San Francisco - Music-focused social network Imeem on Monday announced the launch of a mobile advertising platform for Android, Google's (NASD: GOOG) mobile device operating system. The company said Kia Motors has signed on as the first brand advertiser to use the platform. Imeem also launched a new version of its music streaming and recommendation application for Android.

Palo Alto, Calif. - Project Playlist, a site that lets users build song playlists and share them across social media sites, has raised around $20 million in new financing, and named former Facebook executive Owen Van Natta as its new CEO, VentureBeat reported.

San Francisco - Social music service Imeem on Wednesday announced a worldwide licensing and marketing partnership with independent label groups Matador and Beggars Group, which will make their entire music and video catalogs available for free streaming on Imeem. Beggars and Matador will also feature Imeem's embeddable music and video playlists across its artists' websites. Imeem says it reaches over 100 million people a month through its website and network of music and video playlists embedded across the Web.

Los Angeles - Music-focused online social network Imeem is laying off 25% of its 80-person staff, and has hired the investment bank Montgomery and Co. to explore a possible sale of the company, PaidContent reports. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company confirmed layoffs for Silicon Alley Insider, but would not comment on the sale rumor.

Los Angeles - A number of social media services on Tuesday announced the release of applications designed for Android, the mobile phone operating system developed by Google, including social music service Imeem, music identification service Shazam, and the MySpace (NYSE: NWS) social network. Both Imeem and Shazam said their mobile music services will allow users to tag songs they hear for purchase via the Amazon MP3 store. The MySpace application for Android also integrates Shazam, meaning that MySpace Mobile users on Android-powered phones can hold them up to speakers and have the song being played identified automatically.

San Francisco - Social music network imeem has announced that it will offer streaming previews of the forthcoming reissues of Universal Music Group act U2's early albums "Boy," "October" and "War." The deluxe versions of the albums include "a wealth of b-sides, live tracks and rarities."

San Francisco - Music-focused social network imeem said on Friday that it has partnered with Capitol/EMI to let its users stream the entire two-disc, 30-song special edition of "Radiohead: The Best Of," as well as every music video from "Radiohead: The Best Of DVD" for free prior to their North American release on June 3. The site, which claims 24 million unique monthly users, said fans will also be able to create and share custom Radiohead music and video playlists to embed on blogs or other social network profiles.

San Francisco - JamBase, a provider of live music concert listings and ticketing information, said on Wednesday that imeem and Fuzz.com will carry its live show information. Culled from a mix of user-generated listings and information from booking agencies, venues and labels, the JamBase database includes 50,000 listings from 40,000 artists.