>Besides, acquisitions of young companies tend to be better for everyone involved, as compared to later-stage deals, said Geoff Ralston, who recently sold Lala

>Besides, acquisitions of young companies tend to be better for everyone involved, as compared to later-stage deals, said Geoff Ralston, who recently sold Lala to Apple. Integrations of billion-dollar companies almost never work, he said. If there was no acquisition of LaLa, we'd all be listening to music for 10 cents a track on our iPhones and Androids. Hopefully they come up with something awesome at Apple.