This afternoon we announced that Apple is acquiring Beats Music and Beats Electronics…
Tag: Dr. Dre
It’s official: Apple acquires Beats Music and Beats Electronics for $3 billion
Beats co-founders Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre will join Apple…
Apple reportedly cuts $200 million off Beats purchase price
Apple’s biggest deal in its history just got a little cheaper…
Why the Apple-Beats deal may be dead
The basic problem with evaluating Beats as an investment for Apple…
Has Dr. Dre’s drunken boast cost his company $3.2 billion?
Apple was not at all happy about a video posted by…
70% chance Apple’s Beats deal is happening and, if so, it’s a Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iovine acquihire, says source
A well-placed source has confirmed rumors that Apple’s acquisition of Beats…
Pandora CFO: We can extend our lead in online music
Pandora Media Inc can continue to dominate in Web-based music…
As MacDailyNews already posited, Walter Isaacson thinks maybe Jimmy Iovine will run Apple’s content business
Apple is reportedly acquiring Beats Electronics for $3.2 billion…
Two reasons why Apple shouldn’t buy Beats
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?
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’
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
Apple: please don’t ruin Beats Music…
Apple could become most powerful record label in the world with Dr Dre, Jimmy Iovine onboard
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
You’d think something important had happened…
Apple CEO Tim Cook makes break from managerial style of Steve Jobs
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’
Apple Inc. potentially dropping $3.2 billion for the high-end headphone maker Beats Electronics…
Cody Willard: Apple’s Beats buy is just stupid
Beats headphones are not exactly most audiophile’s dream headphones…
Apple may unveil Jimmy Iovine, Dr. Dre executive appointments at WWDC
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
Tim Cook is making a habit of breaking with Apple Inc.’s past…
Former eMusic CEO explains why Apple wants to buy Beats
ormer eMusic CEO Adam Klein discusses the online music business…
Apple’s deep ties with Jimmy Iovine key driver of Beats deal
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
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
There are still many unknowns about Apple’s reported acquisition of Beats…
Rumored Beats deal shows Apple has finally woken up to reality or something
Apple is just a consumer electronics company and has been so for quite a while now…
Jimmy Iovine in talks to join Apple as a ‘special adviser’ to Tim Cook, sources say
Beats Electronics boss and veteran music industry executive Jimmy Iovine…
Apple close to buying Beats Electronics for $3.2 billion, Reuters sources confirm
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
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
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
When you hear that Apple may buy a well-known company…
The reason for Apple’s $3.2 billion interest in Beats? Spotify
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?
Apple is finally growing up…
Why would Apple want to blow $3.2 billion on Beats Electronics?
Apple has never spent even a billion dollars buying another company…
Apple in talks to buy Beats Electronics for $3.2 billion
Apple is closing in on its largest ever acquisition…
Apple CEO Cook, Beats’ Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine discuss music-streaming service
Apple Inc. has held talks with Beats Electronics…
