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What’s Really Going on With Color: A Small Apple Talent Acquisition
Color’s engineering team — about 20 people, almost the entire company — is being “acqhired” by Apple at what’s being called a “nominal” price of something like $2 million to $5 million.
Geoff Ralston Talks About Education Incubator, Imagine K12
Instead of heading to another company or starting one, longtime Silicon Valley Geoff Ralston is about to welcome a new crop of start-ups to Imagine K12, a new education incubator. Ralston explains it all in the video after the jump.
Video: With $41M in Hand, Color Offers New Proximity-Based Social Network
Bill Nguyen, the serial entrepreneur who most recently sold Lala to Apple for around $80 million, is today launching Color, a proximity-based social network with no privacy settings.
What’s Apple Announcing Tomorrow: A Subscription Service? ITunes in the Cloud?
Apple plans to make an iTunes-related announcement Tuesday at 7 am PT. “Tomorrow is just another day,” a notice on Apple.com reads. “That you’ll never forget. Check back here tomorrow for an exciting announcement from iTunes.”
A Store, a Cloud Service and Sharing: Here's What Google Music Might Look Like
A download store, a music locker and the ability to share some of your music with your friends, for $25 a year. That’s what Google would like its music service to look like, according to a new report. There aren’t any deals in place yet, so the reality may look entirely different. But it sounds good on paper….
Steve Jobs on Why Facebook Is Not Part of Apple's New Ping Music Social Network: "Onerous Terms"
Yesterday, at the Apple music event in San Francisco, I had a short chat with Apple CEO Steve Jobs about its new social music service, called Ping. Essentially, it is a vertical version–in this case for music–of Facebook. But, except for Apple borrowing the blue color scheme from the powerful social networking site, Facebook is nowhere on Ping. So, Jobs explained why.
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ITunes in the Cloud Is Still MIA, May Stay That Way
Ever since Apple bought Lala in December, tech prognosticators have told us that an “iTunes in the cloud,” featuring all the streaming music you could dream of, was just around the corner. But it has yet to show up, even though Lala has gone away. And it doesn’t seem to be coming any time soon, CNET’s Greg Sandoval reminds us–Apple doesn’t have deals with the labels and doesn’t seem to be pushing hard for them (but Google (GOOG) seems keen on launching its own service). So what is Apple up to? One clue: The Lala team is now reportedly working on a video project.Apple Pulls the Plug on Lala, Replaces It With…Nada
The streaming music service Apple bought in December is gone. There’s nothing in its place–and it may (still) be a while before that changes.
Waiting for iTunes.com? Don’t Hold Your Breath
Apple is shutting down Lala, its cloud-based music service, in a month. When will it open a replacement? No time soon, it appears.
Apple Has Hired an M&A Specialist? What’s Adobe’s Market Cap, Again?
Apple made its first acquisition on March 2, 1988, with the purchase of Network Innovations. Since then, it has made just 23 more, including its recent $275 million purchase of Quattro Wireless. Which isn’t all that many for a company with $23 billion in the bank (as a point of comparison, Google has acquired 11 companies in the last 18 months alone). But that may soon change, because Cupertino finally has a dedicated acquisitions specialist, Adrian Perica.