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| Jan 15, 2010 | MySpace Music Resurrects Imeem Playlists | Last month, MySpace finally completed its deal to acquire troubled music startup Imeem. Unfortunately for imeem fans, the bank shut the service down as soon as the deal was completed, redirecting them to a MySpace Music splash screen. MySpa... |
| Dec 8, 2009 | Updated: MySpace Music buys, crushes Imeem | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
In a display of anti-social behavior, News Corp.-... |
| Dec 8, 2009 | Updated: MySpace Music buys, crushes Imeem | In a display of anti-social behavior, News Corp.-owned MySpace Music bought its competitor Imeem today and tore it down. Imeem.com, imeem content embedded in other sites and the Imeem plug-in itself have all been, for lack of a better word,... |
| Dec 2, 2009 | MOG $5 Service Launches: Spotify Is Going Down | MOG‘s $5 all-you-can-eat streaming music subscription service has finally launched. Although we interviewed CEO David Hyman in mid October, the music industry has changed considerably in the last two months. Imeem sold to MySpace for a song... |
| Nov 17, 2009 | Future of Music Coalition’s Brian Zisk: The Do’s of Streaming Music | In 2008 the idea of another subscription-only music service was enough to get your knickers in a torrent. Sure Rhapsody was doing well, but they’d been around for forever and in 2008, freemium was the music model du jour. With a year to ref... |
| Nov 2, 2009 | Google's New Music Search Will Be Getting A Boost From Your Favorite Bands | Last week Google launched the Music Onebox — a special new search result that lets users stream songs in their entirety for free. The feature is being powered through partnerships with MySpace and Lala, who are providing the song streams, w... |
| Oct 29, 2009 | Google's new music search | A breakdown of the players, the product and the results
It's phenomenal how Google continues to innovate on search and create new products to make everyday online activities easier. It's next target for optimization: music search. The searc... |
| Oct 21, 2009 | 5 O’Clock Roundup: Status update fever, Ning’s gift currency, Google music service | Google to launch music service — It will be something like Google Finance for music, but with the addition of downloads. Reporter Brad Stone gathered an exceptionally insidery report for the New York Times:
“For example, if you search for G... |
| Oct 13, 2009 | Grooveshark Signs EMI Deal: Staring Down the Barrel of a Gun? | Gainesville-based music startup Grooveshark just signed a major label agreement with EMI Music and EMI Music Publishing. While the company is unwilling to disclose the exact terms of the deal, Grooveshark VP of Marketing Josh Bonnain expres... |
| Sep 30, 2009 | iMeem Wipes The Slate Clean With $6 million Funding | iMeem may go down in the history books as the little company that could. The service morphed from an instant-messaging centric social network into a widget service to a full on music streaming service (read an early post by us on iMeem here... |
| Sep 30, 2009 | TechStars Investor Day Hits a Home Run | With bleary eyes and bellies full of coffee, a roomful of investors, journalists and young entrepreneurs gathered this morning for the Bay Area TechStars Investor day. The Boulder and Boston-based startup incubator pulled out all the stops ... |
| Sep 30, 2009 | Imeem reboots without Sequoia in new $6M round | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
It’s been a year since Sequoia Capital’s “R.I.P. ... |
| Sep 30, 2009 | Imeem reboots without Sequoia in new $6M round | It’s been a year since Sequoia Capital’s “R.I.P. Good Times” presentation to the firm’s portfolio companies. One of Sequoia’s more high-profile startups at the time was Imeem, a site that claimed to be the first to allow free, legal music s... |
| Aug 27, 2009 | RightsFlow raises $1.5 million | Online music licensing startup expanding globally and building consumer site RightsFlow, a startup which offers licensing, accounting and royalty payment services for companies that sell or distribute music, has raised $1.5 million in fundi... |
| Aug 26, 2009 | RightsFlow raises $1.5M to help manage music licensing | RightsFlow, a company that manages licensing and payments for record labels, musicians, and online music services has raised $1.5 million in a first round of funding.
