Twelve years after it was first founded, one of our most successful digital media startups is still making a loss.

One more step for Shazam to make itself a more useful service—and another step in Facebook’s ambition to become your central hub for media consumption. The music-identifying service, which lets a user find a song based on a hummed or actual snippet that they pick up with their mobile handsets,…

Here’s a no-brainer that many users will be thankful for - and which could mean another small increment of business for both sides… Shazam is adding a “Play In Spotify” feature to its mobile music identification app, letting users click to play identified songs by automatically opening their Spotify app.

A milestone reached by mobile music discovery service Shazam: the company says it has come good on its promise and reached 100,000 users, picking up 25 million in the last six months alone.

One by one, the mobile song identifier just keeps hitting its targets - now it ranks as one of the most successful mobile content companies out there, and is thought likely to attempt a public offering at the end of 2010 or early 2011. Shazam CEO Andrew Fisher last year…

The increasingly popular mobile music app Shazam is further distancing its new paid-for apps from the free version that made its name… It’s introducing new features - tour information for tagged artists and starting Last.fm internet radio stations from those artists’ music - that will only be available in the…

iPhone app piracy may have cost Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) an estimated $450 million (really?) - but mobile pirates may also provide app developers with a rich new income stream, according to a fascinating insight from the stage at the Midem music conference in Cannes… Rhythm game Tap Tap Revenge saw…

Shazam, the now hot mobile music identification app on iPhone, is being sued by Digimarc (NSDQ: DMRC), for patent infringement. It says Shazam’s music ID tech infringes three of Digimarc’s patents, including two patents dating back to 1995. Digimarc’s patents relate to technology that “enables devices to identify audio and…

Music recognition service Shazam is amongst those bringing out an Android app, in time for the G1’s release. It was already on iPhone’s App Store, claiming 1.5 million downloads; now it’s also coming out on Google’s new platform. Shazam lets users identify unknown music by holding their handset up to…

Shazam announced today that it has struck a deal with Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) Germany in which the operator will include its mobile music discovery application on its Vodafone Live! portal. Customers will be able to download the application called MusicFinder with Shazam and have unlimited use of the service for…

Shazam Entertainment has signed a distribution deal with Samsung Electronics that will see the mobile music discovery application embedded into the handset makers’ Beatb (model: M3510) and the Beats (model: M3200) music phones. T-Mobile UK will be the first operator to offer the phones with Shazam’s application integrated directly into…