Mac|Life all RSS Feed (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
With all of the bleak economic news in today’s headlines, there is one hot industry that seems to be bucking the trend — Apple’s infamous iPhone App Store. The proof of this lies in a recent Wall Street Journal piece detailing a veritable mini-invasion of App Store developers into San Francisco’s Bay Area, even as other industries in the area are cutting back. Literally hundreds...
Pulse2 (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Last month Shazam was discovered to be raising a new round of funding from the iFund. And since then Shazam announced a new paid application that is available for download. The concept behind Shazam is covered by a patent owned by Digimarc according to Bruce Davis, Chairman and CEO of Digimarc. Digimarc has had [...]
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
textPlus , a text messaging app that's powered by GOGII , has just hit the App Store. textPlus lets any iPhone or iPod Touch send free text messages to any cell number by using in-app advertising to cover its costs. There is no limit on how many text messages you can send per month, it's just a matter of getting WiFi, 3G or an Edge connection. GOGII was one of the first companies that was funded by...
Moco News (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
iPhone gaming company ngmoco has acquired Miraphonic, developer of the popular social-mobile MMO Epic Pet Wars . Players create and train their pets, then battle each other over the iPhone, Facebook, as well as the Epic Pet Wars site. ngmoco CEO Neil Young tweeted the news ; financials weren’t disclosed ( via pocketgamer.biz ) Its ngmoco’s first acquisition, but the companies had already...
BounceFM (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
Music is a ridiculously difficult area to make money in. Everyone wants be a part of it — which means there are thousands of entrepreneurs eager to conquer the industry. There’s no rock unturned. But Shazam looks like one of those rare music-industry breakouts. It’s an application that lets you identify a song by holding your phone up a radio or other medium playing the song. You...
Moco News (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
Mobile app-developer Pelago is partnering with Collective Bias, the social media arm of The Mars Agency , to create a location-aware mobile marketing app that will combine friend recommendations with coupons and discounts. Pelago is backed by the Kleiner Perkins iFund; the new mobile marketing app will be integrated into its social networking platform, Whrrl . The as-yet-unnamed app will use Pelago’s...
Digital Media Wire (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
London - Shazam Entertainment, a provider of music recognition technology, announced on Wednesday that it raised an undisclosed sum of new funding from venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers' iFund. read more
Pulse2 (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Shazam started in 2002 as a mobile music discovery company. The company first gained an immense amount of popularity when launching an iPhone application. The Shazam application has been downloaded about 50 million times on the iPhone, Google Android, Symbian, BlackBerry, etc. Shazam has a database of over 8 million songs on [...]
VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Music is a ridiculously difficult area to make money in. No one can live without music, so everyone wants be a part of it — which means there are thousands of entrepreneurs eager to conquer the industry. There’s no rock unturned. But Shazam looks like one of those rare music-industry breakouts. Shazam is an application that lets you identify a song by holding your phone up a radio or other...
GigaOM (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Shazam , a popular mobile application that allows you to ask the phone, “what song is playing” by holding the phone to the source of that song has raised an undisclosed amount of capital from the iFund, a $100 million fund started by Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers. According to published reports Shazam had previously [...]
Moco News (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Shazam, the mobile app and call-in service that helps users name songs, is taking further funding from Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) and Amazon ( NSDQ: AMZN ) backer Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers , which is taking a stake, through its iFund, as it ramps up its paid app strategy. The company isn’t detailing the amount. Its initial investment f came at £11.5 million (now $18.3 million) from...
Pocket-lint (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
And secures iFund backing Shazam, the music discovery service, has revealed that more than 50 million people around the world have now used the Shazam service. This is an increase of 15 million users since February of this year, while Shazam is now available, across various platforms in over 150 countries. The Shazam iPhone app has been downloaded more than 10 million times via the App Store. It's...
Telecompaper (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
(Telecompaper) Mobile music discovery provider Shazam announced that more than 50 million people around the world have used the Shazam service, an increase of 15 million users since February of this year. Shazam also announced a strategic investment from Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers. The KPCB investment is being made from its iFund and will enable the company to continue to expand accessibility...
Bits (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Shazam, which Kleiner Perkins calls a model for iPhone businesses, will offer a subscription version and expand into areas beyond music.
TechSheep (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Claire Cain Miller / Bits: Shazam’s Newest Fan Is Kleiner Perkins’s iFund — For cellphone owners, Shazam has abolished the nagging question about which song is playing. Its cellphone application lets people simply hold the phone toward the source of the music to identify it. — It will soon be able to do a lot [...]
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