Category: Bill Nguyen

The inside story of how Apple bought music startup Lala, and then bought it again

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“Lala was the pioneer in online music streaming before services like Spotify and Pandora really took off,” Alex Heath reports for Cult of Mac. “If you Googled a song pre-2009, a Lala link was the first result. Founded in 2005, Lala underwent some business model changes until it became a full-fledged music streaming site. A…

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What’s really going on with Color: Apple acquires engineering talent, not the company

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“You’d be forgiven if you were confused by the swirl of stories around the social video start-up Color in the past 24 hours” Liz Gannes and John Paczkowski report for AllThingsD. “Now, having talked with numerous people about the situation, here is a storyline that actually checks out.” “What’s really happening is that Color’s engineering…

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Apple acquires Color Labs, sources say

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“Color Labs, the photo-and-video-sharing social network that received much criticism over its pre-launch $41 million funding round, is about to be acquired by Apple,” Ken Yeung and Matthew Panzarino report for TNW. “We’ve heard through trusted sources that the startup was nabbed for a price that is in the ‘high double digits’, as in millions,…

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