About a week ago, rumors began to surface that Apple was looking to acquire headphones maker Beats By Dr. Dre, and almost immediately the music and tech industries collectively lost their minds.

Dr. Dre and Jimmy ... most importantly, the Beats Music service. In a breakdown of the deal from the Wall Street Journal, Apple paid about $500 million for Beats Music and $2.5 billion for Beats ...

According to Financial Times, via Forbes, Apple is in talks with Dr. Dre and his business partner, record executive Jimmy Iovine, to buy their Beats brand of electronics for $3.2 billion ...

which makes the wildy popular Beats by Dr. Dre headphones, to Apple Inc. Dre, 49, and Iovine, 61, are getting $2.6 billion in cash, $400 million in Apple stock, and big time jobs with the company.

In a rather adventurous move, Apple appears to have acquired Beats Electronics for $3.2 billion - the company co-founded by Dr. Dre in 2008 that in just six short years has sewn up the entire high ...

How is Apple sweetening a potential Beats acquisition deal? By offering a pair of senior positions to Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre. According ... The $3.2 billion deal for Beats, Apple’s largest ...

Dr. Dre and Sean ... in which Dre was standing right beside him — to Facebook in 2014, prematurely sharing that Apple was about to buy Dre’s Beats brand for $3.2 billion before the deal ...

Monster has since released an in-ear version dubbed Beats by Dr. Dre Tour, with a flat, tangle-free cable that rolls into a neat circular carry case. The thing is, I just wasn't game to test them ...