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Apple Confirms LALA Acquisition

Gary Singer — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:49:09 +0000

Apple spokesperson, Steve Dowling, confirmed acquisition of the online music streaming and downloading website LaLa by the music major Apple on Sunday. LaLa brings Apple the ability to scan users’ hard drives, create a duplicate music library that owners can access from Web-enabled devices, and sell songs for a dime each. But the key reason for Apple to acquire LaLa, as told to CNET News, was to obtain company’s payment and fulfillment systems. However, it is still unclear whether Apple is planning to launch its own streaming-music, or cloud-storage, or not.

Only a few days back LaLa had finished working on a new product, an iPod application, which made it even more lucrative for Apple. This application allowed a user to load all the songs on his PC or Mac onto his phone whereby resolving the issue of skimpy memory of an iPhone.

LaLa told the New York Times that though the acquisition meant loss for its stakeholders, it considered the offer after realizing that profitability was unlikely for its current business.

With this acquisition, the only frontrunners in digital music space now are Pandora, Amazon, Spotify, MySpace Music, Last FM, and Zune’s Marketplace. However, till date none of them have generated enough market share to challenge iTunes.

Spotify mobile now plays music on Symbian phones also

Nancy White — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:56:50 +0000

After Google Android and iPhones Spotify is now expanding its online music service for cellphones having symbian OS.

Spotify made the announcement today for its spotify for symbian application. With this launch spotify mobile will be available sets ranging from 6220 Classic, E71 and 5800 XpressMusic models to popular Sony Ericsson and Samsung smartphones, such as the Samsung GT-I8910 Omnia HD and Sony Ericsson Satio.

Spotify Mobile can stream over WiFi or 2.5G/3G to play music through your mobile phone and it also facilitates it’s users to let them store playlists in offline mode.

To check out your cellphones ability for supporting Spotify either visit m.spotify.com or enter your phone number here. Spotify will then send you instructions via SMS on how to get started with Spotify Mobile.

Google Android, iphones app now on Spotify

Nancy White — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:03:11 +0000

Famous for its digital music services Spotify, Swedish music streaming company has now taken a new step for providing more enjoyment to its users. This time Spotify comes with two new mobile platforms Apple’s iTunes and Google’s Android. Mobiles using Google’s mobile operating system Android, and iPhone users, can access the company’s new app to not only listen to songs but can also save more than 3,000 songs to play them while offline.

But music lovers will have to pay a charge of a premium fee of 9.99 pounds ($16.37) a month if they wish to listen to add free music i.e. a premium Spotify subscription. Users can also listen to music for free at the cost of watching adverts.

Looking for the success this firm has got since its establishment in 2008 it shows a great progressive pace as it has more than two million users in U.K. and more than six million across Europe presently.

Spotify can be seen as a big competitor to Apple’s iTunes store because of its large and comprehensive songs collection it provides to its users.