The Clearing House’s real-time payments offering, the RTP® network, continues to gather steam with financial institutions (FIs), FinTechs and their business customers in this week’s Payment Rail Innovation roundup. Plus, new concerns mount in Sweden over the rise of Central Bank Digital Currencies and their...
Wells River Savings Bank will gain access to the RTP® network built by The Clearing House (TCH) via SHAZAM, Inc., according to a Tuesday (Jan. 12) announcement from the Vermont-based financial institution (FI), which noted that Atlantic Community Bankers Bank (ACBB) will offer funding agent functions....
Twenty years ago, if the radio played a song you liked, you had to put your ear to the speaker and hope the DJ said the title and artist so you could go find their album at the store. Now, with technologies like SoundHound and...
When a company is as massive as any one of the Frightful Five, the bad news is it’s inevitable that some things will slip under the radar. Apple and Amazon learned that the hard way this week as partners called them out on fake apps...
May 11, 2018
Twenty years ago, if the radio played a song you liked, you had to put your ear to the speaker and hope the DJ said the title and artist so you could go find their album at the store. Now, with technologies like SoundHound and Shazam, consumers have gotten used to just plucking that information […]
January 12, 2021
Wells River Savings Bank will gain access to the RTP® network built by The Clearing House (TCH) via SHAZAM, Inc., according to a Tuesday (Jan. 12) announcement from the Vermont-based financial institution (FI), which noted that Atlantic Community Bankers Bank (ACBB) will offer funding agent functions. “Our customers need financial technology tools that align with their […]
December 11, 2017
Apple is looking to boost its music service subscriptions by acquiring Shazam for about $400 million. According to TechCrunch, media reports are saying that Apple is buying the music recognition app,...
July 02, 2015
The music identification app Shazam has “ears,” as it were; now, retailers are hoping it will get some eyes, too. Shazam Chief Product Officer Daniel Danker told CNBC that the company...
February 27, 2015
You hear a song on the radio and you want to know the name of it — you can use Shazam to find that out. Now you can do the...
