Tag archive: Imeem

Online social hub MySpace is in talks to acquire struggling free music streaming site imeem, two people familiar with the matter said Tuesday. The people spoke on condition of anonymity because talks are confidential. An announcement could be weeks away, and terms are still being negotiated, but MySpace is trying to revamp itself and its MySpace Music joint venture with the major recording companies. An acquisition could bolster the unit of News… Read More

Social media network imeem has announced it has acquired media distributor Snocap. imeem is a social networking service that enables users to interact with each other and express themselves with music, photos, and video, and discover new artists and new friends by way of shared interests and media. Snocap is best known for enabling artists to sell their music on any Web site—most significantly on social network MySpace—while… Read More

Universal Music Group has entered a deal with social networking site Imeem to enable free, on-demand streaming of music and videos from Universal Music artists. Although technical details of the streaming technology were not released, one thing was made abundantly clear: the music and video streams will be ad-supported. The move makes Imeem the first social networking site to offer music streaming from “The Big Four” major… Read More

If you can’t beat them, join them. That seems to be Warner Music Group’s most recent strategy in its battle with Imeem, a social networking site based on music. The record label announced on Thursday that it would be dropping its lawsuit against Imeem and instead seek a partnership with the company. The original lawsuit, which began back in May, alleged that Imeem was allowing users to post copyrighted content, helping… Read More