Apple made its first acquisition on March 2, 1988, with the purchase of Network Innovations. Since then, Apple has bought just 23 more companies (see table; click to enlarge), including Quattro Wireless, which it purchased for $275 million. Which isn’t all that many for a company with $23 billion in the bank (as a point of comparison, Google has acquired 11 companies in the last 18 months alone)...
from Digital Daily
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Comment: message to Steve Jobs - Steve, take over Blinkx! Please! You could get it for £100m, probably, and it would serve Blinkx management right for letting their stock price languish so low for so long...
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