New York City-based RightsFlow says its technology helps companies and ar... |
| Aug 26, 2009 | RightsFlow raises $1.5M to help manage music licensing | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
RightsFlow, a company that manages licensing and ... |
| Aug 22, 2009 | Your Guide To Music On The Web – Part #1 | I’m a Web fanatic, I admit. But you probably already knew that… My work environment has been completely web based for years now. The same applies to my music. Like many people, I used to download music from Kazaa or eMule (Yeah, I know some... |
| Jul 20, 2009 | MySpace Gets Some Love From The Former Kings Of Grunge | Alright, I’ll admit upfront that I’m a little biased here. Pearl Jam was my favorite band growing up and retains a place in my heart. I like them so much, that they got me to visit the new social networking whipping boy, MySpace, today. Why... |
| Jul 3, 2009 | Singing A New Tune: The Imeem Music Store. | Does embattled music streaming site imeem think it can take on iTunes? For the most part, nearly every streaming song on the site has a download button which links to both iTunes and the Amazon MP3 store. But it is quietly testing its own m... |
| Jun 29, 2009 | If You're Taking Away Features From Users, Don't Tell Them It's For Their Own Benefit | Sometimes, I really wonder if companies think their users are stupid. There are times when they treat them that way. My favorite examples are when companies are taking away features or raising prices, and claiming (somehow) that it’s for th... |
| Jun 16, 2009 | With An iPhone And Android Strategy, Imeem Mobile Pushes Past A Million Users | Imeem has a great Android app. In fact, it’s still one of the few very good apps available on that platform as it continues to find its legs. It’s so good that we gave it a Crunchie this year. But as good as it is, it took the application c... |
| Jun 16, 2009 | Adobe AIR Zooms Past 200 Million Installs, And We Have Some Apps To Recommend | We’ll say it right off the bat: there’s a good chance you have a recent version of Adobe Reader installed on your computer, so that probably means you’ve also installed Adobe AIR, the company’s cross-platform runtime environment for RIAs, a... |
| Jun 15, 2009 | Live music: Imeem gets better licensing deal from Warner | Music startups have had trouble making money, partly because of high licensing fees they pay to record labels. But Imeem, a popular streaming music service had so many fees to pay that it was having trouble staying in business. Now, though,... |
| May 13, 2009 | Imeem About To Expand iPhone Music Storage By Way Of The Cloud | Easily my favorite app on the Android platform is Imeem. It’s simple, fast and powerful, allowing you to listen to a huge range of music for free. And now it’s coming to the iPhone, we’ve learned.
The Imeem app has already been submitted fo... |
| May 7, 2009 | Warner Music writes off $33M in music startups Imeem, Lala | When it comes to music startups of my generation, they have yet to bring in serious revenue. And to make matters worse, the ones that stream music have to pay record labels a hefty licensing fee. Major record label Warner Music Group may be... |
| May 6, 2009 | Against All Odds: Imeem Raises More Cash And Has A Bold New Music Plan | Insert your favorite cliche or idiom here: Imeem may have dodged a bullet. Or has risen from the ashes. They have nine lives. Or my favorite: they may have pulled a rabbit out of the deadpool.
The point is, they aren’t going to be closing d... |
| May 6, 2009 | Imeem gets some funding, looking for more | Music startup Imeem provides a great way to stream some of my favorite artists online, but the company has had trouble paying its bills. It’s raised more money to help it do so, I’ve confirmed with a source close to the company, following u... |
| Apr 20, 2009 | Dora Merges Three Hot Web Services: Pandora, Twitter and Bit.ly | Letting people know what music you are listening to has long been a staple of the web. The blogging platform LiveJournal has long had the “listening to” field, instant messaging clients like iChat and Google Talk added the ability to update... |
| Apr 14, 2009 | Goom Gets $16 Million To Litter Web Radio With Beyonce And DJs | One of the reasons that Internet music streaming services Pandora, imeem and Last.fm have been able to build large audiences is because they are run by people who have a passion for music. Or should I say, a passion for music beyond pop mus... |
| Apr 1, 2009 | April Fools: YouTube Flails, Amazon Cloud Computing In A Blimp, 3D Chrome Browsing, Google Masters A.I. | Wow. April Fools Is In full swing.
