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In this file photo made Jan. 19, 2010, the entrance to Viacom’s headquarters is shown in New York. Viacom is appealing a court decision Friday, Dec. 3, 2010, that YouTube obeyed copyright laws even though the Internet video site used to show thousands of pirated clips. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file) (AP) — Viacom Inc. is [...]

The YouTube homepage appears on a screen in Washington in September 2010. YouTube said today that 35 hours of video are being uploaded to the video-sharing site every minute, up from 24 hours per minute in March 2010. YouTube said Thursday that 35 hours of video are being uploaded to the video-sharing site every minute, [...]

Out of all of Google’s acquisitions, the company’s acquisition of the maker of the Android mobile operating system was its “best deal ever,” a company executive said at an industry conference yesterday. Speaking at the Stanford Accel Symposium yesterday, David Lawee, Google vice president of corporate development, reportedly praised the 2005 buy of Android for [...]

I am not the kind of person who needs to read the help pages on Web sites–at least most of the time. But the same cannot be said for a lot of folks I know. In fact just this past weekend I was showing someone in their late-60s (who is quite smart, I might add) [...]

In the wake of Google’s censorship battles with China and other nations, the search giant has launched a new tool to reveal which governments are blocking its services or requesting information on its users. The company’s new Transparency Report breaks down the information into two sections. The Government Requests page offers an interactive map where [...]

Google’s dominance of the U.S. search engine landscape remains uncontested, though the leader has been shedding a smidgen of market share lately, according to ComScore. For the month of August, Google’s share dipped slightly to 65.4 percent from 65.8 percent in July, reported ComScore yesterday. The latest figure continued the company’s downward trend from 66.2 [...]

The YouTube homepage appears on a screen in Washington, DC on September 3. YouTube has begun offering glimpses into a day in life around the world. YouTube has begun offering glimpses into a day in life around the world. (c) 2010 AFP

The Internet homepage of the YouTube website. More than 30.3 billion videos were watched online in the United States in April, industry tracker comScore reported on Tuesday. More than 30.3 billion videos were watched online in the United States in April, industry tracker comScore reported on Tuesday. (c) 2010 AFP

A man searches the YouTube website. YouTube on Wednesday began allowing users to share “private” videos among an unlimited number of other people. YouTube on Wednesday began allowing users to share “private” videos among an unlimited number of other people. (c) 2010 AFP

YouTube is now offering a third level of privacy for users to implement on their videos, one that makes it easier to share clips privately without actually having to set the video to private. The new “unlisted” option lets anyone with a link to the video watch it, however it won’t show up in YouTube’s [...]