Rumor: Apple to make huge acquisition, possibly Sony

[Arcturus]

haxxiy said:

Arcturus said:

haxxiy said:

Arcturus said:

haxxiy said:

Really? That would be pretty big. I read that Apple has like $50 billion to spend, how much would it cost to buy 51% of Sony's shares? Anybody out there knows?

$17.26 billion at Sony's current share price.

Oh man, Apple could very well do it then. I figure they'd be interested on Sony's TVs and the PS brand besides like a million patents. There would still be money enough for them to aim at IBM for instance...

I think IBM is a bit more out of reach than Sony :)   IBM's market cap is currently $174 billion.

But isn't IBM like 5 billion shares at $12 each? Half of it would ammount to about $30 billion unless I'm seeing something wrong here.

http://www.google.com/finance?q=ibm

IBM's shares are currently valued at $140 each, and there's 1.24B out there.