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Apple Is Reportedly Buying Shazam For Nearly Half a Billion Dollars (phonedog.com)
Apple is close to acquiring Shazam, one of the most recognized services for music recognition. While the exact amount is unknown, the service may be purchased by Apple for around $400 million. PhoneDog reports: Apple is close to acquiring Shazam, say sources speaking to TechCrunch. The deal will reportedly be signed this week and could be announced as early as next Monday. A report from Recode echoes the news of Apple acquiring Shazam, adding that Shazam will likely be valued at around $400 million. Apple -- and other companies -- already offer a music recognition service, but Apple must see something in Shazam's services that it thinks can help improve its own music recognition if it's going to drop nearly half a billion dollars on this deal. Shazam is able to identify TV shows, films, and advertisements in addition to music, so perhaps Apple sees some benefit to these abilities, too.
That's all I'll pay to you.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
Who are they, and why does Apple feel they need to purchase them?
Please help.
...will be very interested in this automated recognition thing.
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It's amusing that this is actually probably the shortest non-trivial on-topic post one could have made. I bet The Register will steal that gem
But I never though Billy Batson would sell out!
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People are still using shazam??
I thought that was over a long time ago!
Maybe this is a "hearing aid" for Siri on HomePod?
As soon as it's official, I'll delete the app.
Captain Marvel is a DC character.
Here's hoping that they remove the ridiculous amount of bloat that Shazam's app has become.
(Of course, having had to deal with iTunes on rare occasion, I'm not *that* hopeful.)
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Buy an that recognizes multi-media and re-direct sale to iTunes. This isn't exactly rocket science. I'm kind of surprised Apple didn't buy Shazaam years ago.
What's kind of puzzling is that you can already do some of this with Siri:
Maybe they are looking to do deeper integration ?
Since the feature was baked into Google, I've seen 0 need for it. I guess iOS needs to eventually catch up to the Android game, though. Hopefully one day Mama Apple will allow you to treat your $1000 pocket computer like an actual fucking computer...
I like their towels. They're made in Germany so you know they're good. But why would Apple buy them?
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
"Shazam is able to identify TV shows, films, and advertisements"...you, your pets, your car, your spouse, your uncle, your mail man, your garage door, your doorbell, your garbage truck, your microwave oven, your treadmill, your keyboard, your heartbeat, the sound your food makes as you unwrap it...
Was this supposed to be funny?
How many think this is Apple's way of "getting even" with Android users, probably by forcing them to download a version of quicktime to their phone??
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But does anybody ever wondered what "C.D." stands for? Well, it stands for Creimy Dumpty of course!
Creimy Dumpty sat on the wall,
Creimy Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses
And all the king's men
Couldn't put Creimy Dumpty
Together again.
Creimy's siblings video and theme song, very realistic, especially the pants, just like Creimy's:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
With "Vice President Pence Vowing US Astronauts Will Return To the Moon", we are sure they will need miracle workers up there, here is what it would look like. Note that Creimy takes care of bringing a lot of food to the moon as depicted below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Creimy's real pictures:
Before the sex change:
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After the sex change:
https://ibb.co/gVad65
Creimy's "enterprise-level" chair, he talks about it all the time on slashdot:
http://www.keynamics.com/image...
Creimy's head, while his supervisor was talking to him, not with him, since it is impossible to do with Creimy:
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Coulda spent the money on a new Mac with the latest in RAM, bus design, and GPU, but noooooOOOOOOOoooooo...
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Would have been cheaper to buy the assets and hire the people after they go belly up. I’m surprise Shazam is still around.
goodbye shazam, we hardly knew you.
yet another product i'll stop using for its ties to apple.
Technology to decipher complex audio from background noise... that’s got to be worth a lot to a company with 1B mobile microphones riding around in pockets & purses.
I have been a Shazam user since it was a shortcode (2580) to call with your mobile phone and you got back an SMS message either identifying the song (and costing you) or saying sorry (for free). That was before app stores, and almost before phone apps, just after Shazam launched. A music- and technology-obsessed friend told me about it, and I thought it was one of the coolest things ever. I still think it's pretty cool.
I don't have a lot of confidence Apple won't ruin it. Will the Android app get any love now? Will there be links to buy the music from anyone except the iTunes store?
Shazam made a genuinely innovative idea that is useful for many people and it still is. Apple used to do that, now all their ideas are just marketing and they buy other companies to wither in Cupertino.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled"
this is an excellent purchase to have software intergrated into the os and allows awarness of the music fabric around the individual. Be nice to just go into the history and see a listing of the music detected about you. The meta data from the music listing would be an amazing resource for regional ratings and could even provide an insight into the individuals musical preferences and matched to purchase behavior could be correlated to playlists for stores that would increase the sales and would be highly valuable information. This could also be expanded into all media movies, television and commercials. In the end audio interpretation of conversation meta data and ambient noise (crosswalks, engine noise, police sirens, etc..)
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