Not exact matches
FORTUNE — Last
week, the Financial Times reported that
Apple (AAPL) is in talks to acquire the trendy headphone and music streaming service
Beats Electronics for $ 3.2 billion.
Apple last
week closed on a $ 3 - billion purchase of
Beats, Twitter has reportedly been sniffing around SoundCloud, and there are signs that Spotify has been considering an IPO.
Amazon's enterprise value first surpassed
Apple's in late January, and was
beating it this
week, ahead of first - quarter earnings.
Later on in the
week,
Apple revealed UK prices for iPhone 4S and a USB adaptor, we brought out unboxing pictures and hands - on walkthrough of the Nokia 700, the HTC Sensation XE with Dr Dre
Beats audio became available to buy for under # 500, Mobile World Congress key note speakers were announced and Virgin mobile phones can now use Orange and T - Mobile networks.
Just
weeks after the iPad 2 release, an upcoming tablet is unveiled that
beats Apple's tablet in terms of design, as you can see in the image on the right.
The announcement of the new
Beats headphones is surprising — were it not for the report last
week from iGeneration saying that
Apple had accidentally sent it an email promising that new
Beats by Dre products would be announced at today's event.
Apple is widely expected to deliver Force Touch in its upcoming iPhone 6S smartphone, but Chinese company Huawei
beat them to the punch by announcing the Force Touch enabled Huawei Mate S at IFA 2015 earlier this
week.
The Android device, due out in September, will potentially
beat rivals on price but will still face fierce competition, with
Apple's highly anticipated 10th anniversary iPhone also expected next month and Samsung's Galaxy Note 8 set to hit the market next
week.
There is also an interesting tie - in with
Beats Electronics, which
Apple agreed to acquire last
week.
The $ 299
Beats Solo3 headphones from
Apple - owned
Beats are on the market, and the company is also taking orders for the $ 199 Powerbeats3, with the earbuds reaching shops within a
week or two.
Meanwhile,
Apple's iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, which Samsung was aiming to
beat by releasing the Galaxy Note 7
weeks earlier, may just have received a breathing space.
Huawei is no stranger to general accusations that it poses a threat to US security, but the past
week has shown that those claims will be a huge barrier to the third largest smartphone manufacturer's long - term plan to
beat Apple and Samsung to the top spot.