{"id":85816,"date":"2023-09-07T00:32:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T04:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=85816"},"modified":"2023-09-07T00:24:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T04:24:19","slug":"apple-buying-disney-would-be-a-storybook-ending-for-iger-but-fairy-tales-arent-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2023\/apple-buying-disney-would-be-a-storybook-ending-for-iger-but-fairy-tales-arent-real.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple buying Disney would be a storybook ending for Iger, but fairy tales aren\u2019t real"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) Apple almost never buys name-brand companies. Its largest takeover was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2014\/05\/28\/apples-beats-buyout-dances-to-the-finish-line.html\">2014?s $3 billion deal for Beats Electronics.<\/a> Apple is strict about its culture and its focus. While <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/MSFT\/\">Microsoft<\/a> has acquired its way to increased scale \u2014 buying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/ATVI\/\">Activision Blizzard<\/a> for $69 billion, LinkedIn for $26 billion, Nuance Communications for $20 billion, and five other companies for more than $5 billion \u2014 M&amp;A isn\u2019t in Apple\u2019s DNA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/09\/06\/apple-disney-merger-iger.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Apple almost never buys name-brand companies. Its largest takeover was 2014?s $3 billion deal for Beats Electronics. Apple is strict about its culture and its focus. While Microsoft has acquired its way to increased scale \u2014 buying Activision Blizzard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85817,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85816\/revisions\/85817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}