More evidence that YouTube as you know it is dead: YouTube and Universal Music Group (UMG) have announced an agreement that promises to remove videos from the site that use Universal music without authorization, and replace them with ad-supported content. Under the agreement, UMG will let YouTube users incorporate music from UMG‚Äôs recorded music catalog […]

Warner Music and Google have announced plans give Google users the ability to stream Warner’s extensive music video collection for free, through an ad-supported revenue sharing agreement, or to purchase videos online for download. The companies also plan to let bloggers and other site developers embed music videos into their sites and share in the […]

Google announced today that it has agreed to acquire YouTube for $1.65 billion in a stock-for-stock transaction. Following the acquisition, YouTube will operate independently “to preserve its successful brand and passionate community.” The acquisition is likely to lead to rapid changes at YouTube. Google’s announcement places emphasis on the legal distribution of professionally produced content. […]

Sony BMG Music Entertainment and Google today announced plans to make Sony music videos available for online streaming at no cost to users. They also announced plans to let Web publishers embed Sony music videos on their sites and share in advertising revenue. Starting this month, users can watch thousands of Sony music videos on […]

HitWise, a company that specializes in competitive Web intelligence, has charted the rise of YouTube against Google Video: YouTube’s market share, shown in red, surpassed Google Video, shown in light blue, around the first of the year. By last month, YouTube had a market share 4 times greater than Google Video. Google added a Video […]

GreedTube is a new video-sharing site that doesn’t look like it will be long for this world, unless it makes a few changes. It’s a very YouTube-like site, with a very YouTube-like name and a very YouTube-like logo that lets you post videos and share in the ad revenue.

Rumors of a Google acquisition of YouTube, which started at the TechCrunch technology blog, have run wild over the last few days. The Wall Street Journal followed the TechCrunch post by reporting that Google is in talks to buy the popular video-sharing site, citing the TechCrunch blog and a person familiar with the matter. Since […]

At the Podcasting and Portable Media Expo, held last weekend in Ontario, California, we had the opportunity to talk with Andrew Michael Baron and Joanne Colan of Rocketboom, right, before they headed out to LA for the evening. As you can tell from the photo, Baron and Colan looked exuberant to be at the Expo. […]

Persian businesswoman Anousheh Ansari, co-founder and Chairman of Prodea Systems and the first female space tourist, has been blogging and even vlogging about her experiences in space. Her posts range from the trivial to the profound. Some of the most interesting insights she’s provided have been descriptions of how space explorers do tasks we take […]

The University of California, Berkeley, announced today that it is delivering educational content, including course lectures and symposia, free of charge through Google Video. UC Berkeley will be the first university with its own page on the Google Video Web site, campus officials said. The campus is making more than 250 hours of content available […]