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Apple is on an AI buying spreeApple ai acquisition inductiv5 years ago
Published May 28, 2020 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Apple is on an AI buying spree

From Bloomberg's "Apple Buys Machine-Learning Startup to Improve Data Used in Siri" posted Wednesday.

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Rosenblatt: Apple could acquire Disneyapple disney rosenblatt5 years ago
Published March 13, 2020 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Rosenblatt: Apple could acquire Disney

Apple makes small, strategic purchases. It does not swallow whole magic kingdoms in one gulp.

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Apple buys a company every few weeks. FTC investigatesapple ftc tiny acquisitions5 years ago
Published February 11, 2020 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Apple buys a company every few weeks. FTC investigates

Toward a new theory of antitrust...

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Gene Munster: Apple will need 3 years to roll its own 5G modemmunster apple 5g modem6 years ago
Published July 26, 2019 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Gene Munster: Apple will need 3 years to roll its own 5G modem

This new chip, he says, could save Apple $2B per year in Qualcomm royalty fees.

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Press release: Apple buys Intel's smartphone modem divisionapple buys intel modem6 years ago
Published July 25, 2019 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Press release: Apple buys Intel's smartphone modem division

For $1 billion: 2,000 employees plus equipment, leases and a ton of IP.

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Gene Munster: What Apple's acquisition of Drive.ai meansmunster apple drive.ai6 years ago
Published June 26, 2019 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Gene Munster: What Apple's acquisition of Drive.ai means

From a note to Loup Ventures subscribers posted Wednesday.

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WSJ: Why Apple dropped plans to buy Intel's modem bizapple iphone 11 china expectations6 years ago
Published April 27, 2019 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

WSJ: Why Apple dropped plans to buy Intel's modem biz

Apple's cash has been burning a hole in Wall Street's pocket for as long as I can remember.

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Apple: Healthcare systems billionaire shrugs off Jim Cramer's 'no brainer'epic judith faulkner6 years ago
Published February 18, 2019 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Apple: Healthcare systems billionaire shrugs off Jim Cramer's 'no brainer'

As Cramer tells it, a 75-year-old female billionaire must be in want of a bag.

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Did Apple buy Netflix? It did not.hello barbie pullstring apple6 years ago
Published February 16, 2019 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Did Apple buy Netflix? It did not.

What it did buy is the technology—and the talent—behind Hello Barbie.

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Wedbush: Apple will buy a large film studio in 2019 (video)wedbush apple buy film studio6 years ago
Published February 15, 2019 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Wedbush: Apple will buy a large film studio in 2019 (video)

Analyst Daniel Ives mentions Sony, Lion's Gate, A24, CBS-Viacom and, of course, Netflix.

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Philip Elmer-DeWitt has been covering Apple since 1983 — mostly for Time Magazine (28 years), later for Fortune (9 years), where he wrote a daily blog called Apple 2.0. [Read more.]

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