Shazam updates its iPad app with auto-tagging and integration with Spotify & Rdio

Media discovery startup Shazam released a new version of its iPad app today that adds a ton of new features boosting your ability to identify music, TV shows, and advertising.

Shazam hires former Yahoo exec Rich Riley as CEO

Music and TV discovery/bookmarking service Shazam has hired former Yahoo executive Rich Riley as its new chief executive, the company announced today.

Nvidia’s graphics chips let Shazam identify your favorite song on the radio

GPU applications are spread across enterprise and consumer markets.

Shazam tops 250M users, tags most TV shows

Shazam has fine-tuned its song and media identification service to work with television programming on more than 160 channels, at all times.

How Shazam stayed on top by reinventing itself — twice

Naming that tune has been the name of Shazam’s game for more than decade. But should you confuse Shazam for a predictable, tired old company, you’re even more clueless than the perplexed person who can’t place a familiar track.

Founded …

Shazam hooks up with American Idol for live episode-tagging

Said in the voice of Ryan Seacrest: Pick up your phones, America.

“American Idol” viewers can now use their smartphones (and tablets) to nab extra content and show music courtesy of hit music and television-tagging application Shazam, which recently surpassed …

A web geek’s round-up for watching the Super Bowl

The NFL’s Super Bowl championship football game is routinely one of the most watched televised events of the year with over 100 million viewers. But increasingly, people don’t just want to watch the game, they want to interact with it. …

Shazam Player is the be-all, end-all music app for the lyrically challenged

There’s nothing more perplexing than figuring out the lyrics to an Elton John song — it’s a running joke on the Internet and in television shows and commercials — but a new iOS application from one of the most recognizable …

Broadcast media discovery app Shazam raises $32M from Kleiner Perkins and others

Music and broadcast media discovery app developer Shazam announced that it has raised $32 million in its most recent round of funding.

Shazam builds an application that gives iPhone and other mobile device owners a way to discover new content …