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Back in December, Disney had announced their plans to acquire 21st Century Fox for $52.4 billion USD. But recently, Comcast (who owns NBCUniversal) announced their offer to buy Fox for $65 billion in all-cash.
Now, Disney has increased their offer to acquire Fox for $71.3 billion USD.
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NPR along with WNYC Studios, WBEZ Chicago and This American Life has announced that they’ve acquired the popular podcast app, Pocket Casts from Australian developer, Shifty Jelly.
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Back in February, Amazon announced that they would be acquiring video doorbell maker, Ring for around $1 billion USD. Now that acquisition is complete, they’ve dropped the price of their first-gen video doorbell to just $124.99 CAD ($99 USD).
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Foxconn, the Taiwanese company best known for manufacturing iPhone and iPads for Apple, has announced that they will be acquiring accessory maker, Belkin for around $866 million USD.
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Apple has announced that they’ve signed an agreement to acquire Texture, which has been called the “Netflix of magazines.”
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According to reports by GeekWire and Reuters, Amazon is in the process of acquiring Ring, the company that makes the Ring video doorbell.
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Disney has announced their plans to acquire 21st Century Fox for $52.4 billion USD.
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Apple announced they’re acquiring the popular song identifying app, Shazam, following a report last week from TechCrunch.
