Acquisition

n follows other similar moves from Apple as the company continues to expand its influence into the professional film production industry, including the company's acquisition of compositing software maker Nothing Real. ...

Very big. simX, I'm pretty sure this product is NOT a result of the Nothing Real acquisition FWIW, though you can bet it will all roll in together somehow in the upcoming months/years. I think this product is the result of a separate acqusition about a year ago. Avid still has the better product as well an established user base, but make no mistake about it, FCP is...

Apple sure is doing a lot of acquiring these days.... I'm wondering what they're gonna do with this company.

As for 3D apps, it looks like Apple is looking to the future with their acquisition of NothingReal. While Shake isn't a 3D app, it's a high end Hollywood app which shows where Apple wants to be. ...

Just one thing about drugs and I'll be done with the topic. With any of the drugs I experimented with, used or am using, I went into them understanding the street composition (chemically), effects on the body, effects on the mind, its dependency factor, dosage levels, and the source of acquisition. I believe you should know what your messing with before you mess with it. I'm...

Apple talks Real, not Nothing Real By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco Posted: 08/02/2002 at 08:42 GMT Perhaps Apple, which was founded on April Fool's Day, has a sense of humour after all. Yesterday Apple verbally confirmed, but didn't put out a supporting press release, that it was acquiring 2D compositing software house Nothing Real. But it did find time to issue...

AOL Time Warner Inc. is in talks to buy Red Hat Inc., a prominent distributor of a computer operating system, an acquisition that would position the media giant to challenge arch rival Microsoft Corp., according to sources familiar with the matter. ...

and that value ends up being Apple's. Whatever Apple does, it has to be careful because a bad acquisition is like Compaq after acquiring Digital. ...

See, the Palm acquisition doesn't make much sense to me at all. It doesn't look like Palm has much of anything to add to what Apple can already do. ...

Sorry guys and girls, I think my new acquisition might be a social recluse... ...