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Apple acquires Lala

by Alex Schleifer
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Apple has just acquired the struggling yet highly popular music streaming site Lala. Apple has been under pressure to start offering a music streaming service to compete with services such as Zune Pass and more crucially Spotify. Lala has been under pressure to start turning a profit. Apple knows how to turn a profit. Sounds like a good idea.

Now let’s see how they manage to squeeze yet another feature into iTunes’ UI.

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Alex Schleifer
Alex is CEO of Sideshow , an award winning creative agency. You can read his blog here.

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