May 8 (Reuters) - Social media music company Smule has raised $54 million in a financing round led by Chinese technology giant Tencent Holdings Ltd, which it will use to fuel international growth, the ...

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iPhone app developers Smule are following up their best-selling I Am T-Pain app with another music-focused one, this time with TV show Glee. By Antony Bruno iPhone app developers Smule are following ...

Every day, users of Smule's Sing Karaoke sing 480,000 songs, and users of its Magic Piano play 1.2 million songs. And until now, all those songs have only been available to hear and interact with via ...

If you like singing karaoke with a whole gang of people, there’s now a special social network for you. San Francisco-based Smule is announcing today that it is adding group video for its Smule Sing!

Executives at Smule, the startup that turns mobile devices into musical instruments with apps like Ocarina and Magic Piano, say the company’s apps are about to get social in a big way. Sharing has ...

Smule, a San Francisco maker of musical apps, has generated a virtual symphony over the past few years, turning mobile phones into pianos, drums, guitars, ocarinas and even T-Pain rap-style vocals.

Some people think of Smule as a maker of novelty music apps like Ocarina, I Am T-Pain and Magic Piano – which respectively involve blowing a virtual ancient wind instrument; tapping out songs on a ...

(Reuters) — Social media music company Smule has raised $54 million in a financing round led by Chinese technology giant Tencent Holdings Ltd, which it will use to fuel international growth, the ...