EU Clears Apple’s Purchase of Shazam

EU Clears Apple’s Purchase of Shazam
Customers walk past an Apple logo inside of an Apple store at Grand Central Station in New York on Aug. 1, 2018. (Reuters/Lucas Jackson).
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The European Union approved Apple’s planned acquisition of British music discovery app Shazam on Sept. 6. EU antitrust investigation showed it would not harm competition in the bloc.

The deal, announced in December last year, would help the iPhone maker better compete with Spotify, the industry leader in music streaming services. Shazam identifies songs when a smartphone is pointed at an audio source.