Saying YES to $1.65 Billion

YouTube said YES to Google. No surprises there. Sequoia strikes again. Mike Moritz plays a perfect game. Again. Moritz leveraged Google with Yahoo, and now he has leveraged YouTube with Google. This time, faster. All the nuances were thought through. Just in case the SEC raises concerns, notice, Moritz is not on the YouTube Board.

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Comcast Acquires YouTube?

There are a number of articles on YouTube today: TechCrunch, GigaOm, PaidContent, along with a comparison from LightReading on video sharing sites. The business model question on YouTube continues to come up, people assuming that they will eventually monetize the eyeballs. YouTube could also become the empowering engine for VideoSharing for various sites like TimeWarner,

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Destiny of Facebook and YouTube

Viacom buys Atom, adding this to their other recent purchases, XFIRE, Y2M, GameTrailers.com, IFILM and Neopets, placing them all under MTV Networks. Atom has very interesting short films and gaming properties, but none of the sizzle and growth rate of YouTube, for example. The one thing still missing from their portfolio is a MySpace-like social

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YouTube: Tango Review

YouTube: 97% Crap?