San Francisco - Music-focused social network imeem on Wednesday released support for Google's (NASD: GOOG) OpenSocial on the imeem Media Platform, the site's third-party developer platform. With the addition, developers will now be able to port their existing social media applications created through OpenSocial to imeem, which counts over 24 million users.

San Francisco - Social music service imeem announced on Tuesday that it is now streaming actress and major label artist (Warner/Rhino/Atco) Scarlett Johansson's debut album of Tom Waits covers in its entirety, a week before its official release. San Francisco-based imeem also recently overtook Yahoo to become the top streaming music site, according to data from analytics firm Compete.

Los Angeles - Social music service imeem has surpassed Yahoo (NASD: YHOO) to become the top streaming music service, claiming 10.3 million unique visitors in March, Wired.com reported, citing data from analytics firm Compete.

San Francisco - Music-focused social network Imeem has raised an undisclosed sum of new funding from Sequoia Capital, Tech Confidential reported.

San Francisco - Imeem, a music-focused social network that claims 24 million unique monthly visitors, announced on Monday that it has acquired Snocap, the digital music registry and rights clearinghouse service co-founded by Napster creator Shawn Fanning, for an undisclosed sum. San Francisco-based Snocap's digital registry currently counts over 7 million songs, and over 110,000 unsigned and label-based artists are using Snocap MyStores to sell their music on MySpace and other sites.

San Francisco - Social media service imeem on Tuesday released the Imeem Media Platform, a set of tools that will give developers access to the service's library of music, videos and photos, as well as imeem's 24 million members. The API also provides access to a "chromeless" version of the imeem media player, playlist-creation tool and recommendation engine. San Francisco-based imeem was also one of the founding partners of Google's OpenSocial, and plans to offer support for the initiative in the coming months.

DMW’s CEO & Publisher provides a wrap-up of the top stories of the week. Who’s hot, who’s not and what’s the industry buzz?

I spent the past week at our Digital Music Forum in New York City with 500 senior industry insiders immersed in two days of high level discussions about the future of the music industry. I don’t often toot our own horn, but this was one heck of a great event.

DMW’s CEO & Publisher provides a wrap-up of the top stories of the week. Who’s hot, who’s not and what’s the industry buzz?

The week started with a bang on news that Yahoo Inc’s (NSDQ: YHOO) board rejected Microsoft Corp.’s (NSDQ: MSFT) unsolicited $44.6 billion offer for the company.

San Francisco - Music-focused social network Imeem has acquired Snocap, the digital music licensing company founded by Napster creator Shawn Fanning, according to TechCrunch, which added that the purchase price will likely not be disclosed.

San Francisco - Imeem, a social network focused on music that claims over 20 million unique monthly visitors, announced on Monday that it has acquired Anywhere.FM, a Web music player and Internet radio service.

Denver - Digital music distributor IODA has advised the independent record labels it represents not to sign streaming deals with free services like Imeem and Lala.com until it can negotiate more favorable royalty rates, Billboard reported.

New York - Major record label Universal Music Group announced on Monday that it has signed a licensing deal with the imeem social network, that will provide on-demand, interactive streaming of Universal's music and video catalog to imeem's 19 million users.

San Francisco - Online social network imeem on Wednesday announced a deal with Microcinema International, to offer full-length streaming versions from the company's library of art-focused film and video, and ambient media on imeem. The screening series includes films such as Luis Bunuel's "Un Chien Andalu," "The Call of Cthulhu," "Barnstormers 360" and Patrick Smith's "Liquid Tales."

San Francisco - Music-focused social network imeem said on Friday that it has partnered with Canada's Nettwerk Music Group, a privately owned record label and artist management company. Through the deal, Nettwerk's entire audio and video digital catalog is available for streaming on imeem, including artists such as Avril Lavigne, Barenaked Ladies, Dido, Sum 41 and Sarah McLachlan.

San Francisco - Music-focused online social network imeem announced on Monday that it has signed a licensing deal with major label EMI Music, which will give users free, on-demand access to EMI's music and videos. San Francisco-based imeem, which claims 18 million users, has also secured deals to offer content from major labels Warner Music and Sony BMG.

Los Angeles - Online social network imeem has secured deals with a number of record labels to allow users to embed their songs as the background for photo slideshows, Wired reported. The available catalog for the feature will initially number in the "hundreds" of songs, according to Steve Jang, imeem's vice president of marketing and business development.

New York - Major label Sony BMG has agreed to license its catalog to music-focused social network Imeem, Forbes.com reported, citing sources familiar with the situation. Warner Music signed a similar deal with the company in July, and sources at Universal Music and EMI told Forbes that they are in discussions with the company on potential partnerships. Under Warner's deal, the label shares in the ad revenue generated on Imeem, which claimed over 18 million active users as of August.

San Francisco - Imeem, a social network focused on music and other media, announced on Thursday that major label Warner Music Group has dismissed its copyright infringement claims against the company, and licensed its catalog of songs and music videos available for on-demand streaming in North America on the free, ad-supported service.

San Francisco - Social network imeem said on Tuesday that it partnered with independent movie studio Palm Pictures, which will make content including a full-length feature available on imeem. Among other offerings, Palm will make its film "The Method" available on imeem for a one-day screening on Friday, before its release in theaters.