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Rdio, the much hyped stealth music service from the founders of Kazaa and Skype, has chosen the iPhone as its launchpad, a good a place as any. This week, the heavily-anticipated music startup suddenly surfaced on the App Store, reachable only to private beta testers. That club appears quite small and restricted at the moment, and probably includes a handful of developers, executives, and backers.

If that sounds like a giant tease, it is, though Rdio – started by the founders of Kazaa and Skype – promises to deliver a streaming, cloud-based solution. The top-level description sounds a lot like Spotify, Lala, and other cloud concepts, though given the entrepreneurial pedigree, some innovative twists are probably in store. “Rdio is like carrying a giant MP3 player in your pocket – you have unlimited and unrestricted access to all the music, and you get to select exactly the song, album or artist you want to hear,” the app description reads. [Read More]