Apple buys song identifying app Shazam

Apple is shopping Shazam, a renouned app that identifies song for users by listening to a brief dash of it.

Technology website Techcrunch initial reported on a probability of a partnership final week before Apple done it central in a matter Monday.

“We are anxious that Shazam and a gifted group will be fasten Apple,” the association pronounced in a statement. “Apple Music and Shazam are a healthy fit, pity a passion for song find and delivering good song practice to a users,” Apple’s statement said.

Privately-held Shazam has lifted some-more than $143 million US in several rounds of appropriation over a years, and it’s many new gratefulness came in during around $1 billion US — a cost tab that would make a association one biggest companies Apple has ever purchased. But reports advise a cost Apple will compensate is reduction than half of that.

Apple’s matter done no discuss of a squeeze price, or gave any denote about what it skeleton to do with chronicle of a app that duty on non-Apple products, such as Android smartphones.

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