{"id":21841,"date":"2017-12-09T06:53:29","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T04:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.radioislam.org.za\/wordpress\/2017\/12\/09\/apple-in-talks-to-acquire-shazam\/"},"modified":"2017-12-09T06:53:29","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T04:53:29","slug":"apple-in-talks-to-acquire-shazam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/apple-in-talks-to-acquire-shazam\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple in Talks to Acquire Shazam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News &#8211; 09-12-2017<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Apple is in talks to acquire Shazam Entertainment whose software helps users identify songs by pointing their phone at an audio source.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shazam\u2019s smartphone app is already tightly integrated with Apple\u2019s Siri digital assistant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Users of Apple\u2019s iPhone with the Shazam app installed can say: \u201cHey Siri, what\u2019s that song?\u201d and the app will identify it. But Shazam has other features, such as the ability to identify television shows, that do not yet work with Siri.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tech news website TechCrunch reports the talks earlier, writing that Apple could pay about $400 million for Shazam and that a deal could be signed as early as next week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shazam did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An acquisition of Shazam could help bolster Apple\u2019s music efforts by making it easier for users to find songs and add them to playlists in its Apple Music service.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As of mid-2017, Apple Music had 27 million subscribers, behind rival music streaming service Spotify\u2019s 60 million users.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FaizelPatel143\" rel=\"alternate\">Twitter: @FaizelPatel143<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News &#8211; 09-12-2017 Apple is in talks to acquire Shazam Entertainment whose software helps users identify songs by pointing their phone at an audio source. Shazam\u2019s smartphone app is already tightly integrated with Apple\u2019s Siri digital assistant. Users of Apple\u2019s iPhone with the Shazam app installed can say: \u201cHey Siri, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pc0QIf-5Gh","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-16 16:17:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}