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Rdio Rounds Up More Cash for Online Music

No one has figured out how to make online music subscriptions really work, but people are still trying: Rdio has raised a new $17.5 million round led by Mangrove Capital. The company had previously raised at least $6 million from Skype and its founders; the new dollars are supposed to help it compete with Apple’s iTunes and a host of other subscription services, including Spotify, Rhapsody and MOG.


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The ultimate native ads are the glossy fashion ads in Vogue: in most cases, they’re better than the editorial, and as a result, readers spend as much time with the ads — if not more — as they do with the edit.

— Felix Salmon, writing about the potential of native advertising on the Web