[The Next Web] Apple reportedly considered buying-out Time Warner


Following the trails of Amazon and Netflix, Apple too might be looking to step up its production of original video content. According to a report from the Financial Times, last year a top Apple executive broached the prospect of a potential Time Warner buyout at a commercial meeting between the two companies to discuss the possibility of partnering up in a future Apple video streaming service. Discussions, however, failed to materialise into anything serious and acquisition proposals never reached either Apple’s Tim Cook or Time Warner’s Jeff Bewkes. Both companies have since refused to comment the subject. Given its high-profile assets…

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