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For a period, the company was majority-owned by Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC. The company reduced its stake to 25% in 2012, and sold its remaining stake back to the company in 2013. Concurrently, Carlyle Group replaced HTC as a minority shareholder, alongside Dr. Dre and Iovine in late 2013.
The Studio 3 sticks to traditional microUSB charging, instead of switching to Lightning. The company might be owned by Apple now, but not every Beats customer owns an iPhone, so it’s a sensible move – even if we’d have liked to see reversible USB-C instead.
Beats Studio Pro (2023) verdict. With extremely strong competition from Sony in particular, you’ve got to really want these headphones. But they play nicely with both Apple and Android – and on the former, they work just as natively as AirPods.
Beats by Dr. Dre (Beats) is a leading audio brand founded in 2006 by Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine. Through its family of premium consumer headphones, earphones and speakers, Beats has introduced an entirely new generation to the possibilities of premium sound entertainment.
CUPERTINO, California—May 28, 2014—Apple® today announced it has agreed to acquire the critically acclaimed subscription streaming music service Beats Music, and Beats Electronics, which makes the popular Beats headphones, speakers and audio software.
As part of the iPhone 7 reveal, Beats announced that it had three new headphone options in the works. All three would feature the W1 chip that powered Apple's own true wireless AirPods.
CUPERTINO (CBS / AP) — Apple is striking a new chord with a $3 billion acquisition of Beats Electronics, a headphone and music streaming specialist that also brings the swagger of rapper Dr....
Apple’s top exec Eddy Cue and Beats’ Jimmy Iovine talked to Re/code co-founders Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher at the their Code Conference on Wednesday night, revealing why the company spent $3...
Soon after coming up with the name Beats, the pair partnered with Monster Cable, a manufacturer based in Brisbane, California, to develop and manufacture the first Beats headphones — which were called “Beats by Dr. Dre Studio” headphones. They were released in 2008.
In six years, Interscope records mogul Jimmy Iovine and hip-hop icon Dr. Dre have turned Beats By Dr. Dre headphones into a $1 billion-plus business. Now, together with new president and former...