{"id":22847,"date":"2016-02-27T21:47:08","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T05:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/tim-cook-hinted-that-apple-is-gearing-up-for-a-buying-spree-of-smaller-technology-companies"},"modified":"2017-04-24T22:04:16","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T05:04:16","slug":"tim-cook-hinted-that-apple-is-gearing-up-for-a-buying-spree-of-smaller-technology-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/tim-cook-hinted-that-apple-is-gearing-up-for-a-buying-spree-of-smaller-technology-companies","title":{"rendered":"Tim Cook hinted that Apple is gearing up for a buying spree of smaller technology companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tim-cook-hinted-that-apple-is-gearing-up-for-a-buying-spree-of-smaller-technology-companies.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not just Apple. 2016 could prove to be a year of acquisitions leading into 2017. With investors pulling back and some great start ups around; could prove a great year for M&amp;A in tech.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Apple is giving strong hints that it sees the current landscape as a buyer\u2019s market for technology companies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn times when equity values are falling there\u2019s great opportunity to\u201d purchase companies, Apple CEO Tim Cook said at the company\u2019s annual shareholder\u2019s meeting, held in Cupertino, California on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s looking for \u201cgreat technology and great people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/apple-may-be-gearing-up-for-a-buying-spree-of-smaller-technology-companies-2016-2\">http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/apple-may-be-gearing-up-for-a...2016&#45;2<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not just Apple. 2016 could prove to be a year of acquisitions leading into 2017. With investors pulling back and some great start ups around; could prove a great year for M&amp;A in tech. Apple is giving strong hints that it sees the current landscape as a buyer\u2019s market for technology companies. \u201cIn times when [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22847"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50970,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22847\/revisions\/50970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}