Today, the hugely popular music recognition app Shazam announced the rather staggering news that its app-based service had exceeded 100 billion song recognitions. To put that in perspective ...

Shazam was originally an SMS music recognition service. It is now one of the most widely used mobile applications in the world. And the service has reached a new milestone in its history by ...

After all, Shazam has been around since apps were but a twinkle in Steve Jobs’s eye. The company was founded in 1999, and started as a text-based service in 2002. It was quick to move on third ...

Shazam's Fast Forward predicts the songs you'll stream in the future It's based on "Shazam data" and editorial picks 50 new songs from emerging artists; 10 new artists announced each day Shazam ...

On Friday, TechCrunch reported that Apple had agreed to acquire music discovery service and app-maker Shazam. Today, Apple made it official confirming the deal to BuzzFeed News. Shazam, which makes ...

But with growing competition between Apple Music and Spotify - which also ties into Shazam - Apple may have felt the need to secure the service rather than risk its Swedish rival or some other ...

Shazam's all-time chart shows that dance music ... it was called 2580 - the phone number users dialled to access the service. At the time, it had one million songs in its database and took 15 ...

This week on Unwind, John is joined by Alex Guyot to recap the week, including John’s story about the 5th anniversary of the App Store Review Guidelines comic book, milestones reached by Apple’s ...