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The popular photo-social media application Snapchat is supposedly working with the e-commerce major Amazon with the aim to launch a feature that would allow the app’s camera to identify objects within the app and pull up information about them along with the e-commerce facts and listings from Amazon. This latest feature is expected to be termed as either "Visual Search" or "Camera Search". While using the feature, the app will help the users to point their cameras at a barcode, object or a source of music, long-press the camera button and get the related information. "It's hard to say how far along the feature is, its possible scale and scope, or when we might see it arrive, although it seems to be quite close to being ready for prime-time according to the information," the report stat...

Apple Inc is in talks to acquire Shazam Entertainment Ltd, whose software helps users identify songs by pointing their phone at an audio source, according to a person familiar with the situation. Shazam’s smartphone app is already tightly integrated with Apple’s Siri digital assistant. Users of Apple’s iPhone with the Shazam app installed can say: “Hey Siri, what’s that song?” and the app will identify it. But Shazam has other features, such as the ability to identify television shows, that do not yet work with Siri. Tech news website TechCrunch reported the talks earlier, writing that Apple could pay about $400 million for Shazam and that a deal could be signed as early as next week. Shazam did not respond to a request for comment. Privately-held, UK-based Shazam has raised $1...

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Apple In Talks To Acquire Music Identification App Shazam – Source