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Apple Strikes Deal to Buy the Music Start-Up Lala

5 December 2009

In the most recent sign that Apple is looking at alternative ways for people to store and play their digital music, the company has agreed to buy Lala, a four-year-old start-up based in Palo Alto, Calif., a person with knowledge of the deal said Friday.

Everyone had assumed for a while that Apple was going to get into streaming music at some point, but this is the first actual sign it might be happening.

I wonder if Lala is to their forthcoming streaming product as SoundJam was to iTunes back in the day?

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5 December 2009