venturebeat.com - 5/14/2009
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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 one of the record labels driving up costs for these ...
gigaom.com - 5/20/2009
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gigaom.com —
Social music site Blip.fm added YouTube videos to
its music feed today, allowing users to turn its...
“Twitter for music” service into a social video playlisting site. The free service, which allows users to listen to songs and share them ...
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Social MTV: Blip.fm Adds YouTube Videos [GigaOM]
download-streaming-video.com - 5/21/2009
techcrunch.com - 5/15/2009
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techcrunch.com —
In an honest blog post , music recommendation
and streaming service Blip.fm (which we likened to a...
Twitter for music when it launched almost exactly one year ago), CEO Jeff Yasuda has indicated that the startup is going through a rough phase right ...
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Trouble Ahead For Blip.fm?
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Warner Music Group’s $33 Million Investment In Imeem and Lala Written Off
Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews —
... Company recorded charges of $29 million, including $16 million to write-off its investment in imeem, inc. (“imeem”) and $11 million to write-down its investment in lala media, inc (“lala”) to its estimated fair value.
Imeem recently raised additional funding and is putting together an iPhone application. Imeem’s valuation was north of $200 million at one point but has fallen since. Warner invested $20 million in Lala and $15 million in Imeem.
[via VentureBeat] ...
Record Labels Continue 'Negotiating Through Lawsuit'
Techdirt —
... as part of the settlement. Of course, because iMeem had no choice but to cave in order to deal with the lawsuit, the terms of the deal were so onerous that iMeem nearly went out of business -- until Warner Music wrote off the investment and recently renegotiated. ...
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bits.blogs.nytimes.com 3/3/2009 — Imeem lets users play any song they want on their computers, but not on cellphones. Since there is no way--yet--to pirate music on a cellphone, it hopes to sell music on the go.
Imeem Company Profile
crunchbase.com 3/17/2009 — imeem is the world’s largest social music community. On imeem, people can stream unlimited music and videos for free, express themselves with music and video playlists, and find friends with similar tastes. To build playlists, people can legally ...
Troubles At Imeem, But Company Says No Shutdown Imminent
techcrunch.com 3/26/2009 — 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 the ...
Imeem Brings Streaming Music to Android and Google G1
mashable.com 10/24/2008 — With the first Android-powered handset, the Google G1 , expected to go on-sale this week, the race is on amongst developers to get applications built and gain a first mover advantage. Tonight, Imeem is unveiling their app, which brings the company’s ...
Imeem for Android G1: Plug Into Local Music
mashable.com 11/29/2008 — Imeem went mobile with its launch of an application for the Android -based T-Mobile G1 smartphone last month, and now the company has complemented the release with some special extras.
The most intriguing addition is location-based streaming, ...
Simplifying imeem
blog.imeem.com 6/26/2009 — UPDATED: We are delaying the removal of imeem’s photo storage features until Wednesday, July 15th. This will give imeem users extra time to transition those photos to other services. Read more here.
I want to let people in the imeem community know ...
Rumor: Imeem Laying Off Staff and Looking for an Exit
readwriteweb.com 10/22/2008 — 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 for a ...
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