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The Best One Yet

Big Trade War update, Apple’s bought 20+ companies in 6 months, and the largest VC investment in Latin America ever

The Best One Yet

Nick & Jack Studios

Business News, Tech, News, Finance, Business, Pop Culture

4.69.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2019

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

The Trade War was supposed to end this week with a peace deal. That’s not looking likely, and we’ll tell you why. Apple’s CEO casually dropped that the company’s bought over 20 startups over the last six months. And super delivery app Rappi just raised $1B from Softbank, making it the biggest Latin American venture investment ever.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is Nick. This is Jack. This is Snacks Daily. It's two date.

0:05.0

May 7th, this is the best one yet. You take the woods right out of my mouth man.

0:08.9

Markets had a crazy day. It was kind of wild. It started off in the locker.

0:11.8

It started very down because of new shots fired in the trade war.

0:15.5

Doesn't get much down with it. But investors got over it, little by little, and it ended just down a bit.

0:19.7

Kick themselves up a little prep-top.

0:21.5

Our first story though, we are going to cover the trade war update.

0:24.5

We got to talk about this.

0:25.5

Sunday was nuts. President Trump tweeted,

0:27.4

and kicked things up a notch. His right hand man said,

0:29.6

more yesterday. Then you got China saying they're not going to send the delegation here now.

0:32.7

They are. They are.

0:33.9

It's a lot to talk about. We're going to break it down for you.

0:36.1

Second, Apple. It just announced on Monday very casually that it makes 20 to 25 acquisitions

0:43.2

just in the last six months. Just, you know, matter of fact, we're like what acquisitions?

0:47.2

When did this happen? So we break that down. We looked into each one. We got some cool stuff.

0:51.6

Third and final story is,

0:52.8

Happy. I like your pronunciation.

0:54.6

Robbie just raised $1 billion in one round of private fundraiser.

0:59.0

That's just not typical.

1:00.0

It's a Colombian delivery company, and it's stretching the limits of what can be delivered via app.

1:05.6

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