Shazam, the company behind the popular music discovery service of the same name,has today announcedit has removed tagging limitations on music tracks, television shows and commercials for its iOS apps, effective today. With the company already helping to identify over 1 billion songs a year, driving over $100 million in music sales via its service, Shazam has decided it will ditch the limitations on its ad-supported free application, ensuring that customers that purchased its premium app – Shazam Encore – are still able to enjoy exclusive features such as LyricPlay, whilst receiving no advertisements....

PaidContentis reporting that music discovery service Shazam has partnered with popular streaming service Spotify to allow users to open up songs they have discovered in the Spotify smartphone app. The service, entitled “Play In Spotify”, will be available to both iPhone and Android users but will require premium subscriptions on both applications for the feature to work. Shazam offers a premium app called Shazam Encore which provides users with unlimited song lookups, whereas Spotify users must register at least a Premium account to be able to listen to music on-the-go....

After teaming up withSpotifyandRdio, Shazam is strengthening its music discovery service through a new integration with Deezer. If you’re using the app in the UK, Germany, Mexico or Brazil, you’ll soon be given the option to listen to your ‘Shazamed’ tracks instantly through Deezer’s music streaming service. It makes Shazam a far more useful tool, as it links the discovery service to another method of actually listening to your tracks....

At this spring’sTechStars‘ Demo Day in New York City, (full story here), CEO Reece Pacheco took the stage to present his company, Shelby.tv to a room of 750 attendees including hundreds of investors, press and big names in the tech industry. Yesterday, I caught up with Reece and his team to play withShelby.tvin the Tech Stars’ office. It wasn’t long before we were distracted by countless videos, oohing and aahing at its simple, easy-to-use features and generally just having a proper good time on the Internet (includingthe best thingI’ve seen on the Internet all day)....

We’ve coveredShelfLuvhere on TNW before, praising it as “gorgeous, instant Amazon search” for books. The ShelfLuv team has put its head down over the past several months to cook up a brand new version of the site with triple the features, turning the website from a neat search trick into a full-service destination for readers. With the rise of ebooks as an important market component of the world of words, digital destinations such as ShelfLuv have taken on a new role in the marketplace as potential sales portals of both mainstream, and indie titles....