On December 20, 1996, Apple Computer officially bought NeXT, the computer company Steve Jobs founded after leaving Apple a decade earlier.

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On July 28, 2012, Apple acquired biometric authentication company AuthenTec. This gave Apple tech that would power Touch ID and Apple Pay.

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