Somerville, Mass. - The Echo Nest, a provider of music recommendation technology, on Thursday announced a partnership with U.K.-based online music store 7digital. The companies will provide application developers with The Echo Nest's music intelligence APIs based on 7digital's catalog, which offers 10 million songs for sale in 32 territories in Europe and North America. Developers will earn affiliate revenue from MP3s sold through their applications. read more

San Francisco - Streaming music service Pandora is now activating 100,000 new mobile users of its service daily, founder Tim Westergren said at a Samsung event for its television-based applications, VentureBeat reported. Pandora is available on 32 Samsung devices. read more

Berlin - Streaming music service Spotify on Thursday announced a partnership with Sonos, to make its service available on the company's wireless multi-room music system. Sonos customers in Finland, France, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and the U.K. -- the countries where Spotify is currently available -- will now be able to access Spotify's library of over 8 million streaming songs. read more

Los Angeles - Having failed to reach an agreement with Apple over access, Facebook blocked a link to Apple's (NASD: AAPL) new Ping music-focused social network that would let users automatically add Facebook friends to their Ping contacts, sources told All Things D. As TechCrunch and others reported, Facebook Connect was indeed connected with Ping for a brief while before and even after the service was officially launched yesterday.read more

Berlin - Korean electronics firm Samsung on Thursday introduced the Galaxy Tab, a new tablet computer that the company says is just as good as Apple's iPad. "Honestly, I don't see anything it that is weaker than the iPad," W.P. Wong, head of Samsung Mobile's product planning team, told reporters at the IFA trade show in Berlin.read more