Shazam Entertainment Ltd. Overview
1.1.1 Company Overview
Company Headquarter: U.S.
Founded: 1976
Company Working: Shazam Entertainment Limited provides an application for connecting artists and fans through music discovery. The company offers its services as Shazam, a mobile application for iOS, Android, and Windows phones that enables people to discover, explore, and share their favorite music and videos. It also provides application for macOS and Windows PC platforms. Shazam Entertainment Limited has a strategic alliance with iHeartMedia, Cumulus, Entercom, Cox, and Sun Broadcast Group. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It has additional offices in New York, New York; Redwood City, Los Angeles, and San Diego, California; Chicago, Illinois; and North Sydney, Australia.
SHAZAM is one of the last remaining member-owned and controlled electronic funds transfer (EFT) networks and processors in the industry. SHAZAM provides innovative EFT services to community financial institutions throughout the United States. The company also specializes in Debit card, core, fraud, ATM, merchant, marketing, training, risk, and automated clearing house (ACH). The company provides a mobile app that can listen to any music, TV shows, and advertisements playing and identifying it through the use of ACR. The company was bought recently by Apple Inc. in their bid to strengthen their position in the music industry, after their acquisition of Beats Audio.
