Myspace have acquired music streaming service Imeem for an undisclosed sum that industry experts estimate is a figure in the region of $8 million.

The service pioneered ad-based music streaming, but the $8 million sum will not go far towards covering the $30 million dollar investment the company initially received.

As a result, up to half of Imeem's workforce now faces unemployment.

The Imeem buyout follows Myspace's acquisition of iLike, another troubled music streaming website. Both iLike and Imeem could not support licensing costs from the major labels on ad-based revenue alone, despite Imeem receiving heavily subsidised licenses from all four majors.

Myspace itself has fallen on hard times, recently conceeding defeat in the social-networking race to Facebook. How it plans on incorporating Imeem and iLike into its Myspace Music service, which the company now claim is its main focus, could decide whether Myspace sinks or swims.

Via: CNet

If you want to get your kids web-aware at an early age, why not introduce them to the KidZui web browser?

KidZui are launching version 5.0 of their browser today, which is set to help parents and children share and discover new experiences through the Internet.

Children can send KidZui approved content to friends and parents with the browser's new "KidConnect" functions. KidZui have trawled the web to find over 2 million websites, games, photographs and videos suitable for children, jointly approved by parents and teachers who already use the service.

ZuiTube has also recently been launched, acting like a kid-friendly YouTube lite.

Parents will also be able to connect with one another through in-built Facebook support, as well as receive weekly emails reporting on their children's web habits.

For more information, visit http://www.kidzui.com/

Got a futuristic idea you need to share that's too barmy for the Dragons Den? Why not leave it on Intel's Tomorrow Mural?

Intel's Tomorrow Mural allows users to post their hopes and visions of the future onto an interactive digital wall, creating a collage of futuristic aspirations from around the globe. Users can upload images and leave comments, and search the mural by specifics such as theme, geographic location and popularity.

Intel want the mural to "encourage people to express their vision of the future in a positive, collaborative and creative way".

So far, space travel and robots dominate the mural. Think you can come up with something a little more creative? Add it to the Tomorrow Mural by clicking here.

You know you've really won over the hearts and minds of a nation when you get to star in your own web game. Either that or someone hates you that much to spend sleepless nights developing one that rips what's left of your flailing credibility to shreds.

Enter "Grimes Against Humanity", starring X-Factor hate magnets John and Edward.

Players must bounce "Jedward" to the top of the voting tables in a bid to win over the cruel destroyer of pop-worlds, Overlord Cowell (inexplicably portrayed by the Mousebreaker-developed game as German).

Click here to try it out.

Our friends over at Shiny Shiny have just launched a brand new look for the website!

Click here to check it out.

TV Scoop and Shiny Style have been under the web surgeon's knife too, looking better than ever.

Let us know what you think of the makeovers in the comments section below.

After 5 months of testing, Microsoft's Bing search engine is shedding it's beta skin and officially launching.

Bing features:

• A localised UK homepage, featuring hotspot-snippets of information on a daily theme.
• Visual Search, which images and meta data to search without having to type in keywords
• Instant Answers, which gives answers quickly to specific queries
• Twitter feed searching, pulling up Tweets in Bing searches in real-time
• Integrated shopping with Ciao UK
• Bing Maps, designed based on data collected from Multi map users

It's a feature-rich site which could prove popular with those tired of Google's stripped back approach to web-searching.

Check out Bing UK here.

Celebrating 40 years of children's TV gold this year, Sesame Street is honoured today by a special Google homepage.

Depending on where in the world you live, the Google log will have a different Sesame Street character decorating it. UK users currently have the Cookie Monster gobbling up a cookie-dough Google logo.

An "edutainment" family favourite, Sesame Street spawned countless movies and spin-offs, and regularly featured all-star guest appearances.

Check the Google special here.

Tech Digest challenge you to check out the Pointer Sister's Pinball Number Count song from the show and not have it stuck in your head all day!