The Daily Populous

Saturday December 9th, 2017 morning edition

image for Sources: Apple is acquiring music recognition app Shazam

As Spotify continues to inch towards a public listing, Apple is making a move of its own to step up its game in music services.

One source describes the deal as in the nine figures; another puts it at around £300 million ($401 million).

In all, Shazam has raised $143.5 million from investors that include Kleiner Perkins, London’s DN Capital, IVP and strategic investors Sony Music, Universal Music and Access Industries (which owns Warner Music).

Its augmented reality brand marketing service lets you discover content based on pictures that you snap with the app.

“You came for music, stay to experience McDonald’s Karaoke, MTN Dew VR Racing and much more,” is the company’s pitch on this feature.

It also integrates with other apps like Snapchat and Apple’s Siri, and it currently sends lots of traffic to other music apps like Spotify and Apple Music, which pays it when those clicks convert to purchases.

Apple has made dozens of other acquisitions, and one of the biggest has been in the area of music: it acquired Beats for $3 billion in 2014, which became the basis for Apple Music. »

Anheuser-Busch orders 40 Tesla trucks

Authored by money.cnn.com

"This investment in Tesla semi-trucks helps us achieve these goals while improving road safety and lowering our environmental impact.".

A number of other companies have placed orders for the truck, which Tesla says will be available in 2019.

Walmart (WMT), for instance, has confirmed an order for 15 and the trucking company J.B. Hunt said it had ordered "multiple" trucks. »

Effect of canola oil consumption on memory, synapse and neuropathology in the triple transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease

Authored by nature.com

Increasing evidence has been accumulated showing that nutritional factors can influence diverse aspects of general health by modulating specific biological systems19.

For this reason, in recent years these countries have been looking for potential alternative to the olive oil.

Overall our findings do not provide support to some of the current ideas suggesting healthy benefits deriving from the regular consumption of canola oil. »

TIL Black Sabbath's debut album in 1970 began with the sound of rain and a distant church bell. 43 years later, in 2013, their final album ended with the sound of rain and a distant church bell.

Authored by pastemagazine.com

Producer Rick Rubin—as he’s done with many artists with varying degrees of success—took it upon himself to help resurrect Sabbath’s classic sound.

In this case he had the members of Sabbath focus on their debut album—the template for four decades of metal.

But 43 years after the release of that monumental first record, I believe Black Sabbath is very much alive. »