just to give you an idea, this caught my eye.

curiouser and curiouser! said Alice.

GLTA,

R.

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"The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the regulatory body that makes the rules for publicly-traded companies, requires the public disclosure of any "significant" acquisition activity by a regulated company. For most companies contemplating a $3.2 billion acquisition, that disclosure would take the guise of a press release and the filing of form 8-K with the SEC.

The iPhone maker's sheer size means that even the reported multi-billion dollar Beats agreement might not be considered materially significant. That would allow Apple to prolong its decades-long streak of near radio silence when it comes to acquisitions, a policy that seems to suit current CEO Tim Cook just fine.

"And so you can bet that you will continue to see acquisitions, some of which we'll try to keep quiet and some of which seem to be impossible to keep quiet," Cook said of their competitive strategy during the company's last quarterly earnings call."