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The deal, valued at $300 million, is the latest in a string of acquisitions as streaming platforms expand beyond music and video. Amazon is acquiring Wondery, the company behind podcasts [...]

LONDON -- European authorities on Thursday cleared Apple's acquisition of the popular song-recognition app Shazam, after months of study into whether the deal would give the iPhone maker an unfair [...]

LONDON -- If data is the most valuable currency of the digital economy, at what point does a company have so much that it becomes unfair? That's a question antitrust [...]

A decade ago, Apple's iPhone helped make a music-tech star out of Shazam, the app that, almost like magic, could identify a song just by hearing a few seconds of [...]

TOKYO -- Toshiba, the huge but struggling Japanese conglomerate, traded some of its size for financial security on Thursday by selling off most of its profitable microchip business. It was [...]

Great partnerships are often forged when each party enjoys a surplus of something the other needs, and there's little conflict in their ambitions. By that logic, two of Silicon Valley's [...]

Apple is flailing around to the beat. The company may buy Tidal, the music-streaming service started by the superstar rapper Jay Z, according to The Wall Street Journal. The presumed [...]

Facebook, Google and Microsoft have all delved into virtual and augmented reality technology. Now Apple is dipping a toe into the space too. Apple recently acquired an augmented reality start-up [...]

For many of the largest Silicon Valley technology companies, location software undergirds numerous applications and features in their products. For Apple, it has been a game of catch-up. To that [...]

Apple has acquired Semetric, a company that analyzes data about music online, a move that may hint at Apple's ambitions as it prepares to revamp iTunes and Beats Music. In [...]

Jimmy Iovine, the record executive who joined Apple this year as part of its $3 billion purchase of Beats, has joined the board of Live Nation Entertainment, the company announced [...]

There's one thing executives at Apple would like you to know about their decision to buy Beats Music: Apple really loves humans. It loves us in the general sense -- [...]

CUPERTINO, Calif. -- Apple, the company that turned digital music into a mainstream phenomenon, said on Wednesday that it was buying Beats Electronics, a rising music brand, for $3 billion, [...]

A week after reports on its negotiations were first published, Apple's pending $3.2 billion deal for Beats Electronics has still not been completed. But Beats is already finding itself defending [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- Apple is not known for being social -- rather, it is known for being buttoned up about everything it does. But on Monday, the company confirmed that [...]

It appears Apple is thinking seriously about what the mobile maps of tomorrow will look like, not just fixing the maps service it has today. The company has acquired WiFiSlam, [...]

Apple, which has stumbled in its efforts to get into social media, has talked with Twitter in recent months about making a strategic investment in it, according to people briefed [...]

Apple has found one way to shrink its huge pile of cash. The iPhone maker has agreed to acquire AuthenTec, a mobile security company, for $356 million in cash, according [...]

Apple wants the fastest chip for its mobile devices and has bought another chip maker to gain an edge over its competitors. Apple has acquired a small Austin, Tex., company [...]

Apple encroached upon Google's turf on Tuesday with its acquisition of Quattro Wireless, a mobile advertising company. The sale, which Quattro announced, is the latest sign that the mobile phone [...]

In the most recent sign that Apple is looking at alternative ways for people to store and play their digital music, the company has agreed to buy Lala, a four-year-old […]

AT 2:56 in the morning on May 5, a headline flashed on Gawker, the New York gossip site that also carries a smattering of Silicon Valley buzz. It was tentative […]

Apple Computer Inc. is actively looking for a friendly merger candidate, several executives close to the company said today. The disclosure of a search for a partner came to light […]

Welch & Nehlen Advertising in Garden City, L.I., said yesterday that it had acquired Groome Associates in New York and absorbed Groome to form Welch Nehlen & Groome. Terms were […]

Apple Computer and Sun Microsystems on Thursday once again came close to merging, but the talks may now collapse in wake of reports today that Apple's chief executive, Michael Spindler, […]

Shares of Apple Computer Inc. continued to slide today, hitting another 52-week low on concerns that no deal is imminent for the struggling company. Apple shares fell $1.813 to close […]

Sun Microsystems wants to merge with Apple Computer, but it thinks Apple is worth far less than its current market price. Sun offered only about $2.76 billion, or $23 a […]

Shares of Apple Computer Inc. rose 7 percent yesterday on renewed speculation about a possible takeover. The stock gained $3.0625, to $46.75, on Nasdaq volume of 7.8 million shares. Dan […]

Shares in Apple Computer Inc. rose sharply today on the latest speculation that the company could be the target of a takeover bid. Apple's stock jumped $3.125, to $42, in […]

Micron Technology Inc. said today that it would acquire Zeos International Ltd., a Minneapolis-based telephone-order supplier of personal computers. Zeos will be merged with Micron Computer Inc. and Micron Custom […]

Radius Inc. said today that it would acquire Supermac Technology Inc. in a stock swap valued at about $80.5 million. Radius and Supermac, both based in San Jose, Calif., are […]

SINCE its start in 1976, Apple Computer Inc. has reveled in its role as the most independent company in a valley of free spirits. Its cutoffs-and-T-shirts approach to computer design, […]

LEAD: The 3Com Corporation, a manufacturer of computer network systems based in Santa Clara, Calif., said it had acquired Centram Systems West, a software company based in Berkeley, Calif., that […]

LEAD: Apple Computer Inc. plans to spin off a company that will develop, publish and sell software for Apple personal computers, the company said today. Apple Computer Inc. plans to […]

LEAD: The Claris Corporation, the software subsidiary of Apple Computer Inc., said it had bought Styleware Inc. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Styleware, a privately held software company […]

LEAD: Apple Computer Inc. said today that it had agreed to acquire the Network Innovations Corporation, its first acquisition of another computer technology company. Apple Computer Inc. said today that […]

LEAD: Novell Inc. and Excelan Inc., both computer network companies, said today that they had signed a definitive agreement to merge. Novell Inc. and Excelan Inc., both computer network companies, […]