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Shazam turns to image recognition

Geoff Riley

30th May 2015

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One of my favourite British tech businesses is the music recognition company Shazam. It now has over 100 million users and has become the first tech start-up in the UK to be valued at over $1 billion after a recent round of funding.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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