January 15, 2014, morning, third floor of Lin Feng's home in Xiaohe Town.
On this day, the negotiating teams from the major internet giants finally received an invitation from Lin Feng.
The internet giants here to negotiate mainly came from the social media, online shopping, video, and news industries.
There were, of course, also conglomerates. Tencent Company, for example, did a bit of everything, while other companies were also involved in additional industries to varying degrees.
Though their operations could not beat the other companies in those fields, they could still barely keep them running.
So which companies had come?
From the video industry, there were YouTube, Netflix, Youku, Tencent, iQIYI, AcFun, and Japan Niconico.
From the online shopping industry, there were Taobao, Tmall, JD.com, and Amazon.
From the social media industry, there were Tencent QQ, Weibo, Facebook, and Twitter.
There were even more companies from the news industry. Great Xia's four major Internet portals—Tencent, Sina, Sohu, and NetEase—had all come, along with six foreign companies including Yahoo and Microsoft MSN Portal.
Together with their accompanying staff, they had packed Lin Feng's home to the brim. Of course, there were actually even more companies that wanted the recommendation algorithm.
But Lin Feng had not notified them. The companies present were those he thought highly of; those he did not favor had no right to participate in these negotiations at all.
When the negotiating representatives saw so many renowned domestic and foreign companies gathered here, they were all startled.
They were shocked that so many famous companies had set their sights on licensing Lin Feng's recommendation algorithm, which made them value the algorithm even more.
They were also shocked by Lin Feng's boldness. Was he not afraid that summoning so many companies at once would lead them to join forces and