Shazam nabs a new CTO to help it break into augmented reality

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Shazam is best known as a music-identifying app, but the privately-held company also wants to break into some of the most exciting fields in tech, such as augmented reality. He joined Shazam as CTO last month after stints at Google and Yieldify, according to his LinkedIn profile. Sharp holds a Ph.D. from Cambridge University, where he did work on ubiquitous computing, or some of the same AR concepts that Shazam has recently been exploring. “Internally, we’ve shown we can predict what’s going to be in the top 40,” based on Shazam data, he said. Shazam has three main engineering offices, one in London, one in Redwood City, California, and one in San Diego, which is close to key partners like Snapchat.

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