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Geoff Ralston Talks About Education Incubator, Imagine K12

Kara Swisher in News on May 23, 2011 at 6:01 am PT

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

Liz Gannes in Social on March 23, 2011 at 5:00 pm PT

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?

John Paczkowski in Mobile on November 15, 2010 at 7:52 am PT

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

Peter Kafka in Media on September 15, 2010 at 10:13 am PT

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"

Kara Swisher in News on September 2, 2010 at 3:05 am PT

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.

Apple Pulls the Plug on Lala, Replaces It With…Nada

Peter Kafka in Media on June 1, 2010 at 3:30 am PT

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

Peter Kafka in Media on April 30, 2010 at 11:37 am PT

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?

John Paczkowski in News on January 15, 2010 at 10:14 am PT

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.

RealNetworks Wants a Convergence Play–Just Like Everyone Else

Peter Kafka in Media on January 4, 2010 at 3:30 am PT

RealNetworks figures you’re going to want to move your entertainment off the Web and onto whatever device you want, whenever you want. So do a lot of competitors.