WSJ: Google May Buy YouTube
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It's still in the discussion phase, but Google is negotiating with YouTube with an eye to acquiring the popular online video site, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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Google Inc.  said on  Monday the company is ready to help Web sites run video  advertisements, putting the Web search leader into competition  with television for the biggest chunk of ad spending.
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WSJ.com to become worth what you pay for it.
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Chad and Steve (and their investors) have to be glad they don&#8217;t own YouTube anymore. After failing to reach an agreement (apparently) with Viacom, YouTube said it will comply with the company&#8217;s request and pull the 100k videos. From the WSJ article: YouTube, a unit of Google Inc., said it will comply with the request. &#8220;It&#8217;s [...]
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Google Inc. , racing to  head off a media industry backlash over its video Web site  YouTube, will soon offer anti-piracy technologies to help all  copyright holders thwart unauthorized video sharing, its chief  executive said on Wednesday.
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Similarities between Googleâs acquisition of YouTube and Rupert Murdochâs bid for Dow Jones show why both deals make sense to them alone.
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Top online video service  YouTube will soon test a new video identification technology  with two of the world&#39;s largest media companies, Time Warner  Inc. and Walt Disney Co..
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A deal between Google Inc. and CBS Corp. that would let YouTube users watch clips from CBS shows such as "The Late Show with David Letterman," has unraveled, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
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Aug. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc.&#39;s share sale has put Wall Street on notice: The old way of doing business may be ending.
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Google Inc. is working with Dow Jones  & Co. Inc., Conde Nast, Sony BMG Music Entertainment and other  large content companies to syndicate their video content on  other Web sites, the New York Times reported on Monday.
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It is commonly believed that Google bought YouTube for $1.6 billion because the wildly popular video-sharing site represented a great way for the search giant to expand into video advertising.
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Early investors in YouTube, the popular video-sharing Web site, are  poised for a big payday after the company's recent $1.65 billion acquisition  by Google Inc.
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Internet search leader Google Inc.  is open to new acquisitions and remains hopeful it can close the $3.1 billion purchase of Web ad supplier DoubleClick by end-2007 despite a U.S. federal probe, its CEO said on Wednesday.
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Google added last Thursday a nice little video to their YouTube account without mentioning anything significant to their blogs as they usually do for announcements of new product features. Search Engine Roundtable noticed it on Friday and made a quick post, Lifehacker posted about it on Saturday.Â  The new feature is in my opinion significant and worth [...]
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Google Inc.  is working with  Dow Jones & Co. Inc. , Conde Nast, Sony BMG (6758.T)  Music Entertainment and other large content companies to  syndicate their video content on other Web sites, the New York  Times reported on Monday.
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(InfoWorld) - Google Inc. is in discussions to acquire YouTube Inc. for about US$1.6 billion, although the deal is far from done and the talks could collapse, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing an unnamed source familiar with the matter. Google's reported interest in YouTube would reflect a sense of urgency on the part of the search engine giant to improve its position in the red-hot online video market. Google entered the market in early 2005, at about the same time YouTube was founded. But so far the success has gone to the scrappy startup, not Google. In September, YouTube nabbed almost 46 percent of all U.S. visits to video Web sites, while the video section of News Corp.'s MySpace.comÂ came in second with 21.2 percent, according to Hitwise Pty. Ltd. Google Video came in third with 11 percent, followed by Microsoft Corp.'s MSN Video with 6.8 percent and Yahoo Inc.'s Yahoo Video with 5.6 percent. YouTube, in typical startup fashion, approached the market aggressively, opening up their service to anyone wanting to upload their videos, and quickly became a phenomenon. It embraced tagging and sharing features, creating the most popular online video community. Meanwhile, Google took a much more conservative approach, at first only featuring videos obtained through formal agreements with professional production houses. Consequently, users had to pay to view many of the videos in the catalogue. Months later, it added an upload feature for regular users, but closely policed submissions. It wasn't until recently that it opened wide the service's door and added tagging and sharing capabilities. Yahoo, Microsoft and AOL LLC are also playing catch-up to YouTube, whose model these large Internet companies are adopting. Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and AOL need a strong position in this market, due to the increasing popularity of online video. Collectively, traffic to the top 10 video Web sites increased 164 percent between February and May of this year, according to Hitwise. As traffic to online video sites increases, so does the interest of advertisers, who in turn generate most of the revenue for Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and AOL. For many years, online video remained an unfulfilled promise, hobbled by high broadband prices, inferior image quality and reluctance by TV networks and film companies to put their shows and movies on the Web. However, in the past 18 months, video on the Web has gained momentum, helped by a critical mass of users with broadband access, improved quality and a willingness by production companies to distribute their films and programs online. Neither Google nor YouTube immediately responded to requests for comment.
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By Sara Kehaulani Goo, Washington Post Staff Writer  In the few months since Google paid $1.65 billion to acquire YouTube, both companies have tried to come up with a formula to turn the hugely popular online video site into a moneymaking venture.  Turns out, it's not easy.