The Guardian goes all Twitter, ditching the printed version and the website. “Experts say any story can be told in 140 characters.”
Amazon launches a brand new cloud computing service called Floating Amazo... |
| Mar 27, 2009 | The Sorry State Of Music Startups | Online streaming music startups are in one very sorry place. On demand streaming rates range from .4 cents to 1 cent per stream – this is what the startups pay to the labels every time they play a song for a user. Add bandwidth and storage ... |
| Mar 26, 2009 | Music startup imeem making money, not dying unless the labels kill it | Sure, the music industry — including music startups — are having trouble coming up with significant online music business models, but recent rumors circulating about imeem‘s money problems appear to be exaggerated. The San Francisco company... |
| Mar 25, 2009 | Troubles At Imeem, But Company Says No Shutdown Imminent | Imeem, the free streaming music site backed by Sequoia Capital, Warner Music and other prominent investors, is rumored to be in serious trouble.
Music insiders are saying a shutdown of the company is imminent after a failed attempt to sell ... |
| Mar 4, 2009 | Ffffoundtape Painfully Helps Organize Online MP3s | New service ffffoundtape attempts to re-create the same positive sharing environment of its sister site Ffffound, but with music instead of pictures. Once bookmarked, songs can be bundled up into playlists that you can share with friends. R... |
| Jan 23, 2009 | Last.fm Takes On Imeem On Android | Music recommendation engine / social network Last.fm has launched an official, feature-rich application for the Android platform that enables users to stream radio stations (including personalized streaming radio), consult up-to-date concer... |
| Jan 10, 2009 | Facebook wins Crunchies 2008 'Best Overall' | Amid downturn, entrepreneurs recognized, and gathering sparks laughter
At the 2008 Crunchies award ceremony, held at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco Friday evening, Facebook won the "Best Overall" award. The Crunchies, hosted ... |
| Jan 10, 2009 | Congratulations To the Crunchies Winners; Facebook Takes Top Prize For Second Year | The second annual Crunchies are over, and 900 people are across the street at the after-party toasting the winners. For those of you who didn’t attend or see it live on Ustream, the nominees, winners and runners up for each category are bel... |
| Jan 9, 2009 | Winners of the 2008 Crunchies | Here are the winners of this year’s Crunchies, which honor the best tech companies from 2008. More than 170,000 people voted to select the nominees, and more than 350,000 people voted to select the winners. The awards were sponsored by Tech... |
| Jan 5, 2009 | Hype Machine Zeitgeist: Listen in Full to the 50 Most Blogged Albums of 2008, For Free | Music mashup site shows how User Experience is done.
MP3 blog aggregator Hype Machine launched a new microsite today called the Music Blog Zeitgeist. There you can listen, for free, to entire albums from the most blogged-about musicians of ... |
| Dec 26, 2008 | The Vultures Are Circling Project Playlist | Music streaming service Project Playlist has 40 million users if you believe their home page, or around 10 million if you go by Comscore unique monthly visitors. Either way, it’s a lot. They’ve got a hot new CEO, raised a big round of finan... |
| Dec 23, 2008 | Top 100 Products of 2008 | Over December we’ve published ten top 10 lists of the top products of 2008. We intend to open these lists up for public voting in 2009, to tap into the wisdom of the intelligent crowd that reads our site. But for now, you’ll have to make do... |
| Dec 22, 2008 | Bring New Life to Static Documents with Adam | Don’t you hate it when you click a link only to discover it wasn’t a web page, but a slow-loading PDF instead? Maybe it’s time for publishers to find something to do with those PDFs that makes them a lot more interesting and engaging for th... |
| Dec 19, 2008 | Warner, EMI, Universal force MySpace (and Facebook?) to remove Project Playlist | Major music labels, including Warner, EMI and Universal Music Group, have been in litigation against online music company Project Playlist since this spring. They accuse the startup of not honoring its pledge to keep copyright-infringing mu... |
| Nov 24, 2008 | Music service iLike may be for sale | iLike, the music startup that’s especially big on Facebook, is on the lookout for an acquirer, according to MediaMemo. “Nothing imminent, nor active discussions,” a source close to the company tells me in response. That’s not an outright no... |
| Nov 24, 2008 | Britney's Back: New Album "Circus" Debuts On imeem | Pop sensation-turned-tabloid punching bag Britney Spears is ready for her comeback. Britney has just released her new album Circus exclusively on imeem, where you can stream the album in its entirety for free (you’ll also be able to embed t... |
| Nov 17, 2008 | Sprout Mixer lets your fans build marketing widgets | Sprout, which offers an interface that companies can use to build interactive marketing widgets, is broadening its platform today with a new feature called the Sprout Mixer. The new feature lets client companies give their fans the chance t... |
| Nov 11, 2008 | Project Playlist hires Owen Van Natta and raises $20M, but for what? | Project Playlist, an interactive streaming music site and application provider on social networks, has raised nearly $20 million from the Pilot Group and brought on former Facebook executive Owen Van Natta as its new chief executive.
