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The iTunes cloud chatter has been loud and confusing recently so it’s interesting to see Bill Ngyuen, the former-CEO of LaLa, the streaming service Apple snapped up, talking about what it might do next. In an interview with Fortune, he confirms that Apple bought the company “for the people” rather than the streaming cloud service it had built.

Fortune threw the idea that Apple is working on an iTunes cloud service at Ngyuen and he suggests that the company may actually be working on a hardware and software platform for other companies like Pandora or Netflix to buy into. You can see Ngyuen talking after the break. Let us know what you make of his theory in the comments.

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Next week’s Apple event has stoked up plenty of new rumours but while we’re almost certain to see the new iPod touch, if you’ve been waiting for iTunes streaming, you may have to wait a little longer. New reports suggest Apple will unveil a new, more social iTunes but isn’t ready to jump to the cloud just yet…

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Apple has announced that it’s closing LaLa, the music streaming service it acquired in December last year. The LaLa website will close as of May 31, just ahead of the Apple World Wide Developers Conference on June 7. It finally looks like an iTunes streaming service is arriving imminently…

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Steve Jobs told Apple shareholders at the corporation’s annual shareholder meeting yesterday that Apple “requires stability”. , Jobs revealed that’s what keeps him up at night…

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Apple’s set to launch a streaming video service as well as iTunes music in the cloud, according to the latest theory around the firm’s recent strategic moves. Why and how would Jobs and co create a streaming video iTunes?
The theory, put forward by Wired, is that Apple’s huge new data centre, move into video cameras with the iPhone 3GS and iPod Nano and purchase of Lala all add up to a plan to both stream music and video.
The last element of Apple’s video streaming plan was put in place this week with approval for live-video streaming iPhone apps. The feature had previously been hidden in the API but now apps from Ustream and Knocking Live Video have hit the iTunes App Store.
Add the streaming video and the rumoured Apple tablet to iPhones and iPods with video capabilities and Apple will be in a position to create real-time video sharing services. It’ll be a playground for citizen journalists, rampant narcissists and people who just want to share their videos with their family and friends.
At the launch of the latest iPod Nano in September, Steve Jobs made it clear that Apple wants a slice of the video market: “We want to get in on this.” So it’s not crazy to think that it’s recent moves point to a streaming video future.
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iTunes LogoApple’s set to launch a streaming video service as well as iTunes music in the cloud, according to the latest theory around the firm’s recent strategic moves. How and why would Jobs and co create a streaming video iTunes?

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iTunesiTunes only recently began offering previews of songs inside regular web browsers, but Apple could be looking to expand on that with the recent purchase of LaLa. Now a new report claims it’ll be for browser based streaming, so you’ll be able to listen in on any computer, even your locked down work PC.

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iTunesApple has bought music streaming site LaLa. Could its decision to snaffle up the much smaller music site be the first step towards iTunes streaming from the cloud? The evidence seems strong.

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