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Apple wants to dominate a space.
Elon wants to draw attention and dominate.
Nvidia could meld BB without causing competition concern
Dell

Apple complements the App Store and future iCar with QNX Certicom and other stuff, bid $11B
Nvidia steps in with $14B bid stating BlackBerry completments and non offensive to clients
Dell, take BB private & build missing value that has eluded canuck BoD and ceo $17B
Egoman ic es bids with $024B
AND consortium stabilize global mobility OS ownership/control/stability concerns with $42B final icing Ego Dust

Reports: Broadcom in talks to buy VMware in deal that could top $40B

Broadcom Inc. is reportedly in talks to buy VMware Inc. in an acquisition that would likely top $40 billion.

Reports by Bloomberg and others about the potential deal sent the price of shares of Palo Alto-based VMware (NYSE:VMW) up more than 20% in pre-market trading on Monday. Investors apparently believe that San Jose-based Broadcom would be willing to pay a more than $8 billion premium to buy VMware.
 

Broadcom's shares (Nasdaq:AVGO) were down by about 5% ahead of Monday's opening bell. The deal is seen as potentially giving Broadcom a bigger presence in cloud computing, where VMware partners with market leader Amazon Web Services.

Negotiations between Broadcom and VMware are ongoing and a deal is not imminent, the various reports in the past 24 hours said.

VMware's value has dropped by about 38% since it was spun off by Dell Technologies Inc. in November. The Texas-based tech giant was owned by the Texas tech giant for eight years. Dell still holds a 20% stake in the company.

Dell (NYSE:DELL) got VMware when it bought EMC Corp. in 2016 for more than $60 billion in the biggest tech M&A deal of all time. But it's never been a perfect fit and the spinoff came after much pressure from shareholders. 

Broadcom CEO Hock E. Tan is an active dealmaker whose deals include buying New York software company CA Technologies for $18.9 billion in 2018and a security division of Mountain View-based Symantec Corp. for $10.7 billion in 2019. Hock tried to buy San Diego chipmaker Qualcomm Inc. for about $117 billion but that was blocked in March 2018 by then-President Donald J. Trump on national security concerns.