Items tagged with Shazam

by Shane McGlaun - Wed, Dec 13, 2017

Shazam Music Identification App Gobbled Up By Apple For Reported $400 Million

Apple is sitting on one of the largest cash reserves of any technology company on the planet, and every now and again it reaches into its piggy bank to purchase companies relevant to its interests. Apple has recently purchased Shazam, the app that is most famous for for identifying songs. Shazam not only identifies... Read more...

by Paul Lilly - Thu, Apr 17, 2014

Apple To Fully Integrate Shazam Into iOS For Melodic Identification Of Your Groove

Apple is reportedly working with Shazam to integrate a song-discovery feature into iOS. This would allow iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch owners to be able to identify a song and artist that they hear blaring over the radio or on television, just as iOS, Android, and Windows Phone users can currently do using the official... Read more...

by Joshua Gulick - Mon, Jul 08, 2013

Carlos Slim Jams with Shazam To The Tune of $40 Million Dollars

You’re plugging away on your laptop, waiting for your unnecessarily hot tea to cool, and you decide to buy the song that’s playing on the coffee shop speakers – but you have no idea what the song is called or who wrote it. What do you do? If you answered “Ask the barista,” you clearly... Read more...