Michal Marek How have we been to you this week informed, Apple continues to acquire smaller technology companies. The last company bought by Apple is a company Topsy, which deals with the analysis of data from the Twitter social network. For Topsy According to available information, Apple paid around 200 million dollars.
In a conference call regarding the results for the third quarter, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that his company has bought a total of 2013 companies since the beginning of 15. However, due to the strict information embargo that has always existed around Apple, the media only knows about ten acquisitions. Information about the financial amounts that Apple paid for the purchased companies is even more limited.
All known acquisitions for this year can be viewed in the list below:
Maps
Although last year's launch of Maps in iOS 6 Apple was not very successful, in Cupertino they certainly did not break the stick over the whole project. It turns out that this area of the technology business is one of the key ones for Apple, and the company is therefore doing everything to constantly improve its maps and catch up with its biggest rival in this field - Google. And at least in the United States, Apple is fighting for users relatively successful. One of the means by which Apple wants to gradually improve its Maps is the acquisition of some smaller companies.
- That's why Apple bought the company in March WiFiSLAM, which deals with the location of users inside buildings.
- The company followed in July HopStop.com. This is a provider of public transport timetables, primarily in New York.
- In the same month, a Canadian startup also came under Apple's wings Locationary.
- In June, the application also fell into the hands of Apple Embark, another service providing information to public transport passengers.
Chips
Of course, all kinds of chips are also important for Apple. In this field too, Cupertino does not rely only on its own research and development. At Apple, they are now primarily trying to develop chips that will perform individual operations with less energy and memory consumption, and when a smaller company appears that has something to offer in this area, Tim Cook does not hesitate to associate it.
- In August, the company was bought Passive Semiconductor, which produces chips for wireless devices whose domain is precisely low energy consumption.
- In November, Apple also acquired the company PrimeSense. Časopis Forbes described the chips of this Israeli company as potential eyes of the voice assistant Siri. IN PrimeSense because it produces 3D sensors.
- During the same month, the Swedish company also came under the wings of Apple AlgoTrip, which deals with data compression, which allows devices to handle it more efficiently while using less memory.
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- In the field of data, Apple bought the company tops, which was already discussed above.
Other:
- In August, Apple bought the service Matcha.tv, which can recommend various online videos for the user to watch.
- The company was purchased in October Cue which has developed unique software for iPhone and iPad, the ability of which is to work with data in a specific device and use it to assist the user of the given device.
