Rdio Enters U.S. Cloud Music Game, As Apple Re-Aims Lala at iPad, New Apple TV

Spotify has been in and out of the tech news for months, with many will-it, or won't-it stories about its upcoming U.S. launch. Now Rdio, a similar rival music streaming service, has grabbed the headlines by launching first. We've also been perusing what Apple will do with Lala, the cloud-based music service it purchased last year, and now it seems the team at Cupertino is going to surprise us by morphing it not into streaming music, but video sometime this year.

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