Tech giant Apple has purchased over 100 companies over the last six years, said the company’s CEO Tim Cook in an annual meeting of shareholders on Tuesday. Cook said that Apple acquires a company about every three to four weeks and every acquisition is mostly aimed at acquiring technology and talent, a media report said.

“We’re not afraid to look at acquisitions of any size,” Cook said in the meeting, quoted MacRumors. “Focus is on small, innovative companies that complement our products and help push them forward,” the Apple CEO told the shareholders.

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Apple in the first quarter of the 2021 fiscal year brought $111.4 billion (£78.7bn), the largest revenue of the company of all time.

A BBC report said that the largest acquisition of Apple was of Beats Electronics in the last decade worth $3 billion. Beats Electronics, a headphone maker company, was founded by rapper and producer Dr Dre.

Another high-profile acquisition of Apple is of Shazam, a music recognition software company, in 2018 for $400 million.

The notable acquisitions by Apple in the last year include VR/AR startups NextVR and Spaces, Dark Sky, a weather app, mobile payments service Mobeewave, and others. Reportedly, Apple bought 20-25 companies only in the six months preceding May 2019.

Apple mostly buys small technology firms and incorporates their innovation into its own products. For example, it purchased PrimeSense, a 3D sensing company whose technology contributes to Apple’s FaceID, a BBC report said.