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ReadWriteWeb - Tue Dec 8, 7:10 pm ET
In a move of ninja swiftness, MySpace has acquired and subsequently shuttered iMeem in its entirety, even trashing the streaming/sharing music startup's API, which had heretofore supplied much-needed resources to a small but vibrant ecosystem of apps. The acquisition was announced just yesterday, and developers were given no warning that their creations would become useless digital paperweights ...
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socalTech.com - Tue Dec 8, 6:33 pm ET
Los Angeles-based MySpace said Tuesday that it has closed its acquisition of social media site imeem. The firm did not disclose any further financial details related to the acquisition. Owen Van Natta, the firm's CEO, said it would use the acquisition to bolster MySpace Music, and also said, effective today, that the firm would redirect Imeem's users to MySpace Music.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 8, 6:29 pm ET
MySpace on Tuesday announced that it has bought online music service imeem and is weaving it into the social networking community.
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Crain's New York Business - Tue Dec 8, 5:02 pm ET
News Corp.-owned MySpace.com purchased song streaming site imeem Tuesday.
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KGO-TV Bay Area - Tue Dec 8, 4:47 pm ET
MySpace's online music venture scooped up imeem's 16 million users and mobile phone applications for less than $1 million.
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MSNBC - Tue Dec 8, 4:18 pm ET
MySpace's online music venture with recording labels completed its purchase of song streaming site imeem, scooping up its 16 million users and mobile phone applications.
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KESQ Palm Springs - Tue Dec 8, 4:13 pm ET
Associated Press - December 8, 2009 4:04 PM ET LOS ANGELES (AP) - MySpace's online music venture with recording labels completed its purchase of song streaming site imeem on Tuesday, scooping...
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LAist - Tue Dec 8, 3:31 pm ET
White Arrows will be performing tonight at Spaceland | Picture via White Arrows' Myspace Our Pick: Parade of Lights' EP Release, Army Navy, Evan Voytas, White Arrows @ Spaceland Tonight famed Pixies front man Frank Black will be performing under his stage name Black Francis at the Echoplex for Winston Calling: A Rock and Comedy Benefit for Baby Winston Bertrand. Brooklyn-bred electro-infused ...
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Creative Loafing Tampa - Tue Dec 8, 3:28 pm ET
By Leilani Polk "New Roman Times...Sweet Florida sunshine...Soon!" reads the latest blog entry on the Austin-by-way-of-Orlando band New Roman Times' Myspace page. While the band has returned to Florida numerous times since they left for greener pastures nearly three years ago, this visit they arrive with a new album and the support of a new label, Tampa's own New Granada Records. The foursome's ...
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MacNN - Tue Dec 8, 3:12 pm ET
MySpace has quietly completed a buyout of music streaming service iMeem. Following a tentative deal two months ago, the large social network has reportedly bought up iMeem's assets for under $1 million. It's understood by TechCrunch that iMeem will be shut down and its users steered towards MySpace Music, which offers both free web streams and pay-per-download MP3s....
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WebProNews - Tue Dec 8, 3:01 pm ET
MySpace announced today that it has completed a deal to acquire "certain assets" of the popular social media music service imeem. imeem is now redirecting to MySpace Music. "MySpace Music and imeem share a common vision and commitment to further enabling the socialization of content across the Web," says MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta. "This deal will allow us to leverage imeem’s industry leading ...
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Newsday - Tue Dec 8, 2:43 pm ET
Google unveils 'real-time' search results with updates from Facebook, MySpace, Twitter
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TechCrunch - Tue Dec 8, 1:25 pm ET
MySpace Music has completed its acquisition of most of the assets of music service iMeem. We first broke the news that MySpace was close to acquiring iMeem last month. Two days later, we reported that an agreement was signed to purchase the assets of the company for $1 million in cash. The deal didn't close, however, because some of the assets MySpace Music was going to buy (namely, servers ...
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Search Engine Roundtable - Tue Dec 8, 8:59 am ET
Google announced a dozen things yesterday, but one of those announcements was on real time search in the search results. Google teamed up with Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, FriendFeed, Jaiku and Identi.ca to make these real time search results possible. In short, Google sticks another "universal result" in the search results when they feel a real time result makes sense. For example, a search for ...
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PC Magazine via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 8, 8:58 am ET
Several months after purchasing music discovery service iLike, MySpace has also snapped up streaming music site imeem. With Apple buying Lala, is there a land rush on for streaming music services?