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#Apple spending up to $45m to build Beijing research centre. Buying friends for doing business in China isn’t cheap. http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20160929PD204.html
Ivy Plus universities, ~$140bn endowments, ~11,000 low-income students. Good ROI? #Gladwell isn’t happy. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/malcolm-gladwell-revisionist-history_us_578d2c6fe4b0c53d5cfa79e0
For #Apple, it is not just about mindless globalization, but to strategically invest into the future beyond China. http://bizlive.vn/biznews/apple-mulls-building-in-1-billion-data-center-in-da-nang-1849718.html
Uber to pour $500m into global mapping project. Is this too little and too late? http://on.ft.com/2adCVn6 via @FT
#ARM bought by #Softbank for $32bn. Can they now be called #Hardbank after this? Who will buy it in a few years? http://www.bbc.com/news/business-36822272
#Apple needed to buy friends in China, that’s why they invested $1b in #didichuxing. That’s the “permitted” bet, not #LeTV, #Baofeng or BAT.
How worried should tech #startups be? Will this be a global thing? More unicorns to disappear? http://fortune.com/2016/03/28/there-were-no-tech-ipos-in-q1/
Can #Apple merge with #IBM? Apple has 200B+ in cash, IBM is at about 130B.
Do we need an analyst to tell us that #TouchID will be used widely by #Apple? They spent $350m on it and they will use it everywhere!
Wow. #Snapchat turning down $3B offer from #Facebook. Big gamble. Who else will be brave enough to buy them? Yahoo? Google?
#Nokia for $7.2B is a bargain for #Microsoft, considering #Google spent $12.5B on #Motorola.
#Apple is down by about 5% after #iPhone4S announcement. It’s nice that a good product comes at a discount. Smart investors will buy now!