Apple in August 2021 announced it has acquired Primephonic, the renowned classical music streaming service and app that offered an…
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Apple acquisitions significantly decline, regulatory filings show
Apple’s spending on acquisitions has significantly declined over 2021 and 2022, the company’s regulatory filings show. Apple invested…
Apple increases ‘Apple Car’ hiring; Will Apple acquire Canoo?
Apple may be eyeing struggling electric-vehicle startup Canoo to help as the company ramps up its ‘Apple Car’ project…
Upcoming ‘Apple Classical’ music app looks imminent
The upcoming Apple Classical app based on Apple’s Primephonic acquisition could soon launch on Mac, iPhone, and iPad…
Apple acquires UK fintech start-up Credit Kudos
Apple has acquired UK fintech start-up Credit Kudos which develops software that uses consumers’ banking data to make more…
Apple Music beta code reveals ‘Apple Classical’ app
The latest beta version of the Apple Music app for Android reveals the name of Apple’s standalone classical genre app, “Apple Classical”…
Wedbush: Apple acquisition of beleaguered Peloton would be ‘major strategic coup’
Wedbush analyst Daniel Ives says that an Apple acquisition of beleaguered Peloton would be a “major strategic coup” and that if a rival…
Gurman: No, Apple probably won’t buy Peloton
On Thursday, CNBC reported that Peloton has temporarily halted production of its bikes and treadmills in what feels like the prelude to an…
Will Apple buy Peloton?
Peloton is a troubled fitness equipment maker. The Information’s Martin Peers thinks that if Peloton is acquired, “Apple must be the obvious…
Flush with cash, Apple made virtually no acquisitions in 2021
In 2021, the lack of cash spent on M&A by Apple is jarring. The company spent just $33 million – virtually nothing – on business acquisitions…
Apple acquires classical music streaming service Primephonic
Apple today announced it has acquired Primephonic, the renowned classical music streaming service that offers an outstanding listening…
Apple has a problem: They’re too good at making money
Apple has a problem. They’re too good at making money. Their most recent quarterly statement revealed that they are sitting on $38 billion…
Apple reportedly exploring possible $3 billion acquisition of indie film studio A24
Indie film studio A24 recently explored a possible sale, floating an asking price of between $2.5 billion to $3 billion and Apple is…
Apple buys a company every three to four weeks
Apple buys companies at an eye-opening rate; acquiring about 100 companies over the last six years, the company’s CEO, Tim Cook…
Analyst: Apple’s biggest mistake was not buying Netflix
According to Wedbush analyst and Apple bull Dan Ives, the Cupertino Colossus has made one major misstep: not buying Netflix years ago…
Apple buys Vilynx self-learning AI video company
Apple has acquired Barcelona-based Vilynx Inc., a startup specializing in advanced artificial intelligence and computer vision technology…
Apple acquires Scout FM in podcasting push
In a continued podcasting push, Apple earlier this year acquired Scout FM, a popular podcast app on iPhones, Android devices and Amazon…
Apple may be preparing a search engine to take on Google
Changes in Spotlight Search on iOS and iPadOS 14 beta, a significant update to its Applebot support page, and an increase in crawling…
Apple acquires VR startup SPACES
Apple is acquiring Spaces, a virtual reality firm that originally focused on creating theme park attractions then pivoted to delivering…
Apple secretly acquired photography startup Camerai; already using technology in camera systems
The Israeli startup Camerai Ltd. was sold to Apple a year and a half ago for several tens of millions of dollars and was folded into Apple…
Apple acquires Mobeewave for $100 million
Apple has acquired Mobeewave Inc., a startup whose technology allows iPhones to act as mobile payment terminals, people familiar with the matter…
Apple acquires Fleetsmith in enterprise play
Apple has acquired Fleetsmith, a company that makes tools that enable businesses to more easily distribute corporate iPhones and Macs to their staff…
Analyst: Apple should buy DuckDuckGo search engine
In a new note to clients, Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi suggests that Apple should buy DuckDuckGo, the search engine which he values at…
Apple buys machine-learning startup Inductiv Inc.
Apple Inc. bought machine-learning startup Inductiv Inc. Apple confirmed the deal, saying it “buys smaller technology companies from time to time…
Why did Apple buy NextVR?
With an acquisition that may help Apple’s development of VR and AR headsets, the company yesterday confirmed the acquisition of NextVR, a startup…
Apple acquires NextVR
With an acquisition that may help Apple’s development of VR and AR headsets, the company confirmed the acquisition of NextVR, a startup that provides…
Analyst: Apple TV+ already has up to 40 million subscribers
Apple TV+ has already amassed between 30-40 million subscribers. The analyst believes that Apple TV+ can get to 100 million subscribers within 3-4 years…
Apple likely to buy NextVR live event streaming AR/VR firm for $100M
Apple is believed to be in the process of acquiring Orange County, California-based virtual reality company called NextVR …
Apple acquires AI startup Voysis to bolster Siri
Apple has acquired Voysis, an artificial intelligence startup that developed a platform for digital voice assistants to better understand people’s…
Android settlers mourn loss of Dark Sky app after Apple acquisition
Popular hyper-local weather app Dark Sky yesterday announced the company’s acquisition by none other than Apple, meaning the Andoid verison is discontinued…
Apple acquires Dark Sky weather app, kills Android version
Apple has acquired the Dark Sky weather app, Dark Sky announced today.There will be no changes to Dark Sky for iOS at this time. It will continue…
Rosenblatt VP: ‘There is an opportunity for Apple’ to buy Disney
Rosenblatt Securities Vice President Bernie McTernan in a note to clients says there is an opportunity for Apple to make a major buy: Disney …
Apple and MGM have held acquisition talks
MGM has held preliminary talks with Apple, Netflix, and other larger media companies about an acquisition as the biggest streaming companies consider…
Here’s why Apple just bought an AI startup for $200 million
Apple has acquired AI start-up Xnor.ai for about $200 million. Xnor specializes in developing complex AI systems that are extremely efficient…
Apple acquires AI startup Xnor.ai for $200 million
Apple has acquired Xnor.ai, a Seattle startup specializing in low-power, edge-based artificial intelligence tools for somewhere in the range of $200 million. Alan Boyle, Taylor Soper, and Todd Bishop for Geek Wire: The acquisition echoes Apple’s high-profile purchase of Seattle AI startup Turi in 2016… The arrangement suggests that Xnor’s AI-enabled image recognition tools could […]
Broadcom seeks to offload its RF chip unit for upwards of $10 billion; Apple a potential buyer
U.S. chipmaker Broadcom is seeking to sell one its wireless-chip subsidiaries…
Apple acquires Spectral Edge
Spectral Edge uses a type of AI called machine learning to make smartphone pictures crisper, with more accurate colors…
‘Very big’ Apple acquisition looms; ‘people will be shocked’
We continue to hear whispers that a “very big” Apple acquisition looms and…
Apple pushing hard to get their own 5G modem into 2022’s iPhones
After buying Intel’s 5G modem business earlier this year, Apple is wasting no time building its own 5G modem for the iPhone..
Shazam’s user base grew by over 78 million users after Apple acquisition
After its acquisition by Apple, Shazam increased its user base by over 78 million users in 2018…
Apple acquires motion capture company iKinema
Apple has quietly acquired iKinema, a British company that develops motion capture technology for use in a variety contexts…
Apple lost the 5G battle, but it paid Intel $1 billion to win the war
Apple agreed to use Qualcomm modems for the next six years, but now that they’re acquired Intel’s modem business…
