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Post by Since84 on May 26, 2016 2:07:24 GMT -8
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Post by Since84 on May 26, 2016 3:40:07 GMT -8
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Post by platon on May 26, 2016 5:03:38 GMT -8
Noticed NFLX up about 4% in pre-market. I assume because of this article. Maybe they are fixing to spend some of that money or perhaps just market movers playing with the market.
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Post by artman1033 on May 26, 2016 6:11:28 GMT -8
Time Warner Inc . rose in early trading Thursday after a newspaper reported that a top Apple Inc. executive raised the prospect of buying the owner of HBO, CNN and Warner Brothers last year. Netflix Inc. also gained as the discussions underline Apple’s interest in media and potentially offering its own content. Eddy Cue, who oversees the iTunes store, Apple Music and iCloud, broached the idea of a bid at a meeting with the Olaf Olafsson, Time Warner’s head of corporate strategy, the Financial Times reported Wednesday, citing three unidentified people. Time Warner shares jumped as much as 3.5 percent in premarket trading, and were up 1.9 percent to $74.75 at 7:27 a.m. Netflix gained 1.5 percent to $101.66 Discussions about Apple buying Time Warner didn’t go past a preliminary stage and never included Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook nor his counterpart at Time Warner, Jeff Bewkes, the Financial Times said. www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-26/time-warner-netflix-climb-on-report-of-apple-interest-in-media?cmpid=yhoo.headline
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Post by Since84 on May 26, 2016 6:24:26 GMT -8
Even old news can move markets -- why rehashing it is a favorite FUDster technique.
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Post by Since84 on May 26, 2016 8:13:41 GMT -8
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Post by macster on May 26, 2016 9:25:40 GMT -8
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Post by macwire on May 26, 2016 9:27:52 GMT -8
Well done off the fake break down under 92, thick kumo cloud ahead of resistance but she worked pretty hard to get back to the 100. I have not traded this in weeks. cheers to the longs
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Post by sponge on May 26, 2016 9:28:12 GMT -8
Checking in from the Geneva Apple Store. The prices on the woven is better then US. The store is very busy. I wanted to buy a band but no stock.
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Post by archibaldtuttle on May 26, 2016 10:03:40 GMT -8
when do we see some panic buying?
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Post by chinacat on May 26, 2016 10:26:30 GMT -8
when do we see some panic buying? How about right now? Go, baby, go
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Post by Since84 on May 26, 2016 10:28:37 GMT -8
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Post by dreamRaj on May 26, 2016 10:56:05 GMT -8
The past few days have been the best few days AAPL has had in a looong time.
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Post by dreamRaj on May 26, 2016 11:41:44 GMT -8
when do we see some panic buying? I just bought some. Not sure if it'll will make me smile or slap myself next week.
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Post by macster on May 26, 2016 11:58:07 GMT -8
oracle/google trial verdict.....coming
omfgawd googles fair use upheld
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Post by macster on May 26, 2016 12:05:22 GMT -8
FOSSpatents: The outcome of a rigged #Googacle retrial. A verdict no reasonable jury could have reached if properly instructed. t.co/regfm4XayW
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Post by macster on May 26, 2016 12:13:04 GMT -8
JNGross: @fosspatents yuck, sounds like a complete farce engineered by Alsup to get the verdict he wanted to protect his opinion
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Post by JDSoCal on May 26, 2016 12:14:33 GMT -8
Time Warner huh? $58B market cap, so it'd be doable, but is it really some crown jewel of entertainment content? Or just the first piece of AppleTV's range of "original" content for AppleTV? The meeting was in 2015, so not exactly breaking news.
I'd prefer Disney, but $162B market cap, that would require a foreign tax holiday.
Buying Netflix seems redundant when Apple already has AppleTV. With NFLX, you're paying $45B for 45M subscribers ($1000 each!), and they aren't going to run out and buy an AppleTV, so would Apple TV remain a hobby? Or does Apple create actual smart TV's? Or develop smart TV SDK's and hope they are adopted? Or just turn Netflix into a software portal.
I'm actually leaning in favor of a NFLX acquisition, not due to economics ($0.06/share earnings on other people's content), but because dopey WS likes the brand. And I'll take 45M subs over wasting billions on more buybacks.
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Post by dreamRaj on May 26, 2016 12:23:17 GMT -8
Seems like our frenemy GOOG is going to be fine with the verdict.
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Post by macster on May 26, 2016 12:27:20 GMT -8
DanielEran: Judge Alsup failed justice in Oracle v. Google; Android still in limbo through future appeals. @fosspatents t.co/DGw5O4gfaH
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Post by tuffett on May 26, 2016 12:43:03 GMT -8
Anyone actually surprised about the trial? This was obvious from the start, because the legal system is a farce. Patents are a complete waste of time. Far better not to file patents that detail your work and methodology because it's just going to get copied with no penalty. If there is a penalty, it's a meaningless sum a decade later. Better to keep everything a secret and let competitors figure things out themselves rather than providing them an instruction manual.
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Post by mark on May 26, 2016 14:41:46 GMT -8
Time Warner huh? $58B market cap, so it'd be doable, but is it really some crown jewel of entertainment content? Or just the first piece of AppleTV's range of "original" content for AppleTV? The meeting was in 2015, so not exactly breaking news. I'd prefer Disney, but $162B market cap, that would require a foreign tax holiday. Or just issue 800M shares and borrow $80B and pay half in shares and half in cash. A large purchase like Disney would almost surely be a combination of shares and cash (for more than one reason). At this point, I don't see Netflix as "worth it" anymore. Their sub growth is already slowing apparently. I'm still pissed that they didn't take all the advice (mine and many others everywhere including here) to buy Waze back when they could have snapped it up for just under a billion.
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Post by rickag on May 26, 2016 15:13:16 GMT -8
Time Warner huh? $58B market cap, so it'd be doable, but is it really some crown jewel of entertainment content? Or just the first piece of AppleTV's range of "original" content for AppleTV? The meeting was in 2015, so not exactly breaking news. I'd prefer Disney, but $162B market cap, that would require a foreign tax holiday. Or just issue 800M shares and borrow $80B and pay half in shares and half in cash. A large purchase like Disney would almost surely be a combination of shares and cash (for more than one reason). At this point, I don't see Netflix as "worth it" anymore. Their sub growth is already slowing apparently. I'm still pissed that they didn't take all the advice (mine and many others everywhere including here) to buy Waze back when they could have snapped it up for just under a billion. Agree on Waze, dumbfounded that Apple couldn't see the value of buying Waze.
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Post by firestorm on May 26, 2016 15:54:51 GMT -8
Owning a huge media company would be a huge distraction for Apple's management. Sony pioneered that path and I don't think it worked well for them.
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Post by BillH on May 26, 2016 21:08:41 GMT -8
Owning a huge media company would be a huge distraction for Apple's management. Sony pioneered that path and I don't think it worked well for them. I feel the same way about them being in the automobile business.
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