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Month: October 2006
YouTube: a Google company
Well-known for it’s online advertising programs, Google has captured a web giant and added it to its collection. Announced today, after being reported last Friday, the search engine giant paid $1.65 billion for YouTube. While technically a part of Google, YouTube will remain largely independent with some autonomy. According to an article on CNNMoney.com, there […]
All eyes are on YouTube…
With the rumoured purchase of YouTube by Google for $1.6 billion last week, it turns out that if these reports were true, then that number is probably likely to increase after reports surfaced this morning of a content partnership between the broadband video provider and CBS. On the heels of YouTube’s previous arrangement with Warner […]
Entertaining yourself online…
Back in the day, when computer gamers wanted to entertain themselves, they turned on the computer, inserted a floppy disk (or soon to be 3.5″ floppy and eventually a CD-ROM) into their computer or simply played their video game console either with a friend or by themselves. The point being that regardless of how many […]
Google buys another powerhouse…
Just about an hour ago, the Wall Street Journal reported that search engine powerhouse Google, Inc. was in talks to purchase YouTube. After this purchase is complete, which may not be for a few days as it is still in its initial stages and is still purely rumour at this point, it could add a […]
E-mails in the public domain…
In the wake of the Rep. Foley scandal with the inappropriate contact with a congressional page, companies are definitely taking what they put into their e-mails more seriously. I just heard a newscaster on NBC4 in Washington D.C. mention that corporate companies are telling their employees to be careful what they put in e-mails – […]