Over the years, there has been a growing list of companies that Apple should/must acquire to remain relevant. Or something. Apple, after all, has $268.9 billion hanging out in overseas accounts and investments. However, if all or most of that money were brought into this country, Apple would have had to pay an income tax of […]

The past few decades have been littered with failed auto companies. Over my lifetime, I remember such makes as Edsel, Studebaker, Packard, Rambler, AMC, DeLorean, Saturn, Plymouth, Pontiac and Oldsmobile. While there are no doubt used cars from each make to be had, although some would be very old, there are various and sundry reasons […]

At one time, tech pundits wondered what company should buy Apple, and it’s true that, in the 1990s before Steve Jobs returned, that was not beyond the realm of possibility. In early 1996, Apple evidently negotiated with Sun Microsystems — do you remember them? — to sell itself. This came in the wake of the […]

It started out simply enough. Apple established a Project Titan with the purported intention to build an electric car with self-driving capabilities. Well, the actual goal might not be at all simple to accomplish, but the facts appeared to be correct, along with hiring of up to 1,000 people, plus setting up a test facility near the […]