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Google Moves Closer to YouTube Deal — Mergers & Acquisitions, Google, YouTube — After marathon negotiations over the weekend, Google could announce a deal to buy YouTube.com, the popular video-sharing Web site, for about $1.6 billion as early as Monday afternoon, people involved in the talks said.
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Associated Press:
YouTube strikes content deals — NEW YORK (AP) — YouTube struck deals with CBS and two major music labels Monday as the popular video-sharing website races to befriend content providers and avoid copyright-infringement lawsuits. — The separate agreements with CBS, Vivendi's Universal Music Group …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Google, YouTube sign more separate deals; NYT says acquisition announcement could come tonight — Update: The NYTimes is now reporting that according to people involved in the talks, Google and YouTube will have separate board meetings today to approve a deal between them and could announce an acquisition after trading ends.
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Cynthia Brumfield / IP Democracy:
WSJ: Google, YouTube Deal Could Be Today — The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google's purchase of YouTube could be announced as early as today, after the market closes, although paradoxically the paper is quick to note that the deal still could fall apart.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Will GoogleTube Be Announced This Week? — The Google/YouTube acquisition rumors developed quickly over the last few days. After our initial post discussing the rumor, the WSJ (behind a paywall) and the NY Times quickly followed up with their own articles. Neither publication contacted me, and I have no idea who their sources are.
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:Google moves closer to YouTube deal
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Steve Gillmor / Steve Gillmor's GestureLab:
Mr. Mike goes to Washington — and gets reamed for his trouble. But he gets a good post out of it, and that's something. Something really good, in fact. Because most of this new Blogosphere 2.0 is just crap. Well designed, timely, Seth Godinesque, crapola. Even, or especially, this post.
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Mike / CrunchNotes:
I've Had A Long Weekend — I spent my weekend in Washington D.C. at the Online News Association Conference. Going was a pain - I had to fly my father in to watch my dog, and yet another weekend was spent away from home. But I wanted to go because the organizers said I'd be welcome …
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TechBlog, Screenwerk, robhyndman.com, Susan Mernit's Blog, Newsome.Org, Connecting the Dots, JD on EP and Life On the Wicked Stage
Thomas Hawk / Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection:Mike Arrington vs. The Mainstream Media
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Staci / paidContent.org:@ ONA: Making Noise, Yes. Sense? I have a lot left to write …
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Mike / Techdirt:
Will Spamhaus Get Shut Down Over Dispute? — from the not-good dept — Last month, we wrote about a judge awarding an $11 million judgment against anti-spam organization Spamhaus, after an accused spammer (in Spamhaus's database) sued the organization. Spamhaus lost, in part …
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Thomas Crampton / New York Times:
Their Crime: Playing iTunes on Devices Not Named iPod — Activists protested France's digital rights measures last May. They want to play music and video, no matter where it was bought, on any device. — International Herald Tribune — It took more than 10 minutes to persuade …
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Mike / Techdirt:
Lessons To Be Learned From Tower Records: When The Market Shifts, You Need To Shift With It — from the end-of-an-era dept — Two months ago, in noting that Tower Records had filed for bankruptcy for the second time in about two years, we wondered if it was the final word on the pure play music retailer.
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John Markoff / New York Times:
A Challenge for Exterminators — On a whiteboard in a windowless Microsoft conference room here, an elegant curve drawn by a software-testing engineer captures both five years of frustration and more recent progress. — The principle behind the curve — that 80 percent of the consequences come …
Eric Auchard / Reuters:
Web video search site Blinkx signs Microsoft pact — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - YouTube is a load of laughs. Finding something specific you want to watch is another matter. — (http://www.blinkx.tv) is emerging as the way consumers on a — On Monday, Blinkx will announce potentially …
Sid Yadav / rev2.org:
GreedTube Adds Revenue Model to YouTube — Since day one, YouTube has lived on a fully community-oriented model where there isn't any money involved at the user level. This is about to change with a new service called GreedTube, which seems to be an 'unofficial spinoff' of YouTube promising …
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Official Google Blog Gets Hacked After Message On Security — The Official Google Blog was hacked over the weekend, happening embarrassingly after Google had just posted about how seriously it takes security. It's also follows a pseudo-hack earlier this year, when someone else took …
Dean Takahashi / Mercury News:
Boom years are over for new chip makers, but experience and a good idea can go far — It's getting harder to start chip companies, but venture capitalists are still making bets on seasoned entrepreneurs in the industry that is the bedrock of Silicon Valley.
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Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Salesforce strives for the on demand Apex — Salesforce.com is taking another step in its quest to become a dominant platform for enterprise applications with the announcement of Apex, which opens up its multi-tenant, on demand infrastructure and an enhanced programming language to any developer.
