Sentences with phrase «apple acquired a company»

Texture is one of the few unlimited digital magazine services in the world and Apple acquired the company back in March.

While nothing is confirmed at this point, it doesn't seem like a coincidence that Apple acquired a company that has a focus on multi-aperture camera systems, and now rumors about Apple using a dual - camera for its upcoming flagship are starting to crop up more and more.

Not exact matches

However, Jay - Z, who acquired Tidal from Swedish company Aspiro in 2015 for $ 56 million has one, exceedingly important feature that Apple can't match: artist support.

And the logic of one revered brand buying another seemed broken, based on Apple's history of acquiring smaller companies.

Before starting his company, he oversaw manufacturing and supply chain strategy at Apple and was an early member of the operations team of Nest, which was acquired by Google.

5) Bench strength: Netflix CEO Reed Hastings would bring a lot of vision and expertise in digital services to Apple if the company was acquired, as would some of the other members of the streaming service's management.

But Apple's firepower and marketing ability — plus the addition of any original content that the company either develops itself or acquires — would be able to boost that even farther, the Bernstein analyst says.

4) It doesn't need to: Although buying Netflix would give Apple a leg up in the subscription services area, the company doesn't have to acquire the company in order to get most of those benefits — it could strike a licensing deal with Netflix, while also building its own subscription offering similar to Amazon's Prime Video.

5) Dilution: Although Apple has a large cash pile, most of that is held offshore, and therefore the company would likely have to issue debt in order to acquire Netflix for $ 50 billion.

Apple was close to acquiring a Hollywood production company recently, according to the Financial Times.

Gene Munster, a longtime Apple analyst who now serves as managing partner at venture capital firm Loup Ventures, believes Apple could acquire augmented reality startup Magic Leap and fitness - focused company Peloton with its newfound cash windfall.

«Apple has traditionally been conservative in acquiring large companies.

Rival company Apple is also paying attention to facial recognition: Last week, the tech giant acquired a patent for a way to «detect faces using information in digital video feeds,» Bloomberg reports.

Apple acquires Beddit — In May, Apple acquired consumer - facing sleep tracking company Beddit for an undisclosed amount.

Topsy, a third - party social - analytics company acquired by Apple last December, unveiled a similar tweet library more than a year ago.

«We have long suspected that Apple would be the party most interested in acquiring Audible considering the close ties between the two companies,» Richard Fetyko, an analyst at Merriman Curhan Ford, said in a note to clients.

During his tenure, he has served as lead investor in standout companies such as Roku, Uber, and Siri (acquired by Apple), and in IMVU and JUMP Bikes, more recently.

«This is an entrepreneur who had two successful exits with hardware companies acquired by Texas Instruments and Apple,» said True Wealth Ventures General Partner Kerry Rupp.

After all, in 1996, Apple paid much less — about $ 400 million — to acquire the computer company NeXT, which brought Mr. Jobs back to the company.

In 1982, Cadbury Schweppes acquired the Duffy - Mott Company (later known as Mott's), one of the largest apple juice processors in the world.

On August 15th, Google announced its intentions to acquire Motorola Mobility for $ 12.5 billion and Motorola's competitors all voiced support for the deal, suggesting the acquisition would help each company fight in patent battles against Apple and Microsoft.

Apple had made this known in the beginning of this year when it acquired Quattro Wireless, the mobile advertising company.

Amazon too has acquired a touch screen company that has started the rumor balls rolling that the next offering from Amazon might be a «Super Kindle» sort of thing that will take the battle all the way to Apple camp.

On an amusing sidenote: Texas Instruments was one of the first investors in P.A. Semi, the fabless semiconductor company that was acquired by Apple in 2008, paving the way for the Curpertino consumer electronics giant to start manufacturing its own custom chips for products like the iPhone, iPod and iPad.

A patent troll might acquire a design patent and sue a company like Google or Facebook — or Apple — for 100 % of its profits.

Indeed, we are already seeing the global firms search out and acquire specialty practices in much the way that tech companies like Google and Apple find and buy startups for certain products.

Apple has reportedly acquired Emotient, a San Diego - based company that uses artificial technology to detect emotion from facial expressions.

The patent uses technology from PixelSense, a company Apple acquired back in 2013, according to MacRumors.

One hurdle faced by the six tech companies hoping to acquire 6,000 mobile patents from bankrupt Nortel Networks has been cleared, as courts in both the U.S. and Canada have signed off on the $ 4.5 billion deal involving Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), and Research in Motion (NSDQ: RIMM).

The company only acquired Beats Electronics, launched Apple Music (including on Android), and opened up its MFi (Made For) licensing program to include headphones that use its proprietary Lightning port.

According to a tweet sent out by CNBC, and a separate report published by The Wall Street Journal, Apple has acquired a company called Emotient.

As is par for the course, when Apple actually wants to confirm it has acquired a company, a spokesperson informed the WSJ that it has indeed acquired Emotient with its standard reply:

However, this is the second company that Apple has acquired recently that has a strong focus on facial recognition of some kind.

In November, Apple confirmed it had acquired Faceshift, a company that used technology to capture facial expressions using 3D technology in real - time.

Apple is no stranger to acquiring companies, and, according to reports, the Cupertino - based company has done it again.

The company has announced it's acquiring Viv Labs, a startup formed by the creators of Apple's Siri personal assistant, for an undisclosed amount of money.

Last year, Samsung acquired Viv Labs, an artificial intelligence company that was founded by the creators of Apple's Siri.

Apple's wireless speaker never materialized, but the company ended up acquiring Beats in 2014, so it now has several Bluetooth speakers in its arsenal.

Apple has acquired Coherent Navigation, a company that focuses on hyper - active GPS, in what seems like an effort to bolster its mapping capabilities.

Apple acquired Beats, a company that has been known for its line of headphones, many years ago now.

Foxconn is best known as an Apple supplier that assembles Apple's devices and supplies components to the Cupertino - based company, but as of today, it's taking over a major Apple accessory maker.Foxconn Interconnect Technology (FIT), a Foxconn subsidiary, today announced that it has acquired Belkin International in a deal that's worth $ 866 million.

Iovine, who joined Apple in 2014 when the company acquired Beats, helped lead the development of its streaming music service.

It would make sense — Apple acquired sleep tracking company Beddit last year, and hasn't really released any sleep - tracking technology since then.

The patent's inventor credits go in part to Amir Hoffnung and Jonathan Pokrass, two current Apple employees who joined the company from PrimeSense after Apple acquired it November 2013.

Touch ID came into existance after Apple acquired biometrics company AuthenTec the previous July.

Sleep Tracking: In early May Apple acquired Beddit, a company that makes a sleep - tracking app and device.

It first appeared with the iPhone 4S and iOS 5 after Apple acquired the developer company behind it.

Apple acquires German company SensoMotoric Instruments (SMI) reports MacRumors.

When Samsung acquired Viv in 2016, Voicebot pointed out that the company's voice assistant and AI strategies were about more than smartphones and keeping pace with Apple and Google.

Apple has acquired a small company named Beddit, which creates a wide range of sleep - tracking apps for the iPhone.