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Slangy Italian teenagers become YouTube hit

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Two teenagers from the suburbs of Rome have become Italy's newest media heroines after their slang-filled account of a day at the beach shot from a minor item on the local news to become a YouTube sensation.
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Will video sites stop filtering content?

LOS ANGELES - One question that needs to be asked a day after Google's landmark win over Viacom in the YouTube copyright-infringement case is whether Google could have gotten away with doing less about protected content on its video-sharing platform.
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YouTube, now with instant vuvuzela sound

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters Life!) - Want to hear what your favorite pop star or politician sounds like accompanied by the most memorable sound of the soccer World Cup in South Africa -- the droning vuvuzela trumpet?
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Google and YouTube defeat Viacom in copyright lawsuit

Google Inc won a landmark victory over media companies as a Manhattan federal judge threw out Viacom Inc's $1 billion lawsuit accusing the Internet company of allowing copyrighted videos on its YouTube service without permission.
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OSCE calls on Turkey to stop blocking YouTube

Europe's main human rights and security body told Turkey on Tuesday to stop blocking Google's video-sharing website YouTube and thousands of other sites banned under its internet law.
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Pakistan court lifts Facebook ban, restrictions remain

A Pakistani court on Monday lifted a ban on social networking website Facebook which had carried a competition to draw the Prophet Mohammad, but access to any blasphemous material will remain blocked, a lawyer said.
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Google, Yahoo countersue Xerox on search patents

Google Inc, its YouTube video service, and Yahoo Inc on Thursday filed counterclaims against Xerox Corp in a lawsuit accusing them of infringing the document management company's patents on Internet searches.
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Carl Icahn unwinding Blockbuster stake

The billionaire investor Carl Icahn has slashed his ownership stake in Blockbuster Inc's Class A shares to below 5 percent, two weeks after the video rental company said it might seek bankruptcy protection and that its survival was in question.
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Google slams Viacom for secret YouTube uploads

Google Inc accused Viacom Inc of secretly uploading its videos to YouTube even as the media conglomerate publicly denounced the online video site for copyright infringement, according to court documents made public on Thursday.
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Google calls Italy ruling 'threat to web'

Google said on Wednesday that a ruling against its top Italian executives attacks the principles of freedom of the Internet and poses a serious threat to the web.
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Movie Gallery files bankruptcy, to shut 805 stores

Movie Gallery Inc, the operator of the Hollywood Video rental chain, plans to close 805 poorly performing U.S. stores after falling sales and mounting losses led to its second bankruptcy in three years.
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Obama's YouTube interview(video+text)

President Barack Obama participated in a YouTube interview at 1:45 p.m. on Monday to answer questions submitted by YouTube users during and after the State of the Union.

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