More New Music Industry News: Apple vs. Google, BACH, VEVO, Bad Videos & More

• Is Apple's Lala purchase the start of a trend? Google and Apple are both buying startups to thwart each other. (eWeek) More: Why Apple Really Bought Lala.
• Apple has counter-sued Nokia claiming iPhone patent infringement. (TechCrunch)
• BACH signs deals with four leading Chinese digital music companies. (press release)
• Vevo’s Caraeff: ‘We Have To Establish Credibility’ (paidContent) I'm not sure it really matters, as I wrote here.
• Radio Days: the celluloid afterlife of real radio. -  In the movies, radio is a mythic force: local, rebellious, life-changing. This hardly describes the reality at commercial radio stations today, but it does tell us something about how radio was—and about how we want it to be. (ars)
• The live music business was stronger than expected globally in 2009. (Billboard)
• Citidel Broadcasting is preparing to file for bankruptcy. (FMQB)
• 10 surefire ways to make a terrible video for a good song. (Onion's AV Club)
  
• Kyle Bylin's latest excellent essay "Music as Commerce: Understanding a Mindset" gets much deserved props from Techdirt's Mike Masnick in his post "Understanding The Decline And Fall Of The Major Record Labels".
• On the MidemNet blog, IODA's Adam Rabinotwitz shares his reaction to my previous MIDEM post Doesn't It Feel Lately Like Everyone Is In The Music Business? (MidemNet)