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LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Shazam, the world's leading mobile discovery company, today announced that Spotify, the popular music service, will be integrated across the full range of Shazam's free and premium Apps for iPhone, iPod touch and Android.
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Audio-recognition app Shazam has 250 million users, of which 135 million say they use the app to pull up enhanced TV pages once a week.
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Over the past months, Shazam has been seeing triple-digit growth in the number of downloads of the iPad version of its app, particularly for use as a second-screen companion device while watching television.
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At first he pretended that it was his number-one hero, Shazam, who wanted to date them.
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And the company owns one of the coolest second screen apps in the business IntoNow, which connects you to a social conversation around TV shows by sound-scanning, ala Shazam, with your phone or iPad.
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With a quarter-billion users and big-time brands as partners, Shazam entered Social TV with a bang.
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IntoNow adds Shazam technology to the mix and logged 1 M check-ins the first month.
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Most recently, Shazam released 'Shazam Friends' for iOS and Android, a real-time feed of songs that Facebook friends have tagged, creating a continuously updating list for Shazamers to discover and share new music with others.
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There are one-quarter of a billion mobile devices in the world that have an active Shazam app on them right now.
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And to congratulate Shazam for addressing a ubiquitous need (what is that song?) by creating a complex-to-create, but easy-to-use technology.
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As a part of the announcement, Shazam is immediately launching Shazam LyricPlay, a new feature in the Encore premium App that allows Shazamers to view lyrics synchronized in real-time with the music they are listening to, wherever they are.
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