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Google To Acquire YouTube for $1.65 Billion in Stock Combination Will Create New Opportunities for Users and Content Owners Everywhere — Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that it has agreed to acquire YouTube, the consumer media company for people to watch and share original videos through …
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Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:
I still think Google is crazy :) — Kudos to Youtube for getting them to say yes. My advice to you is to always protect your downside. Ignore all the scammers who want your money, and dont listen to all the tax scammers who want to save you money on taxes. Writing that check is painful, but its the right thing to do.
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Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:
Dot-Com Boom Echoed in Deal to Buy YouTube — A profitless Web site started by three 20-somethings after a late-night dinner party is sold for more than a billion dollars, instantly turning dozens of its employees into paper millionaires. It sounds like a tale from the late 1990's dot-com bubble, but it happened yesterday.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Is Fox a Factor in the Google/YouTube Deal? — Notably absent in the slew of content deals announced by YouTube today is any announcement of a Fox relationship. That's because there isn't one. — A source inside of Fox, which owns MySpace, tells us that they were surprised that Google …
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Google to Acquire YouTube for $1.65 Billion — Google announced this afternoon that it would buy YouTube, the popular video-sharing Web site, for stock that it valued at $1.65 billion. — Google beat out a number of other YouTube suitors, including Microsoft, Viacom, Yahoo and the News Corporation.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Goobed — This one is personal - now that the deal is done, I have to start working on losing 40 pounds. So if you are making plans to meet me for a drink - not going to happen. Given that how wrong I was on this one, you shouldn't really read any further.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:Recapping Coverage Of Google's Acquisition Of YouTube
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Akessler / Andy Kessler:Media 2.Uh-Oh: Intro
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:Google acquires YouTube for $1.65 billion
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Ed Burnette / Ed Burnette's Dev Connection:Google and YouTube: Pig in a poke?
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Jennifer Hakes / Google:
Google Signs Agreement with SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT to Give Users Access to Expansive Catalog of Music Videos — Ad-supported video models give users unparalleled access to SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT's content online and creates new monetization opportunities
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Jennifer Hakes / Google:
Google and Warner Music Group Announce Agreement to Offer Google Video Users WMG's Music Video Content — Ad-supported video model provides Warner Music Group with content monetization opportunities and unmatched distribution in the online world — Google developing technology to enable user-generated content
Mihai Parparita / Official Google Reader Blog:
We made it (a little bit) better — It's been a very exciting week since we did our big Reader update. It's good to see that people have been liking our work. At the same time, we know there's still lots to do, which is why we've been busy fixing bugs and tweaking things in response to user feedback.
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Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
A look at Firefox 2.0 RC2 — Changes in RC2 — The official release of Firefox 2.0 is right around the corner and the second release candidate (RC2) was made available last week. Release candidates provide insight into the features and functionality that will be available in the final release.
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Laurie A. Duncan / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
A masked Apple employee begins to blog — The Masked Blogger is an Apple employee who has decided to "join the conversation," while trying not to have the conversation turn to the inevitable topic of his employment being terminated by Apple. The blog in question was born out of a desire …
James Enck / EuroTelcoblog:
Ten things I hate about you — Last Wednesday the organizers of the Telco 2.0 event were kind enough to give me the opening presentation slot on day one, which was intended to set the scene for a lot of what was to follow. In the run-up to the event, I had thought long and hard about what sort …
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Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal:
U.N. Enlists Internet Star for Antipoverty Pitch — The Likes of Lonelygirl15 — Are Sought for Service Ads; — Risk of Using Web Producers — The United Nations is hoping a lonely girl can help it fight poverty. — The U.N. has enlisted the star of hugely popular Web video series LonelyGirl15 …
