2 posts and columns on Lala.com

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

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.

Google Steps Gingerly Into Music With “One Box”

in Media on October 21, 2009 at 7:50 am PT

Google insists, over and over, that it has no intention of getting into the content business. So how is it finessing its way into the music business? Very carefully. The search giant is working on a new service that will provide searchers with streaming music, which sounds a whole lot like a content play at first blush. But Google will only be offering limited bits of music, and it will be relying on other companies–Lala.com, MySpace’s iLike and Imeem, sources say–to actually provide the tunes.
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