{"id":3734,"date":"2016-05-17T00:31:43","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T16:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/17\/apples-latest-billion-dollar-business-venture-capital\/"},"modified":"2016-05-17T00:31:43","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T16:31:43","slug":"apples-latest-billion-dollar-business-venture-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/17\/apples-latest-billion-dollar-business-venture-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple&#039;s latest billion-dollar business: Venture capital?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tim_cook\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.3.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzA1LzE2LzhiL3RpbV9jb29rLjRjZDZkLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/a45fa9b7\/390\/tim_cook.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Apple%27s+latest+billion-dollar+business%3A+Venture+capital%3F&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F05%2F16%2Fapple-venture-capital%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F05%2F16%2Fapple-venture-capital%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Apple has a trendy new business that could impact the lives of millions and help it make big money in the future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>No, not the Apple Watch. We&#8217;re talking about Apple getting into venture capital.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday night, Apple shocked many by announcing a <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/05\/12\/apple-invests-1b-in-didi\/\">$1 billion investment in Didi Chuxing<\/a>, the top ride-hailing service in China.<\/p>\n<p>The investment re-ignited rumors about Apple&#8217;s intentions to build a car and apparently even <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/travisk\/status\/731018873168764929\">caused some relationship issues<\/a> for the CEO of Uber and his girlfriend. Others framed it as a play to improve Apple&#8217;s status in China, a key growth market.<\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s a more immediate and less discussed impact. Apple, a business with more than $200 billion in cash and marketable securities, is suddenly acting like a venture capital firm for the first time in years.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/05\/16\/apple-venture-capital\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/apple\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Apple<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/business\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Business<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/iUzOBhbSKAE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has a trendy new business that could impact the lives of millions and help it make big money in the future. No, not the Apple Watch. We&#8217;re talking about Apple getting into venture capital. On Thursday night, Apple shocked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/17\/apples-latest-billion-dollar-business-venture-capital\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[852,768],"class_list":["post-3734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-apple","tag-business"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}