With days until the launch of the iPhone X and its Face ID camera array, Microsoft’s own motion sensing and facial recognition system…
Tag: acquisitions
Google acquires Songza music streaming service
Google announced today that it’s acquiring the streaming-music service Songza…
Consultant: Apple could buy Disney ‘tomorrow’
Apple is expected to release a smartwatch this fall…
Apple acquires Spotsetter, a social search engine that delivers personalized recommendations for places
Spotsetter, a social search engine using big data to offer personalized…
So much for that: Motorola Mobility to close Texas smartphone factory
Google’s Motorola Mobility handset unit has announced it will shutter…
Apple supplier Cirrus Logic to buy British chip maker Wolfson for $489 million
Wolfson, an Edinburgh-based company which specialises in audio technology…
Apple will soon be the way you pay online and beyond
The most impressive number from Apple’s earnings call this week…
Mobile-payments startup Square discussed possible sale with Apple, Google, eBay
With losses widening and cash shrinking, representatives of mobile-payments startup Square…
Comcast, Time Warner Cable defend proposed $45 billion merger
Executives from Comcast Corp. and Time Warner Cable Inc. faced a tough audience…
Comcast document mentions future Apple set-top box
Inside a document published by Comcast on Tuesday…
Comcast makes case for Time Warner Cable merger to U.S. regulators
Comcast Corp’s merger with Time Warner Cable Inc would not deprive consumers…
Apple should buy Comcast
An acquisition of Comcast would make it the highest valued acquisition in corporate history…
Why doesn’t Apple buy AMD?
Among investors in Advanced Micro Devices, there is a pretty continual discussion…
Apple outspent Google in acquisitions in 2013
Apple is quietly investing far more money to acquire talent, technology and production capacity…
For hints at Apple’s plans, just look at their acquisitions
Apple has avoided jaw-dropping takeovers in favor of a series of smaller deals…
Apple acquires Burstly app testing and advertising company
The latest target of Apple’s recently-busy mergers and acquisitions staff…
Google sells beleaguered Motorola Mobility to Lenovo for $2.91 billion
Google has sold Motorola Mobility to Lenovo for $2.91 billion…
Apple acquires rapid-fire camera app developer SnappyLabs
Apple has acquired the one-man photo technology startup SnappyLabs…
Apple’s $200 million for Topsy buys a lot of interesting things
Apple, as usual, is adding to the intrigue by declining to explain itself…
With Topsy Labs acquisition, Apple gets rich Twitter data
Apple Inc has acquired social media search and analytics startup Topsy.,..
Apple buys Twitter analytics startup Topsy Labs for $200 million
Apple Inc. has acquired social-media analytics firm Topsy Labs Inc….
Apple’s been buying a company every 20 days for the last four months
Apple’s already-historic share repurchase authorization…
Apple reveals 15 acquisitions made in 2013, seven of which are mysteries
Apple chief executive Tim Cook has revealed the firm has acquired 15 businesses…
Former Apple CEO Sculley: Apple should buy big companies
Apple should use its enormous cash reserves to make some big-name acquisitions…
Apple buys AlgoTrim, a mobile media and data compression company
Apple has acquired AlgoTrim, a Swedish startup that builds…
Apple buys public transit mapping company Embark
Apple Inc. keeps snapping up mapping companies…
Apple’s latest patent is a game-changer for iPad
Users could interact with a touch-sensitive device…
Apple acquired Matcha for its proprietary recommendation algorithm
With Matcha, there’s a very good reason Apple came calling…
Apple gears up for the video discovery wars
veryone’s talking about the new battle for exclusivity, original content…
Apple acquires second-screen TV/video app Matcha.tv
Apple is said to have purchased Matcha.tv for an estimated…
Apple in talks to buy Israel-based PrimeSense, company behind Microsoft’s Xbox Kinect, for $200 million
Apple is in early negotiations to buy Israel-based PrimeSense…
AT&T to acquire Leap Wireless for $1.2 billion
AT&T is paying $15 a share in cash for Leap, a prepaid cellphone service provider…
Google nears $1 billion deal for Waze
Google Inc. is on the cusp of paying more than $1 billion for navigation and traffic app..
Will Apple top Facebook’s $1 billion bid for Waze?
Facebook is in talks to buy Israeli crowdsourced traffic and navigation app, Waze…
Apple acquires indoor location company WifiSLAM for $20 million
The move comes as Apple continues to build its arsenal against Google…
Shares in German luxury TV maker Loewe jump 45% on Apple acquisition chatter
Loewe shares shot up as much as 44.5 percent to €3.93…
RUMOR: Apple in talks to acquire German HDTV maker Loewe; shares surge 33%
Shares in German luxury TV maker Loewe surged on talk of a bid from Apple…
Apple did offer to buy Israeli startup Waze, but Waze politely declined, sources say
Rumors of the potential Apple acquisition of Waze lit up the blogosphere this week…
Apple paid $7 million for Color Labs, sources say
In a lawsuit filed today by a former founding employee of Color Labs…
Apple acquires Color Labs, sources say
Color Labs, the photo-and-video-sharing social network…
Apple’s Particle purchase hints at iPad, iPhone post-PC plans
“With all eyes on Apple’s October 23 iPad mini and Mac announcements, it would be easy to spend too little time pondering the company’s acquisition of HTML5 firm, Particle. I think it illustrates a few interesting new elements to Apple’s future plans for mobile devices, apps, software and services,” Jonny Evans writes for Computerworld. “Particle […]
Apple buys ‘Particle’ HTML5 Web and Web app design firm backed by Justin Timberlake
Particle was founded in early 2008 and has some celebrity financial backing…