Apple has to be keen to build a formidable streaming subscription service in light of the growth of that segment in recent years, and if Beats Music behind the scenes looks much more impressive than it might to outside observers (and Apple is especially privy to that information), than this potential acquisition makes a lot more sense.
Today's Golden Globes showed how formidable streaming platforms have become, with Netflix's "Roma" winning the awards for best foreign language film and best director, strong harbingers for success at next month's Academy Awards ("Roma" previously won the Golden Lion, the Venice Film Festival's highest honor).
While Netflix beat big rivals in the DVD rental business, like Blockbuster and Wal-Mart, it faces an increasing phalanx of formidable players in streaming movies, like Apple, Amazon and Hulu.
According to reports, the Google-owned site has begun recruiting a "formidable team" of experienced streaming engineers.
These technologies gather unprecedented data streams leading to formidable challenges around privacy, profiling, manipulation, and personal safety.
Big data, characterized by huge volumes of continuously varying streams of information, present formidable challenges in terms of acquisition, processing, and transmission, especially when one considers novel technology platforms such as the Internet-of-Things and Wireless Sensor Networks.
Google could grow a potentially huge new revenue stream, plus the service would be a formidable competitor to the rumored Apple broadband TV service (Apple is reportedly talking to Disney and CBS about supplying content for the service).
As midnight approached, a stream of taxis headed north to the Soho Beach House, where White Cube, the formidable London gallery, held its annual party to celebrate itself.
The ruggedness of the Appalachians, the transverse ranges by which they are crossed, their maze of streams and rivers, and their lack of natural passes created a formidable barrier to early explorers and settlers.
Apart from its unlikely name of Stan, it is about to face formidable competition from the world's largest and most aggressive player in video-streaming, the US giant Netflix, which launches in Australia next month.
