Welcome to the Tech Main Bride Home for Monday, March 12th, 2018.

Today, Apple acquires texture, details on the Dropbox IPO, drone deliveries might be coming soon,

Twitter attacks tweet decking, more on the Broadcom story story and an interesting story out of the

Bitcoin world. Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

Apple today announced it was buying the app company Texture.

Texture is known commonly as the Netflix for magazines, offering unlimited access to

around 200 magazines for $10 a month.

Quote, we're excited texture will join Apple,

along with an impressive catalog of magazines

for many of the world's leading publishers, said Apple's at EQ.

We are committed to quality journalism from trusted sources and allowing magazines to keep producing

beautifully designed and engaging stories for users."

Apple is reportedly going to allow the entire company to operate independently,

with no current plans for changes, and also will continue to produce apps for the full slate of

platforms including Android Kindle Fire and Windows not just for iOS.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed, though texture had raised around 90 million in venture funding.

Discussion of the strategy of this deal centers around whether and in what ways Apple will move deeper into publishing.

The obvious idea would be to use texture to supplement Apple's own Apple News app.

Others noticed how companies like Facebook seem to be distancing themselves from publishing in recent months,

while Apple with this move is clearly moving in the other direction.

Some speculate that by working with trusted magazine brands

Apple could position itself to differentiate its offerings inside the morass of

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