Apple Said to Be Acquiring Shazam, the Song Identifying App<br />A decade ago, Apple’s iPhone helped make a music-tech star out of Shazam, the app that,<br />almost like magic, could identify a song just by hearing a few seconds of it.<br />Shazam’s technology was introduced in 2002 as a dial-up service<br />that would listen to a song for 30 seconds and send its user a text message identifying it.<br />The price was not known, but was expected to be far less than the $1 billion that Shazam was valued at in its most recent fund-raising round in 2015.<br />The tech giant is close to to acquiring Shazam, according to a person with knowledge of the deal who was not authorized to discuss it.
