According to an MSN Messenger Alert I just received, MSNBC is reporting that Google has indeed bought YouTube for US$1.65B in stock. More details as they come in.
UPDATE: Both TechCrunch and Mashable have confirmed the story at this time.
UPDATE 2: Google has issued a press release.
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It seems Mark Cuban has no love for video sharing website YouTube. According to this Reuters article, Cuban told a group of advertisers in New York that “anyone who buys YouTube is a moron.” Cuban, who sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo for several billion dollars back in the dot com era, feels that the potential for…
Well, according to this latest Google Trends report, it seems people make more searches for each season during that particular season. It seems kind of obvious, in retrospect… but it’s interesting to note that searches for “summer” begin much earlier than for any other season.
This is a follow up to my post: Google’s Flickr Killer. As I’ve already mentioned, a photo organizing and editing tool that runs on your computer (and not over the web) -such as Picasa- is an integral part of the equation. If I could upload straight from Picasa into Flickr, I would use my Flickr…
TubeMogul, the awesome online video traffic analysis tool, now (finally guys! 😉 ) offers embeddable charts, as well as a number of new social features. Here’s the latest month of YouTube data for NBC and CBS, showing NBC’s continuous lead over rival CBS. I’ve set the chart to show data from May 13 to Jun…