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A Better Apple TV, Facebook’s Virtual Reality, ‘Divergent’ Defies the Critics, and Fox Doubles Down on Marvel Superheroes

By Tim Beyers, Nathan Alderman, and Ellen Simonson Bowman - Mar 28, 2014 at 3:30AM

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NASDAQ: AAPL

Apple Inc.

Market Cap

$2,687B

Today's Change

(-1.17%) -$1.92

Current Price

$161.84

Three Fools take to the air to tell you how to profit from the rising influence of geek culture.

Apple ( AAPL -1.17% ) talks with Comcast ( CMCSA 0.54% ) about crafting a special set-top box for the network, as Facebook ( FB -1.14% ) surfaces memories of dot-com excess with its $2 billion purchase of Oculus. Will either move benefit shareholders? And what about Divergent? Will critical reviews doom Lions Gate's (NYSE: LGF) franchise-in-the-making as Twenty-First Century Fox (NASDAQ: FOXA) coaxes Marvel superheroes fans with a fresh trailer for X-Men: Days of Future Past? Ellen Bowman, Nathan Alderman, and Tim Beyers have these stories and more in this week's episode of 1-Up on Wall Street!

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