvements to the warehouse management system, and at the same time, the production of various scanners began!

Nicholas's warehouse management system is getting smarter and smarter, with barcodes on the shelves. When stocking, the employee scans the shelves with a scanner, then scans the goods, and the next time, when the goods are picked, the warehouse management system will directly tell the pick-up person where to pick up the goods. And set the optimal pick-up route, according to the route one by one, you can save a lot of time. For example, at the place of packaging, the staff only needs to pick up the scanner and scan the goods, they can know the size, weight, and type of goods, and then the computer system will calculate what kind of packaging box needs to be used and the size of the box, and then, the staff only needs to choose the packaging 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 developed robot is probably not the top thing! However, this is also one of the goals. When the wifi technology is developed, the robot can also be developed, and all corners of the warehouse are covered with wifi, and 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 vehicles. To put it simply, AGV is a delivery vehicle, if you add two tentacles, you can grab the goods and turn it into a robot! It seems simple, but in fact it is still very complicated.

There are three main problems that the AGV control system needs to solve:

First, where am I?

Second, where am I going?

Third, how do I get there?

To sum up, there are 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, and the prospect is bright, and the development speed is rapid!

The warehouse robot is a little more difficult, because it needs to add two tentacles to pick up and place the 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, and if the technology is invested in research and development, the possibility of realizing it is very high!

In the previous life, Amazon's robot processed orders, fully automated, with a preparation rate of 99%, which is really awesome!After entering the Amazon warehouse, I saw rows of robots standing there, and that scene, I thought I had come to the robot world!!

Henry thought of this, and then spoke carefully to Geille Hurt.

Because considering that wifi has not yet been developed, Henry does not expect warehouse robots to be fully automated, but the internal structure and shape of AGV control systems and robots have begun to be studied early, and when the technology matures, plus wifi, the automated management of warehouse robots can be realized!

Geille Hurt was stunned by what Henry said, and his heart was full of doubt. However, seeing that what Henry said was so certain, there was no refutation.

"Recruit people in AGV and robotics, and then set up a Nicholas Robotics division, which I hope will be successful in four years!!" Henry told Geely Hurt!

"Okay, no problem!"

Henry thought for a while and said: "For those third-party merchants who have settled in the company's website but have no experience in B2C warehouse logistics, they can choose to outsource the back-end logistics to Nicholas for management, and this way can effectively dilute the cost of Nicholas's warehouse logistics center!

"Yes!" said Gilli Hut, nodding.

(To be continued.) )