Exploring Apple's portfolio: what purchases a corporation has made in the last 4 quarters

Apple is actively buying various companies. The corporation informs the general public about all acquisitions. This is confirmed by Apple CEO himself, Tim Cook.

According to him, over the past four quarters, Apple conducted 15 acquisitions. The corporation is always in search of strategically interesting companies with interesting technologies and talented employees.
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“On average, we buy a company every 3-4 weeks. Therefore, there is no month in the year so that we don’t buy any company, ”says Cook.

According to Business Insider, from March 28, 2015, Apple acquired the following companies:

1. FoundationDB , developer of database management systems for web applications;

2. LinX , an Israeli camera maker that may appear in the new iPhone;

3. Coherent Navigation , a developer of high-resolution GPS technologies;

4. Metaio , augmented reality technology developer from Germany;

5. Mapsense , a California mapping company;

6. VocalIQ , a British speech recognition software developer;

7. Perceptio , developer of image recognition technologies;

8. Faceshift , developer of facial animation technology from Sweden;

9. LegbaCore , a security startup;

10. Emotient , a startup in the field of artificial intelligence technologies from California;

11. LearnSprout , a San Francisco company (the only one in its niche) that uses big data analytics technology in education;

12. Flyby Media , a startup in the field of augmented reality.

Some transactions are reported several months after their closure. Therefore, this list should include at least three more companies.

In the second quarter of 2016 fiscal year, there was a decrease in iPhone sales for the first time since the launch of smartphones in 2007 and the first decline in revenue since 2003, 2016 was reported on April 26 by The Verge, citing company reporting.

Apple CEO Tim Cook said that he is ready for major asset acquisitions to solve the company's growth problems. Over the past four quarters, Apple has acquired 15 companies, Cook announced during a newsgroup. But apparently, none of the transactions were large enough to inform shareholders about them earlier.

Unlike other Silicon Valley giants (Alphabet, Cisco, Facebook), Apple never made large-scale purchases, the biggest deal in its history was the acquisition of headphone maker Beats Electronics for $ 3 billion in 2014.