New York - Major record labels Sony (NYSE: SNE) and Warner Music (NYSE: WMG) have pulled their full-song streams from the website of social music application iLike, All Things D reports.

Seattle - Social music discovery service iLike announced on Monday a partnership with TuneCore, a digital music distribution service focused on independent artists. Under the deal, artists who sign up to distribute their music via TuneCore to services like iTunes, Rhapsody and Amazon MP3 will now also receive compensation whenever their songs are streamed on iLike.com. The agreement also covers iLike's syndication network, which includes streaming players for Facebook, Hi5, Orkut and Bebo.

San Francisco - Social music discovery service iLike on Wednesday announced the launch of a developer platform, which will allow third parties to integrate iLike interactive music features into their applications and websites. Launch partners include Google, Evite, Slide, Flixster, Six Apart/Typepad and dozens of Facebook application developers. The platform will allow, for instance, Blogger and TypePad bloggers to add iLike playlists to their blogs, and Evite users to include group-editable playists on their invitations.

Seattle - Social music discovery service iLike said on Monday that Thievery Corporation will promote its fifth independent studio album, "Radio Retaliation," through an exclusive streaming preview via its iLike application on the Facebook social network. In addition to the album, Seattle-based iLike, which claims 30 million registered users, will distribute a series of video messages from the band about the album, and provide links to pre-order Radio Retaliation at iTunes.

Seattle - Social music discovery service iLike announced on Monday that it has surpassed 30 million registered users, and said it signed a deal with RealNetworks (NASD: RNWK) to offer full-length song playback via that company's Rhapsody service.

Seattle - RealNetworks (NASD: RNWK) on Monday unveiled a "Music Without Limits" initiative, which includes the launch of a new DRM-free Rhapsody MP3 store and 100,000 album giveaway, full-song streaming and MP3 sales partnerships with iLike, MTV (NYSE: VIA) and Yahoo (NASD: YHOO), and an unlimited mobile subscription service deal with Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ). The Rhapsody MP3 catalog will include more than 5 million songs from all four major labels, available both for purchase and as full-song samples (25 songs per person per month) -- a feature not available at Apple's iTunes Store.

New York - Trent Reznor's Nine Inch Nails on Monday released yet another album of new material online for free, this time providing no paid options at all -- but rather a range of DRM-free download options for "The Slip." "Thank you for your continued and loyal support over the years -- this one's on me," reads a note on the Nine Inch Nails website.

Seattle - Warner Bros. Records (NYSE: WMG) recording artists R.E.M. will premiere their upcoming album, "Accelerate," exclusively on the iLike social music discovery service. iLike, which claims 23 million registered users, said the album will begin streaming from its site on March 24, six days before its North American release on April 1. The band will also offer an exclusive video message introducing and discussing the album through iLike.

Seattle - Social music discovery service iLike said on Wednesday that more than 200,000 musicians, including half of the top 500 acts in music, are using its service to manage their profiles on social networks including Facebook, hi5 and Bebo. Artists including Radiohead, Linkin Park, 50 Cent and Herbie Hancock use the iLike Universal Artist Dashboard to post songs, videos, tour dates and other information across the various social networks. iLike, which claims 23 million registered users for its own service, said its Artist Dashboard also soon support MySpace and Orkut, following the launch of Google's OpenSocial.

New York - Mobile entertainment distributor Thumbplay on Thursday announced a deal with iLike, a social music discovery application that claims 15 million users, that will place "Get ringtone" links on artist, album and song pages on iLike.com and the iLike Facebook application. Thumbplay claims a catalog of 75,000 pieces of mobile entertainment content.

Seattle - Social music discovery service iLike announced on Monday a promotional partnership with independent label Eleven Seven Music, whose artists will post original content such as music videos, tour diaries and video messages on iLike.com and iLike's Facebook application. Artists participating in the promotion include SIXX A.M., Drowning Pool and Motley Crue. iLike says that over 150,000 artists are using iLike to connect with the service's 15 million users.