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Google and Facebook take on iTunes via Lala link up

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Oct 28, 2009

Google and Facebook are reported to have struck separate partnerships with online music streaming and digital store Lala.

The move puts the search and social networking giants in direct competion with the likes of Apple’s iTunes and Amazon.

 

Lala.com offers a hybrid approach between a standard online music streaming service and an online store like iTunes.

 

Users can listen to any of the songs that are part of its extensive 7-million titles library for free once, after which they can opt to buy a streamed version of the song for $0.10, or pay $0.99 for an MP3 download. LaLa currently counts about 5 million streamings a month.

 

The facebook deal will see the social network offer the service to its users, getting 30% of revenues generated.

 

Rumors of a second deal with Google could be announced next week. The deal would see Google searches yielding a widget in the result sthat lets the user stream the full song.


Lala.com

 

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