The company even acquired streaming technology Simplify Media to boost its service.
The 10 plus acquisitions Spotify has closed have been mostly small, talent-led deals that boost its service or tech.
Apple is set to release a new phone, in addition to boosting its services, so it's assumed that it won't be long before it returns to Apple-like growth.
Cybersecurity and analysis firm FireEye has boosted its service with the acquisition of competitor iSight in a $200 million deal.
AT&T's $85.4 billion acquisition of Time Warner hasn't yet completed, but the company is already leveraging Time Warner assets to boost its own services – first with its streaming TV service DirecTV Now, which is currently giving out free HBO, and now today it's rolling out free HBO to AT&T's "Unlimited Plus" wireless plan subscribers.
It will use the new tie to boost its managed services business, launching a new partnership with vArmour selling data center security services in Asia Pacific.
And Reuters is now investing an additional $825 million to boost its web services with real-time stock quots and analyst reports.
Overall, Magyer says that within the next five years, GE's stock price will do well, particularly as the economy and commercial real estate sectors improve, which will boost its financial services wing.
Finland's Nokia, which has been looking for ways to boost its location services business, also recently signed mapping deals with Groupon Inc and Amazon.com Inc.
Yesterday, it completed its second acquisition to boost its GrabPay service.
