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US: Apple finalizes Shazam buy

By  |  September 24, 2018

Apple has confirmed its acquisition of Shazam is now complete, nine months after it was first announced. “Apple and Shazam have a long history together. Shazam was one of the first apps available when we launched the App Store and has become a favorite app for music fans everywhere,” said Oliver Schusser, Apple’s vice president of Apple Music, in a statement. “With a shared love of music and innovation, we are thrilled to bring our teams together to provide users even more great ways to discover, experience and enjoy music.”

Shazam is one of Apple’s biggest acquisitions—both in music and overall—and underscores the amount of investment that the iPhone maker is willing to put into expanding its role as a force not just in hardware, but in the services that run on that hardware.

The deal comes three weeks after the EU finally gave a green light to the deal after Apple first made its intention to buy it public.

Full Content: Tech Crunch, Apple

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