{"id":23364,"date":"2017-12-11T13:44:10","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T07:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/?p=23364"},"modified":"2018-01-03T22:15:21","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T16:30:21","slug":"apple-to-acquire-shazam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techlekh.com.\/apple-to-acquire-shazam\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Inc. in Talks to Acquire Shazam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With <em>Google<\/em>\u00a0planning to start its own Music subscription service, <a href=\"http:\/\/techlekh.com\/category\/apple\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Apple<\/em><\/a> is stepping up its game. According to latest reports, Apple is in talks to acquire\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shazam.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shazam<\/a>;\u00a0<\/em>a music identification\u00a0app. Shazam is a popular app with the ability to identify music, movies, and TV shows. And it is expected to add more functionality to Apple Music with further integration with iOS&#8217;s Siri.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"23365\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/techlekh.com.\/apple-to-acquire-shazam\/desktop_ios_and_android\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/techlekh.com.\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/desktop_ios_and_android.png\" data-orig-size=\"800,620\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Shazam\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/techlekh.com.\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/desktop_ios_and_android-490x315.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/techlekh.com.\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/desktop_ios_and_android.png\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-23365 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/desktop_ios_and_android-490x315.png\" alt=\"apple acquire shazam\" width=\"490\" height=\"315\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Though the deal has not yet been confirmed by both Apple and Shazam, <strong>various sources report the deal is worth $400 million and will be signed next week.<\/strong> This is the biggest deal since Apple acquired Beats in 2014 for whopping $3 billion. It had recently purchased Podcast search engine<em>, PopUp Archive <\/em>as well<em>. <\/em>So we can guess that\u00a0Apple might be acquiring the startup to improve its audio streaming services.<\/p>\n<p><strong>With these plans to purchase audio searching services, Apple is <\/strong><strong>definitely<\/strong><strong> planning something big. The company will <\/strong><strong>likely<\/strong><strong> go<\/strong> <strong>head-on with its competitions like Spotify, Google Music, <\/strong><strong>and<\/strong><strong> Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4>More About Shazam<\/h4>\n<p>Shazam Entertainment Ltd. is a British app development company that created an app that can identify music, movies, advertising, and television shows, based on a short sample played and using the microphone on the device. The app is responsible for sending traffic to other music services like Spotify, Google Music Play, and Apple Music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Google\u00a0planning to start its own Music subscription service, Apple is stepping up its game. According to latest reports, Apple is in talks to acquire\u00a0Shazam;\u00a0a music identification\u00a0app. Shazam is a popular app with the ability to identify music, movies, and TV shows. 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