Van Na... |
| Nov 5, 2008 | LinkedIn lays off 10 percent of staff | Business networking site LinkedIn is joining the long list of companies that have announced cuts in the last few weeks — it has laid off 36 employees, or about 10 percent of its total staff.
Kay Luo, the Mountain View, Calif. company’s seni... |
| Oct 31, 2008 | Yoono Announces Support For IE, New Services | Yoono, the slick browser plugin that serves as both a social network aggregator and media hub, has announced its impending support for Internet Explorer which will be available on November 7th. In conjunction with the the new version, Yoono... |
| Oct 24, 2008 | Questions For The Digital Music Business and The Rise of Band Blogs | Looking back at the SanFran MusicTech Summit earlier this week, a few notable moments stand out that reflect on the state of the digital music business and how a new crop of startups may shape its future.
Perhaps the greatest challenges to ... |
| Oct 22, 2008 | Want to hear the free songs coming to Rock Band 2 on November 4th? We've got the streams | Anxious to hear the 20 new free songs Harmonix is planning to unleash come November 4th? So were we. Through the magic of the internets, we were able to track down streamable copies of 17 of the 20 songs.
The only downside? For most of the ... |
| Oct 22, 2008 | Rumor: Imeem Laying Off Staff and Looking for an Exit (Updated) | According to PaidContent, Imeem, one of our favorite streaming music services, is starting to feel the pressure of the economic downturn and is planning to lay off a quarter of its workforce. According to this report, Imeem is also looking ... |
| Oct 22, 2008 | Imeem Cuts Quarter of Staff, Might Be Looking for Buyer | We’ve confirmed PaidContent’s report from earlier today that music startup Imeem has laid off 20 employees, or 25% of its total staff.
PR representative Matt Graves gave a now-familiar explanation for the cuts:
Given the current economic cl... |
| Oct 22, 2008 | Imeem makes cuts, may be looking to sell | Streaming music company imeem has hired boutique investment bank Montgomery and Co. to help it sell, and it has laid off 25 percent of its 80 person staff, PaidContent is reporting. San Francisco-based imeem has confirmed that it has cut 20... |
| Oct 21, 2008 | MySpace for Android goes live but where's the music? | Android’s first handset, the G1, will be hitting the market tomorrow and with it comes a slew of useful and useless apps. One of those useless apps happens to be from MySpace. Being the first major social network to do so means nothing when... |
| Oct 20, 2008 | SearchMe Adds Music Search With Unlimited Streaming Via Imeem Widgets | Okay, this has to be the coolest hack of the week. Visual search engine SearchMe has just added a music search tab that brings back results with free, legal, unlimited full-song streams and cover art you can flip through. It’s CoverFlow on ... |
| Oct 20, 2008 | Three Hot G1 Android Apps Already Out | In June 2007, the world was eagerly awaiting a product that would turn mobile computing on its proverbial ear, the Apple iPhone. Comparisons between the days leading up to that launch and this week are inevitable, as we once again find ours... |
| Oct 20, 2008 | Imeem For Android Takes The Jukebox In The Sky And Puts It In Your Pocket | What good is an endless jukebox in the sky if you can only listen to it while you are sitting in front of your computer? Imeem answers that with what is certainly the best Android app I’ve seen (or heard) so far. It’s called imeem Mobile, a... |
| Oct 20, 2008 | Imeem launches music application for Android and the G1 phone | The imeem music-sharing service is launching its first mobile application today — for the new Android-powered G1 phone that is itself launching on the T-Mobile network this Wednesday. So there are all sorts of interesting “firsts” here. But... |
| Oct 8, 2008 | Mufin music recommendations: Half-baked or just right? | Online music recommendation engines are nothing new. Pandora is one of the most high profile, but services that do other things such as Last.fm, Imeem and now even iTunes, all offer this functionality in some capacity. Mufin hopes to stand ... |
| Oct 3, 2008 | Earthcomber Cries Patent Infringement Against Loopt | A scantly known startup out of Chicago called Earthcomber has filed a patent infringement suit against Loopt, a location-based social network.
