Apple Said to Be Acquiring Shazam, the Song Identifying App
- 6 years ago
Apple Said to Be Acquiring Shazam, the Song Identifying App
A decade ago, Apple’s iPhone helped make a music-tech star out of Shazam, the app that,
almost like magic, could identify a song just by hearing a few seconds of it.
Shazam’s technology was introduced in 2002 as a dial-up service
that would listen to a song for 30 seconds and send its user a text message identifying it.
The price was not known, but was expected to be far less than the $1 billion that Shazam was valued at in its most recent fund-raising round in 2015.
The tech giant is close to to acquiring Shazam, according to a person with knowledge of the deal who was not authorized to discuss it.
A decade ago, Apple’s iPhone helped make a music-tech star out of Shazam, the app that,
almost like magic, could identify a song just by hearing a few seconds of it.
Shazam’s technology was introduced in 2002 as a dial-up service
that would listen to a song for 30 seconds and send its user a text message identifying it.
The price was not known, but was expected to be far less than the $1 billion that Shazam was valued at in its most recent fund-raising round in 2015.
The tech giant is close to to acquiring Shazam, according to a person with knowledge of the deal who was not authorized to discuss it.