Tech: M&A Chatter – Don’t Believe the Hype
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2015
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
GoPro jumped this week after one analyst suggested Apple scoop it up with some of the cash it has sitting around. What should investors make of this news and M&A chatter in general?
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| 0:00.0 | Will Apple be going on a shopping spree on this technology edition of Industry Focus? |
| 0:07.0 | Greetings Fool's, I am Sean O'Reilly joining you here from Fool Headquarters in |
| 0:14.8 | Alexandria, Virginia. |
| 0:16.3 | It is Friday, December 12, 2015, and joining me to Talk Tech is the awe-inspiring Dylan Lewis. |
| 0:22.4 | What's up, man? Did you miss me? I missed you a little bit. Yeah, we had a little it was more than two-week hiatus right because we had a holiday. We had a holiday. Everybody missed us. Yeah, so the day after the Friday after Thanksgiving we did do a show and then you were still out last Friday and I did the show with Vince. |
| 0:37.0 | So, do you guys have fun? We had a good time. I think we held it down pretty well. You could tell like it's a little weird hosting if you're used to not hosting and like having to do the intro and the page and the |
| 0:47.3 | Well even when we switched we had a bit of a hard time changing hands. Yeah we made it work though. So before we move on I |
| 0:55.1 | actually wanted to give a shout out to the gentleman that gave us a board game. |
| 1:01.0 | Yeah, yeah, so what was that three or four episodes ago? We did the |
| 1:05.5 | Rock Paper Scissors shoot to determine who would talk for oh, that was the beat-up |
| 1:09.5 | tech stock episode where we talked about a couple of companies that hadn't been doing so well and |
| 1:15.8 | to settle who was going to talk first. We did a little rock-paper-s to shoot and we talked |
| 1:21.0 | about how a tic-tacToe was not such a great game, |
| 1:23.8 | because as adults, it's pretty hard to determine a winner. |
| 1:26.0 | It's a tie. |
| 1:27.0 | Like it's a cat game as it was. |
| 1:28.9 | So Jeff Pincer sent us not only a 3D Tic Tacto game that his company created, but sent us a very nice letter. |
| 1:41.4 | And Jeff, if you're listening, feel free to stop by the Alexandria office |
| 1:45.4 | anytime. If we're ever in Plano, Texas, we will definitely stop by. |
| 1:48.7 | Yeah, yeah, thank you for listening, Jeff. We have not yet played the game, but I'm thinking maybe this afternoon over a beer, Sean and I'll. |
| 1:55.0 | We'll take a photo and send it to you, Jeff. |
| 1:57.0 | And to all our other listeners that we're not giving a shout out to, Christmas is around the corner. Hint, hint. I'll maybe post my... I've been good |
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