{"id":122863,"date":"2018-01-02T15:34:10","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T13:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=122863"},"modified":"2019-02-13T15:29:50","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T13:29:50","slug":"there-is-a-40-chance-that-apple-will-acquire-netflix-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/122863-there-is-a-40-chance-that-apple-will-acquire-netflix-report","title":{"rendered":"There is a 40% chance that Apple will acquire Netflix &#8211; Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that US President Donald Trump\u2019s corporate tax cut has been passed, there is a 40% likelihood that Apple may acquire Netflix,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/apple-potential-merger-acquisition-candidates-aapl-2017-12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Business Insider reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Citi analysts\u00a0Jim Suva and\u00a0Asiya Merchant\u00a0ranked potential Apple merger and acquisition targets in a note to clients sent in December, listing Netflix as the most likely candidate to buy.<\/p>\n<p>The note was written\u00a0before\u00a0Disney announced that it would acquire 20th Century Fox\u2019s studio and TV assets, giving a potential Apple-Disney deal a 20% to 30% chance.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, Trump\u2019s\u00a0cut in corporate taxes and a one-time allowance for companies to repatriate cash stored overseas without a major tax hit gives Apple a much larger potential cash warchest to buy new companies.<\/p>\n<p>Business Insider reported that Apple has about $252 billion in cash, with much of it held outside the United States.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/236518-why-apple-should-buy-netflix.html\">Why Apple should buy Netflix<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that US President Donald Trump\u2019s corporate tax cut has been passed, there is a 40% likelihood that Apple may acquire Netflix,\u00a0Business Insider reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":88021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[959,10751],"class_list":["post-122863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-apple","tag-netflix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}