Shazam

Plans by the UK government to curtail the number of skilled tech workers allowed into the country have received a stinging rebuke from over 200 of the UK’s most successful…

230 Entrepreneurs Rebuke UK Gov Plans To Curb Migration For Tech Talent

Music discovery platform Shazam is today rolling out a new feature in partnership with over two dozen artists that will allow Shazam users to see which songs their favorite musicians are listening to…

Shazam Takes On Apple Music Connect With New Social Features Aimed At Musicians And Their Fans

You’ve been able to use your voice (“Ok Google”) to do all sorts of stuff on Android for a while now. But said stuff has all been built-in by Google…

You Can Now Use Shazam, Instacart, And Other Android Apps With “Okay Google” Commands

Data Will Save Music

The writing is on the wall. The music industry is dying. Nobody buys music. It’s the Wild West. The last one might be true. But the rest? Not exactly. In…

Data Will Save Music

About a year ago, online education platform Coursera launched “specializations” — its version of college credentials. To graduate from the programs, students take a number of classes and then finish…

Coursera Partners With Google, Instagram, 500 Startups And Others On Students’ Capstone Projects

Music discovery firm Shazam has taken in a new round of financing, scooping up $30 million of investment — in a deal which values the business at more than $1…

Shazam Scoops Up $30M To Expand Partnerships, Now Valued At $1BN+

After a partnership with Apple that includes integration in Siri in iOS 8, music identification service Shazam is getting even cosier with Cupertino with a new Mac app available now.…

Shazam Debuts A Mac App That Listens From Your Menu Bar

Facebook has a new weapon in the battle against Twitter to host lucrative conversations about media. A Shazam-esque opt-in feature coming to the iOS and Android status composer can activate…

Facebook Adds Shazam-Style Audio Recognition To Help You Automatically Tag Posts With TV Shows And Songs

Just over a week ago, Shazam updated the free version of its mobile apps for iOS and Android so that users in the UK (and Germany, Mexico and Brazil, as…

Shazam Pulls The Plug On UK Spotify Users

You may not have heard of NCM Media Networks, the company that Shazam is announcing a partnership with today, but if you’ve been to a movie theater recently, chances are…

Movie Theater Pre-Shows Are About To Become Shazam-able, Thanks To Partnership With NCM

Shazam, best known for its music recognition app and platform which has become a global success, has raised $40 million in new funding from America Movil, the largest wireless carrier…

Shazam Pulls In $40M From America Movil To Take On Latin America

Although the majority of Shazam‘s over 93 million U.S. users still use the app on their smartphones to identify, tag and share the songs they’re “hearing,” a growing chunk of that…

Shazam Revamps Its iPad App For Second Screen Action, Can Now “AutoTag” In Background While You Watch TV

Shazam and Rdio have offered something wonderful for U.S. users as of fall 2012, providing full track streaming for tagged music via Rdio, thanks to a “Listen Free on Rdio”…

Rdio And Shazam Expand Full Music Track Streaming Partnership To UK, Canada, Australia, Brazil And Mexico

In March last year Yahoo’s SVP of the Europe, the Middle East and Africa region abruptly quit his role in the rejuvenation of Yahoo, supposedly to be closer to family…

Shazam Brings On Former Yahoo Exec Rich Riley To Position For Growth And IPO

Shazam — the smartphone media discovery app that is expanding from music into TV and advert discovery with the help of chief product officer Daniel Danker poached from the BBC — today announced a partnership with…

Shazam Partners With The ‘Spotify Of India’, Saavn, To Improve Its South Asian Music Recognition

Shazam, the erstwhile exclusively music discovery app that has expanded into TV as a companion app letting users ‘tag’ TV shows (and ads) to get quick access to a plethora…

Shazam Poaches New Product Chief From BBC iPlayer To Lead Its TV Discovery Push

WiOffer, a new mobile app platform which aims to connect TV viewers directly with advertisers, is now available in the iOS App Store and will begin running its first WiO…

WiO Takes On Shazam With Second Screen TV Ad Campaign & New iOS App

With Shazam infiltrating our TVs, showing up in Super Bowl ads, and passing 200 million users, you just might think that the market has its music-identification king. But SoundHound would…

Chasing Shazam, SoundHound Quietly Passes 100M Users, Averaging 200K Downloads/Day

When you use Shazam, you’re probably identifying a song on the car radio, in a coffee shop, or anywhere else. Recently, however, the company has been expanding into the world…

Shazam Makes Its Big TV Push, Says App Can Now Tag Any Show On Any Channel

Shazam has long been described as magic. You hear a song — perhaps a brand new one or maybe one that you’ve heard a million times but never knew the…

Shazam Can Now Identify Your Content In As Little As A Second

Mobile music discovery service Shazam has just revealed an updated version of its application for Android users which takes advantage of the new technology in Android 4.0 called “Android Beam.”…

Shazam Adds Support For Android Beam: Tap To Share Music, Tour Dates, Offers & More

The Super Bowl is just around the corner, but unfortunately most of us won’t be able to attend the big game. Parties are fun and all, but there’s nothing like…

Shazam, Delivery Agent Let You Buy Super Bowl Gear While Watching The Big Game

iTunes is great and everything, but it’s still just a standard music player. The most exciting feature of the whole program is Genius, at least in my opinion, and even…

Shazam Launches New App Focused On Lyric Play: Shazam Player (Update)

The folks over at Shazam have been busy little bees recently. After announcing Shazam for TV, offering up the ability to purchase products seen on television programming courtesy of Delivery…

Shazam Continues Reversing Freemium Model, Brings LyricPlay To Free App

Back in late 2009, then-free music identifying service Shazam made a rather drastic change to their business model: they went freemium. Everybody got 5 free song identifications per month… but…

Shazam Ditches The Monthly Tagging Limits For iOS And Android Devices

Yesterday Shazam, the company that lets users identify recorded music simply by holding their phones up toward a speaker, announced that it had raised a whopping $32 million. The company’s…

Shazam, the application that lets you identify nearly any piece of recorded music by holding your smartphone within earshot of a speaker, is swinging for the fences: the company has…

Shazam, which now calls itself a mobile discovery company after broadening out beyond just music to also target the living room, has announced that co-founder of MTV Networks, John Sykes,…

The living room and, specifically, television is Shazam’s next growth target. That’s something we’ve known for a while as the service aims to expand beyond its music recognition roots to…

The living room and, specifically, television is Shazam’s next growth target. That’s something we’ve known for a while as the service aims to expand beyond its music recognition roots to…