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It's odd that they didn't try to purchase soundhound then. The company has more evolved tech, and also has voice recognition services beyond just music through

• threeseed 9y ago
  It's not just voice recognition. Shazam has an augmented reality based advertising platform.
• drusepth 9y ago
  If they bought soundhound for the tech to bake into their own service, they'd be competing with Shazam. If they bought Shazam for the tech to bake into their own service, soundhound would just exist as an alternative. Seems like an attempt to buy the "name brand" to get tech and inherently beat the competition at the same time. Note: I've never heard of soundhound though, so it might be popular in some places. Shazam is like the name-brand of music recognition though, to the extent of being a verb.
  • couchdive 9y ago
    thats what they did with the MOG turned BEATS music turned apple music in 8 months.