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Apple may unveil Jimmy Iovine, Dr. Dre executive appointments at WWDC
“Apple could unveil Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre as its latest recruits at its Worldwide Developers’ Conference in June, according to people familiar with the Beats Electronics acquisition talks,” Yinka...
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Cody Willard: Apple’s Beats buy is just stupid
“Steve Jobs was famous for saying one thing and poo-poohing certain business models — and then blowing them out of the water if he changed his mind about it later. Well, Steve had long poo-poohed the...
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Analyst Sacconaghi on Apple buying Beats: ‘We struggle with the rationale for...
“Apple Inc. potentially dropping $3.2 billion for the high-end headphone maker Beats Electronics LLC has perplexed Wall Street analysts,” Steven Russolillo reports for The Wall Street Journal. “Such a...
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Apple CEO Tim Cook makes break from managerial style of Steve Jobs
“‘Think different’ became Apple’s creed during the late Steve Jobs’ reign as CEO. Now, chief executive Tim Cook is embracing the idea while making decisions that would have seemed crazy to his fabled...
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Bob Lefsetz on Apple-Beats deal: Tim Cook is an operations guy, he’s...
“You’d think something important had happened,” Bob Lefsetz writes for The Lefsetz Letter regarding the impending Apple purhcase of Beats Electronics for $3.2 billion. “The overanalysis is...
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Apple could become most powerful record label in the world with Dr Dre, Jimmy...
“This won’t be the first time someone suggested Apple could start its own record label. But with Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine, two music industry heavyweights that have built some of the world’s biggest...
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Beats Music is actually so good that I’m worried about Apple ruining it
“My first reaction to [the] news that Apple is nearing the close of a $3.2 billion deal to purchase Beats Electronics was one of worry, but not for the reasons that I saw in much of the commentary...
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Nolan Bushnell: Beats is a ‘good deal for Apple,’ but it says Apple is ‘not...
Atari Founder Nolan Bushnell discusses his outlook for an AT&T, DirecTV merger and an Apple, Beats Electronics merger on Bloomberg Television’s “In The Loop.” I think it is a good deal for Apple....
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Ben Thompson on possible Beats buy: Is Apple losing what makes Apple, Apple?
“The standard response of Apple’s defenders is confidence that the ‘next iPhone’ will solve the growth conundrum. After all, Apple created the Mac, iTunes, the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad, surely...
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Two reasons why Apple shouldn’t buy Beats
“By now, hopefully every tech investor has gotten wind of the rumor that tech giant Apple has entered advanced negotiations to purchase the uber-cool headphone and streaming music company Beats Audio...
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Pioneer demos aftermarket CarPlay systems set to debut in next few weeks
“After officially announcing its new CarPlay feature for connecting iOS devices to select in-car entertainment systems, Apple followed up with confirmation that we’d also see aftermarket products with...
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Twitter considered buying German music service SoundCloud
“Twitter Inc. considered buying German music-streaming service SoundCloud, but it has backed out of the talks, according to a person familiar with the matter,” Yoree Koh and Chase Gummer report for...
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Spotify hits 10 million global subscribers
Spotify today announced that it now has 10 million paying subscribers and more than 40 million active users in 56 markets worldwide. “We’ve had an amazing year, growing from 20 markets to 56 as people...
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Can Apple win over a music industry burned by Pandora?
“Bette Midler is angry, and you won’t like Bette Midler when she’s angry. The singer lashed out at Pandora last month, after the streaming music provider paid her $114 in royalties for more than 4...
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How Apple’s media ambitions will kill off Sirius XM and Pandora
In a statement yesterday, “Tim Cook reminded everyone why Apple acquired Beats. While discussing the realm of music streaming and an ability to both monetize and reward artists, Cook said of Beats,...
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Apple’s iTunes Store passes 35 billion songs sold milestone, iTunes Radio now...
At his appearance at the Code Conference, Apple SVP Eddy Cue “noted that Apple just crossed 35 billion songs sold this past week,” Jordan Kahn reports for 9to5Mac. “That’s up from the 25 billion songs...
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Apple planning local ads, additional non-music content for iTunes Radio
“According to a new report from The Information, Apple is planning to offer ‘locally targeted advertising’ to users through its iTunes Radio platform sometime this year,” Zac Hall reports for 9to5Mac....
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WWDC 2014: Sneaking a peek at Apple’s cool CarPlay
“Apple steered its focus at this week’s Worldwide Developers Conference on the newly minted operating systems it is planning to bring out in the fall, OS X Yosemite for the Mac and iOS 8 for iPads and...
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Apple insiders: Arrogant Apple managers are the reasons why iTunes Radio...
“New information from two Apple sources suggests that, ahead of the Beats deal, the iTunes team was plagued by shortsighted management who ignored competitors while engineers used other streaming...
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How Jimmy Iovine, Dr. Dre and Ian Rogers could transform Apple’s tech culture
“With the announcement of Apple’s acquisition of Beats Electronics now in our rearview mirror, many are trying to figure out what exactly the company bought with its $2.6 billion,” Jon Maples writes...
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