“GooTube’s” Thank You Video
Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, cofounders of YouTube, recently put up a thank you video on their video clip powerhouse site.
This comes in light on the heels of their recent acquisition by Google for a reported 1.65 billion dollars.
Needless to say they are both as giddy as a couple of schoolgirls over their newfound wealth. [...]
Is Yahoo! now under the gun after losing YouTube?
It’s Google against Mark Cuban after all, in a rather unique twist on celebrity deathmatch. Well, it’s not that far gone yet, but yesterday afternoon’s announcement that Google would be purchasing #1 video-sharing site YouTube.com in an all-stock transaction was not entirely unexpected. Google will now be the largest provider of online video with its [...]
Google Buys YouTube for $1.65 Billion, Grabs Lead in Web Videos
Google Inc, the most-used Internet search engine, agreed to buy YouTube Inc. The purchase price is $1.65 billion, adding the largest video-sharing site on the Web and an audience that watches more than 100 million clips a day.
Founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen and their 65 employees will join the company, Google said today in [...]
YouTube strikes content deals
YouTube Inc struck deals with CBS and two major music labels Monday as the popular video-sharing Web site races to befriend content providers and avoid copyright-infringement lawsuits.
The separate agreements with CBS, Vivendi’s Universal Music Group and Sony BMG Music Entertainment come less than a month after YouTube reached a deal with Warner Music Group Corp. [...]
Google to Buy YouTube.com?
Friday brought reports that Google and YouTube were in talks about Google purchasing YouTube for around $1.6 billion. Reportedly, both companies said they do not discuss rumors and speculation and refused to comment, but many said it was an obvious meeting.
YouTube is based in California and it is widely used to upload videos for [...]
MySpace Takes On YouTube
Everybody knows: If you want to see video on the Web, you go to YouTube.
Except not everybody does: By at least one count, the upstart Web site trails old fogies like News Corp.’s (nyse: NWS – news – people ) MySpace and Yahoo! (nasdaq: YHOO – news – people ) in the number of video [...]
U.S. Uploads Anti-Drug Videos to YouTube
The White House is distributing government-produced, anti-drug videos on YouTube, the trendy Internet service that features clips of wacky, drug-induced behavior and step-by-step instructions for growing marijuana plants.
The decision to distribute public service announcements and other videos over YouTube represents the first concerted effort by the U.S. government to influence customers of the popular service, [...]
Soapbox: Microsoft’s “YouTube Killer”
Well Microsoft, as usual, continues on in its game of catch up with just about everybody around.
From its new Zune player, aka “iPod killer,” to the new Windows Live, aka “Google killer,” those deep pockets up in Redmond have taken reverse-engineering to a different level.
Now they have devised a new site called Soapbox, [...]
YouTube to Get Some Cash from Warner Music
YouTube, the hot-hot-hot video sharing site, may finally start making some money off of its phenomenal web traffic. Warner Music has agreed to distribute its songs and music videos via YouTube under an ad revenue sharing deal. Here’s the interesting but somewhat-vague part of the pact: Warner will license not only the videos and music [...]
Universal Music Warns YouTube
Universal Music chief Doug Morris launched a loud salvo at YouTube, warning the upstart Internet firm that it could come into the legal crosshairs of the world’s largest music company.
YouTube, the prolific swapper of videos online, consistently violates the music industry’s copyrights when it allows users to post videos, Morris said in a speech at [...]
