Apple has begun to refund Lala.com users, following the company’s official shutdown of the service it acquired at the end of 2009. As promised, the company is rounding the amounts that it is sending the customers up to the next dollar, for refunds up to $10, and to the next five dollars, for higher amounts of c... |
7 June 2010
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Industry watchers are expecting Apple to launch a web-based version of iTunes, following the acquisition, and now the closing of Lala.com, a service that enabled its subscribes to upload their music libraries and access the songs through a Web browser on an array of devices. Lala.com offered its subscribers the abil... |
2 June 2010
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It has been confirmed that Lala.com, an online music service acquired by Apple in 2009, is now shutting down, a move fueling speculation that the Mac maker is on track to launching its own web-based music-streaming service – iTunes.com. Lala itself has announced the closure on its website, saying it would shut ... |
4 May 2010
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As Google keeps on growing it's always looking at new areas in which to expand. Recently though this has meant treading even more on the home turfs of some of its, now former, close allies. This is especially the case with Apple as the two companies find themselves competitors in more and more markets. For the m... |
11 December 2009
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On some fronts, it is believed Apple spent as much as $80 million on the recently closed Lala deal. However, others firmly uphold Lala was, in fact, purchased for $17 million by Apple. With the music-streaming company holding around $14M in cash at the time of the acquisition, reports suggest, the Mac maker supposedl... |
8 December 2009
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Reports have emerged this weekend with talk of Apple acquiring Palo Alto startup Lala. The service partially resembles iTunes (in the way users purchase music), but instead of downloading tracks, users stream them to their Internet-capable devices for just ten cents a track. The songs are stored on the “cloud&r... |
7 December 2009
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Google's not-so-spectacular-after-all music service, first rumored last week, is now official and no, it's not an iTunes killer or a Spotify killer for that matter. It's something closer to home for Google, an extension of its search engine dedicated to music. That being said, the music OneBox (Google ... |
29 October 2009
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