Google Cozies Up to the Pentagon
On Monday, the Defense Department’s best-known geek announced that she was leaving the Pentagon for a job at Google. It was an unexpected move: Washington and Mountain View don’t trade top executives very often. But it shouldn’t come as a complete surprise. The internet colossus has had a long and deeply complicated relationship with America’s…
Rdio Overhauls Social Music Subscription to Combat ‘Boring,’ ‘Spreadsheet’ Approach
Rdio, the music subscription service from Skype and Kazaa co-founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, announced major changes to its music subscription service designed to “put music and people front and center,” in an effort to evolve past what it calls the “boring” “spreadsheet” approach of some other music services. The company unveiled new apps…