"Tahrir, " an ornamented singing style that resembles yodeling, gave the vocal parts an intriguingly Eastern flavor while still sounding like Western opera, and emphasized the uncertainty and anguish of the arias.

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But the old, yodeling tech giant's not stopping there -- the company also plans to trot out an app store by the years' end, which is currently in pilot testing with Ford and HSN (among others).

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