The suit claims that Loopt has infringed an Earthcomber patent, filed in June 2003 and issued in ... |
| Oct 1, 2008 | Imeem Re-design: Less Clutter, More to Explore | Music-based social networking site Imeem has launched a re-design, which according to a blog post by founder/CEO Dalton Caldwell makes it “easier for you to discover and enjoy new music on imeem”. Imeem has been growing its market share ste... |
| Sep 26, 2008 | Forget Silicon Valley, how’s this for innovation: Man crosses British Channel on jet packs | Yves Rossy may sound like a nutcase, but his trip today across the British channel on a wing powered by four miniature jets was successful anyway. This is a little difficult to fathom, so there’s a picture, right, of “FusionMan” with his ca... |
| Sep 25, 2008 | Tied Down By Legal Issues, Muxtape Returns In Name Only | Today the story of Muxtape, the popular but shortlived music service that let users create virtual mixtapes, has finally come to light. In a lengthy blog post on the site’s homepage, founder Justin Ouellette details his legal wranglings wit... |
| Sep 24, 2008 | MySpace Music Launches Tonight and It Looks Very Cool | The long awaited MySpace Music service is launching tonight around 9pm PST. (It’s the old site at that link right now.) We just got off the phone with the company for a briefing and we liked what we saw. It’s going to be a very big deal.
Us... |
| Sep 24, 2008 | VentureBeat sponsors San Francisco MusicTech Summit | Those who follow our blog know that VentureBeat is serious about digital media. Everything from big moves by YouTube to rapidly growing gaming start-ups raising a fat round — we’re usually there to write it up. It should come as no surprise... |
| Sep 16, 2008 | iLike turns its streaming music service into a platform | ILike, the music company with popular applications on social networks including Facebook, Orkut and hi5, is making itself a platform — a trend among Silicon Valley web companies these days. Today, it will let other developers access its lib... |
| Sep 15, 2008 | New Tool Lets Indie Filmmakers Compete With Big Hollywood Studios | Having owned Xcreative, a web development company that specialized in websites and marketing for the movie industry, the founders of MeDeploy (Christian Taylor, Joelle Musante, and Abe Lettelleir) were very familiar with the film industry. ... |
| Sep 2, 2008 | We7 adds EMI Music tracks | We7 – the ad-supported music download service based in the UK backed by Eden Ventures and Spark Ventures – has signed a deal to add 400,000 tracks from EMI Music’s repertoire of artists, including, appropriately, We7 founder investor Peter ... |
| Aug 22, 2008 | Weekly Wrapup, 18-22 August 2008 | It’s the weekend, so time to review the week’s web tech news, reviews and analysis on ReadWriteWeb. On the product side we looked at the first reported Android phone, checked out the winners of the Firefox 3 Extensions contest, reviewed Mic... |
| Aug 20, 2008 | 10 Promising Web Platforms | In this post we review 10 promising developer platforms for the Web. We’re not talking about the obvious ones either, like Facebook, iPhone, OpenSocial or even Twitter. Those have been covered extensively already. The list below features so... |
