Shazam’s new Windows Phone app integrates with Xbox Music

Following its revamped iPad app last week, music and TV show discovery service Shazam rolled out a new Windows Phone 8 app today.

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.

Foursquare raises $41M as it doubles-down on search and ad ops

We've been saying this for a while now: Foursquare isn't about badges and mayorships anymore. You need only look at the company's latest round of funding for confirmation.

Content-recommendation app Trapit grows up, enters formidable world of publishing

Trapit launched its new publisher suite today, the startup's first business-to-business product that publishers and brands can use to create personalized, more engaging reading experiences.

The new, more amazing Foursquare is about the money — not the mayorships

Over the past year or so Foursquare has become the best local search app that you're probably not using. And that's all Foursquare's fault.

TastemakerX’s new game for music snobs nabs $1.25M to improve artist discovery

Gritting your teeth long enough to ask music snobs what they've been listening to usually provides much better results than most of social music discovery technologies.

3 billion check-ins let Foursquare highlight the most awesome places in the U.S.

Three billion tweets and tens of millions of tips ought to add up to something. In Foursquare's case, that means the "Best of" series, which highlights "the most awesome places in cities across the U.S."

StumbleUpon: 30% headcount reduction to ‘streamline, focus, execute’

Mike Mayzel, StumbleUpon's director of communications, said the layoffs were not the initial stages of a death spiral.

Google’s new Field Trip: Virtually augmenting the awesomeness of reality

Smartphones and apps sometimes separate us from the physical world even as we walk through it. But Google has created a virtual tool to help us appreciate the wonder of reality.

Human Demand launches transparent, real-time mobile ad platform for small app developers

With almost 740,000 active apps in the Apple ecosystem and similarly huge numbers in Google Play, how is a mobile app developer to stand out?

Twitter is the common dude’s RSS reader, new discovery tools show

It’s the worst-kept secret on the Internet today, but Twitter has just announced some new search and discovery tools for its microblogging service (they hate it when we call it that).

On the company blog today, we read that Twitter …

Twitter set to unveil revamped search and discovery features

Popular social network Twitter will unveil significant changes to search and discovery as soon as today, according to a tweet by engineering manager Pankaj Gupta.

“Search & discovery in @twitter set to change forever after tmrw,” Gupta wrote on Twitter …

Google morphs +1 into a recommendation engine for every website on the internet

A seemingly small change that Google quietly launched yesterday has the potential to transform +1 buttons from a simple I-like-this to a find-the-best-content-here experience … and generate more interaction with Google+.

You’ve seen Google +1 buttons all over the Internet. …

Flipora is the fastest-growing social surfing service you’ve never heard of (interview)

Never heard of Flipora? Join the club.

But you’re likely to hear more about this new service for discovering and sharing online content, as it’s growing by 150,000 users each week — and just today added significant new features to …

The limitations of social discovery

“Discovery” is a hot topic these days. The curse of a new buzzword is that it’s difficult to come to a shared mental model in the early stages. Instead of tackling that large problem, I’ll start with something simpler: defining …

Listen up! Exfm triples its user base following relaunch, raises fresh $1.5M

Back in October music discovery service Exfm attempted to transform itself from a browser extension to a full fledged web service. Apparently the kids like what they’re hearing, because the site has gone from around 75,000 active users to more …