Shazam Entertainment has developed a breakthrough real-time song identification service for mobile phone users. The service is based on a patent-pending technology in audio pattern recognition. Shazam Entertainment´s technology is able to match a noisy audio sample captured on a mobile phone against a database of over a million tracks in less than one second. All we need is 15 seconds of sound. The search works even with background noise such as people talking or street noise, as long as the music is dominant.
Shazam offers its service to mobile operators, enabling them to drive premium service revenues with a killer music application.
Shazam's service works on any mobile phone without any upgrade to the handset or network.
Shazam Entertainment will also provide business-to-business services such as monitoring music and advertising on radio and television, ensuring that artists are paid royalties for public performances of their music.
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Venture Capital Investors include:
- IDG Ventures Europe
- Lynx New Media Ventures (Bear Stearns and Virgin Media Group)
- FLV Fund
Individual Investors include:
- Former Chairman of EMI Group
- Former Chairman of BMG UK/Ireland
- Founder of Amazon UK
- CTO of Sony Music (and co-founder of Liquid Audio)
- Former Chief Technologist for British Telecom
- Former UK Managing Director of Viant
- COO of United Business Media
- Inventor of 56k modem technology
Advisors include:
- Former Head of Programming at Capital Radio
- Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford
- Former VP New Media at EMI Recorded Music Worldwide
- Former UK Managing Director of Viant
- Head of Media Sector Equity Research at UBS Warburg
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