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Apple’s Beats acquisition may prove to be a huge money maker

Monday, June 9, 2014 1:29 pmMonday, June 9, 201414 Comments

Apple’s $3 billion acquisition of Beats Electronics isn’t a sexy acquisition…

Two reasons why Apple shouldn’t buy Beats

Tuesday, May 13, 2014 10:15 pm38 Comments

It’s difficult to determine whether this is a good deal for Apple and its investors

Ben Thompson on possible Beats buy: Is Apple losing what makes Apple, Apple?

Tuesday, May 13, 2014 3:32 pmTuesday, May 13, 201415 Comments

If you look back over the history of technology, there have been four epochs…

Nolan Bushnell: Beats is a ‘good deal for Apple,’ but it says Apple is ‘not an innovative tech company’

Tuesday, May 13, 2014 2:28 pmTuesday, May 13, 201422 Comments

Post-Steve Jobs, it is just a different kind of company…

Beats Music is actually so good that I’m worried about Apple ruining it

Tuesday, May 13, 2014 11:29 amTuesday, May 13, 201426 Comments

Apple: please don’t ruin Beats Music…

Apple could become most powerful record label in the world with Dr Dre, Jimmy Iovine onboard

Tuesday, May 13, 2014 9:57 amTuesday, May 13, 201429 Comments

This won’t be the first time someone suggested Apple could start its own record label…

Bob Lefsetz on Apple-Beats deal: Tim Cook is an operations guy, he’s clueless, and the company has no vision

Tuesday, May 13, 2014 9:05 amTuesday, May 13, 201438 Comments

You’d think something important had happened…

Apple CEO Tim Cook makes break from managerial style of Steve Jobs

Monday, May 12, 2014 8:28 pm25 Comments

Cook became chief executive in late August 2011, roughly six weeks before Jobs died…

Analyst Sacconaghi on Apple buying Beats: ‘We struggle with the rationale for this deal’

Monday, May 12, 2014 5:01 pmMonday, May 12, 201428 Comments

Apple Inc. potentially dropping $3.2 billion for the high-end headphone maker Beats Electronics…

Cody Willard: Apple’s Beats buy is just stupid

Monday, May 12, 2014 4:31 pmMonday, May 12, 201429 Comments

Beats headphones are not exactly most audiophile’s dream headphones…

Apple may unveil Jimmy Iovine, Dr. Dre executive appointments at WWDC

Monday, May 12, 2014 3:58 pmMonday, May 12, 201413 Comments

Apple could unveil Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre as its latest recruits next month…

Apple CEO Tim Cook’s pursuit of Beats seen presaging more takeovers

Monday, May 12, 2014 12:29 pmMonday, May 12, 201419 Comments

Tim Cook is making a habit of breaking with Apple Inc.’s past…

Former eMusic CEO explains why Apple wants to buy Beats

Monday, May 12, 2014 12:01 pmMonday, May 12, 201431 Comments

ormer eMusic CEO Adam Klein discusses the online music business…

Apple’s deep ties with Jimmy Iovine key driver of Beats deal

Monday, May 12, 2014 8:58 amMonday, May 12, 201418 Comments

The seemingly odd cultural fit between the world’s most valuable company and a celebrity-fronted Santa Monica…

Removal of Dr. Dre video about Apple-Beats deal likely means acquisition is real and imminent

Saturday, May 10, 2014 12:01 pmSaturday, May 10, 2014128 Comments

There’s been much excitement about the idea that Apple is going to purchase Beats…

Game changer: Apple buying Beats could radically transform the digital music business

Friday, May 9, 2014 4:28 pmMonday, March 2, 201550 Comments

There are still many unknowns about Apple’s reported acquisition of Beats…

Jimmy Iovine in talks to join Apple as a ‘special adviser’ to Tim Cook, sources say

Friday, May 9, 2014 2:27 pmSaturday, May 10, 201418 Comments

Beats Electronics boss and veteran music industry executive Jimmy Iovine…

Apple close to buying Beats Electronics for $3.2 billion, Reuters sources confirm

Friday, May 9, 2014 1:47 pmFriday, May 9, 20148 Comments

Apple Inc is close to paying a record $3.2 billion for Beats Electronics…

Dr. Dre boasts of Apple-Beats deal in YouTube video, on Facebook

Friday, May 9, 2014 12:45 pmFriday, May 9, 201421 Comments

The clip, since removed from Facebook, was posted by by singer-songwriter Tyrese Gibson…

If Beats deal happens, Apple is acquiring a fad, not quality, and that is troubling

Friday, May 9, 2014 12:15 pm34 Comments

Apple faces tremendous risk if it starts to give more importance to branding than to quality…

If Apple’s really buying Beats, here’s hoping it’s brilliant in a way which isn’t immediately obvious

Friday, May 9, 2014 11:19 amFriday, May 9, 201421 Comments

When you hear that Apple may buy a well-known company…

The reason for Apple’s $3.2 billion interest in Beats? Spotify

Friday, May 9, 2014 10:29 amFriday, May 9, 201432 Comments

At $3.2 billion, the Beats deal would be more than three times larger than any acquisition in Apple’s history…

Apple buying Beats Electronics: Its best idea since the iPad?

Friday, May 9, 2014 8:55 amFriday, May 9, 201455 Comments

Apple is finally growing up…

Why would Apple want to blow $3.2 billion on Beats Electronics?

Thursday, May 8, 2014 8:49 pmThursday, May 8, 201464 Comments

Apple has never spent even a billion dollars buying another company…

Apple in talks to buy Beats Electronics for $3.2 billion

Thursday, May 8, 2014 6:31 pmThursday, May 8, 201461 Comments

Apple is closing in on its largest ever acquisition…

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