| Aug 18, 2008 | What Would the Perfect Streaming Music Service Look Like? | Pandora‘s on the ropes, Imeem is taking off, Grooveshark relaunched today with recommendations and a long list of cool features, Blip.fm threatens to make Muxtape look like old news – the streaming music market online is expanding and contr... |
| Aug 16, 2008 | Weekly Wrapup, 11-15 August 2008 | It’s the weekend, so time to review the week’s web tech news, reviews and analysis on ReadWriteWeb. On the product side we looked at rising music social network Imeem, reported on Yahoo’s Fire Eagle project, checked in on the latest Web Off... |
| Aug 15, 2008 | Last.FM Needs More Than A Redesign To Catch Up To Imeem | Yesterday, CBS sent out a press release touting the success of Last.fm’s month-old redesign, citing a 20 percent increase in unique visitors and a 36 percent increase in total minutes between June and July. Despite a few bugs on the day of ... |
| Aug 11, 2008 | MOG Launches Ad Network, Rick Rubin Joins Board | Mog, a platform for music blogs with backing from Universal and Sony BMG, is launching an ad network dubbed MOG Music Network. In conjunction with the announcement, MOG is also adding experienced record producer Rick Rubin to its Board of D... |
| Aug 11, 2008 | MOG, platform for music blogs, launches vertical ad network | Today, MOG, a blogging platform and content aggregator for music-oriented blogs, is launching the MOG Music Network, a vertical ad network that targets music-oriented sites and blogs. The company has also added legendary producer Rick Rubin... |
| Aug 10, 2008 | Imeem Taking Off – Before MySpace Music Has Even Launched | Music-based social networking site Imeem is getting a lot of the right kind of press currently, based on strong traffic growth and key deals with record labels. We last wrote about Imeem in March, when they launched a developer platform tha... |
| Jul 28, 2008 | TrueAnthem raises $2 million to pollute music with pre-song ads | The concept of ad-supported music ranges from relatively sensible to outright dumb.
Last.fm’s recently announced “smart ads,” which respond dynamically to the beat of the music being played, are relatively sensible. In-music ads, which cons... |
| Jun 1, 2008 | Roundup: YouTube making money now? Managers leaving Bebo, and more | As YouTube grows, some estimate it’s making up to $200 million this year — The revenue number comes from a couple estimates reviewed by Erick Schonfeld at Techcrunch, where he looks at how the site’s increasing dominance (see comScore graph... |
| May 9, 2008 | Roundup: Tidbits on Jangl’s demise, Virgin considers Helio hookup, VCs looking overseas, and more | updated
The back-story on Jangl’s slow death — Yesterday, we reported on Jangl’s asset sale process. A tipster tells us that Seattle-based WhitePages had offered to buy Internet phone company Jangl for $20 million, but then kept the company... |
| May 9, 2008 | Is Pownce Developing A MP3 Player? | Daniel Burka, co-founder and head designer for Pownce, has generated some buzz by posting a screenshot teaser of an upcoming release (shown above).
