Episode description

Ben Bajarin of Techpinions talks with Rene about mergers, including the just-completed Microsoft and Nokia, the ongoing Comcast and Time Warner Cable, the just announced AT&T and DirectTV, and the rumored YouTube and Twitch and Apple and Beats deals.

• Expect More Tech Acquisitions in 2014
• Consumer Choice Is the New Tech Industry Theme
• Microsoft buys Nokia
• Comcast plans merger with Time Warner Cable
• AT&T acquiring DirectTV
• Google's YouTube rumored to be buying video game streamer Twitch for over $1 billion
• http://www.imore.com/beats-and-apple-does-such-marriage-make-sense

• Ben Bajarin of Techpinions

• Rene Ritchie of Mobile Nations

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