“Beats co-founder Dr. Dre is the ‘first billionaire in hip-hop,’ according to a video featuring the producer and entrepreneur, which appears to confirm rumours of a $3.2 billion Apple buyout,” Luke Westaway reports for CNET.
“The clip, since removed from Facebook, was posted by by singer-songwriter Tyrese Gibson, with the caption, ‘Dr Dre ON THE night his deal went public that he did with Apple 3.2 BILLION!!!!’ In the video, Gibson appears to be celebrating the deal with Dre and friends,” Westaway reports. “‘The Forbes list just changed,’ Gibson exclaims, referring to the publication’s famous list of the world’s billionaires before Dre adds, ‘In a big way.'”
“[A photo] later posted on Gibson’s Facebook wall, showing Gibson and Dre, with the caption, ‘Apple = Beats 3.2 BILLION!!!!!! The night everything changed!!!!,'” Westaway reports. “Around 4:30am PT both the video and photo were either removed from Gibson’s Facebook page, or set to private. The clip had already been uploaded to YouTube however.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Historically, the best way to lock up a deal with Apple is to make a YouTube video about it and prematurely blast it all over online. Apple absolutely loves that sort of stuff.
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dear God, please let this explode in Dr Dre’s face. I promise to be good forever and ever if this deal is vapor
What? Tim Cook didn’t understand that this is what he was getting into? Please. It’s something I would expect from Samsung or Microsoft.
Talk about killing a deal; when will people learn that Apple = George Clooney. Talk about a marriage and the deal might be “forget about it!”
Umm, George Clooney is engaged.
I would really be disappointed if Apple really went with this deal. It’s not about music, it’s about complete narcissistic life and world for this genre.
This rumor seems an awful lot like “media echo chamber.” One media outlet reporting on what some other media outlet said, which is then reported by another media outlet, and then a few more report that “there are increasing reports of…”
I just don’t see this deal happening. It smells of bullshit.
Apple made this deal to acquire the intellect of dr dre. They wanted his business smarts. Lol
Yes, such as it is.
Price Waterhouse thought the same thing when they tried to steal millions from his investment portfolio.
Even if he were to pocket half the money he’d barely crack the Forbes 400.
Muppetry.
3.2Bn is FB territory. Paying that sort of cash for intangibles that relate to a person or persons s just madness.
I hope Google makes a counter offer and buys them for $6.4B.
Does Apple really know what it’s doing here?
I would think so. Apparently, most others don’t. And you critique the anal-ysts..
If Steve were around, this video would end any and all talks of such a deal.
Best comment I’ve seen yet.
Does it make me a bad person to hope this deal falls through after seeing that video?
Beats headphones are absolute crap. It will be shocking if Apple wastes their money on this deal.
It will be Apple cutting the strings on this deal, not Beats.
Hope Apple realizes these headphones are just celebrity endorse crap!! I think something else is brewing.
WHERE is Apple mentioned? It is NOT.