From what we can see in the shot – a search box, an upload link, and parts of the words “Art... |
| Apr 29, 2008 | Record labels fund music discovery site MOG [Updated] | Updated
Some of the early music discovery startups, like Imeem, Pandora, Last.fm and iLike, now have many millions of people using their services every month. MOG, a standalone desktop music player and music fan site perhaps most similar to... |
| Apr 29, 2008 | Can Web Apps Get Too Drunk on Aggregation? | There’s a mind-numbing amount of conversations and transactions going on around the internet these days and quality aggregation of content is a very hot trend. When is more too much, though? Are some aggregation services shooting themselves... |
| Apr 29, 2008 | Record Labels Strategically Invest $2.8M in MOG | MOG has announced that it received a $2.8M strategic investment from Universal Music Group and The Angels’ Forum. We’ve also heard that Sony BMG was also part of the round, which means two major record labels have come together to invest in... |
| Mar 26, 2008 | Roundup: Motorola splits up, cable giants back WiMax venture, and more | Here’s the latest action (updated):
Struggling cell phone manufacturer Motorola announced it would split itself into two different companies. Under pressure from activist investor Carl Icahn, the company will divide itself into a cell phone... |
| Mar 25, 2008 | Imeem unveils its social networking API to Web services | Specializing in networking the creative sector -- including artists, musicians, filmmakers, photographers -- imeem opened its API today, allowing developers to take advantage of the site's media library, with OpenSocial support soon to be a... |
| Mar 25, 2008 | Roundup: MySpace in deals with labels, Tudou raises $53M, and more | MySpace nearing deals with music labels — Before long, MySpace may be offering streaming music and ad-supported downloads from Sony BMG and Warner Music Group, according to a report from the NY Post. A deal with the two music giants might c... |
| Mar 24, 2008 | Imeem Makes Its Own Platform Play For Music Apps. Who's OpenSocial? | For those of you who thought OpenSocial was going to make things easy for developers who want to create social networking apps once and deploy them everywhere, think again. More splintering is occurring. Tonight, rising music social network... |
| Mar 24, 2008 | Imeem Launches Developer Platform for Music Social Networking | Major social networking site
Imeem
launched
a developer platform
tonight that will enable read/write access to user information and more. Imeem is a site where users can upload music, create and listen to any uploads and blog about music al... |
| Mar 5, 2008 | If Facebook Music Really Launches, Will It Get Dissed By 50 Cent? | Rumors surfaced again yesterday on Billboard and today in other media outlets that Facebook is in talks with the record labels to launch a music service that will include either free ad-supported music streams or paid downloads. Talk of suc... |
| Feb 17, 2008 | Who Bought Rupture? | We knew something was up when Shawn Fanning’s startup Rupture, an unlaunched social network around gaming, delayed and delayed their launch. Well, it turns out, say multiple sources, that Rupture was able to do what Parakey pulled off in 20... |
| Feb 13, 2008 | Imeem to acquire flailing music company Snocap? | Imeem, a popular social network for music sharing, is acquiring music site Snocap, which lets bands set their own licensing terms for music downloads, according to TechCrunch.
No source was named, and the amount isn’t being disclosed.
Imeem... |
| Feb 13, 2008 | Imeem Acquires Snocap | Digital music wholesaler Snocap, long searching for a buyer, is being acquired by music streaming site Imeem. The price will likely not be disclosed.
Snocap was founded in 2002 by Napster creator Shawn Fanning, Jordan Mendelson and Ron Conw... |
| Jan 30, 2008 | Music remix | To say the music business is a bit volatile would be a gross understatement — at least looking at this past week. Just one week ago, I posted a comparison of 38 of the best sites for listening to music on the cheap. Since then, one company ... |
| Jan 28, 2008 | Monday deal fever: Fraud Sciences, Trolltech, E-Dialog, Anywhere.fm all acquired | A number of companies decided to compete with DEMO for media coverage today by announcing some rather large acquisitions:
Paypal ponied up $170 million for Fraud Sciences, which prevents online fraud;
Nokia paid $153 million for Trolltech, ... |
| Jan 28, 2008 | Imeem Gobbles Up A Young Startup, Anywhere.FM | After less than a year in operation, the team at Anywhere.FM reached an early payday today when veteran social music service Imeem gobbled them up for an undisclosed sum, most likely in a cash and stock mix. The iTunes-style web music playe... |
| Jan 23, 2008 | 38 free/cheap music sites — Welcome to the fray, Qbox! | Ever since Napster brought free MP3s mainstream — and subsequently garnered the wrath of the Recording Industry Association of America — the music industry has been reeling.
No single strategy for listening to music online has come to domin... |
| Dec 13, 2007 | Simplify Media extends to iPhone, gets funding | When we wrote about Simplify Media in July, we pointed out the company’s ability to tie together the libraries of iTunes users, allowing them to stream music to their friends or to themselves, when away from their home computer.
The Redwood... |
| Dec 9, 2007 | Imeem Pens a Deal with Universal Music. Now Has All the Majors. | Ad-supported music streaming is now officially legit. Music social network imeem has inked a deal with the fourth and final major label, Universal Music Group, to make its entire digital catalog available for free to imeem members. Music fr... |