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Video-sharing Web site YouTube said on Wednesday that it has reached a deal with British licensing organizations that collect royalties on behalf of 50,000 composers, songwriters and publishers.

Video-sharing Web site YouTube has met with harsh criticism in Germany for hosting clips that incite racial hatred, according to a news report due to be broadcast on German public TV late on Monday.

News Corp's Internet social network, MySpace, and Viacom Inc's MTV will host discussions with candidates and Internet viewers.

Aniboom, an Internet home for animators to create and share original clips, is launching its own channel on video site YouTube with the aim of hatching the next animated blockbuster that could rival The Simpsons or South Park.

Comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, whose programs were once among the most viewed on YouTube, were requested by the video site to give testimony in legal proceedings as it fights a $1 billion lawsuit by Viacom Inc, according to court filings.

Google Inc. will introduce on Wednesday a new feature that lets users create personalized maps which plot the locations of everything from cheap gas locally to the latest earthquakes worldwide.

The next big thing in computing could be systems to save the world from drowning in a rapidly rising sea of data, the head of deep computing at IBM told Reuters in an interview.

Apple Inc.'s widely anticipated music- and video-playing iPhone will allow subscribers to wirelessly stream material from Google Inc.'s popular video-sharing site YouTube, Apple said on Wednesday.

Literally, it might be known as Voustube, Voitubo or Vocetubo, but the world's most popular video-sharing site introduced local-language sites in nine countries on Tuesday that will all just go by YouTube.

Top online video service YouTube will soon test a new video identification technology with two of the world's largest media companies, Time Warner Inc. and Walt Disney Co.

Media giants NBC Universal and News Corp. (NYSE: NWS) said on Thursday that they have partnered with leading Internet content providers to create an online video site that is poised to challenge the current video leader, YouTube.

With the demand for computing power exploding among the distributors of media rich Internet content, some analysts believe Sun (Nasdaq: SUNW) is poised for a rebound in demand following five years in the wilderness.

The founders of popular video sharing site YouTube received shares of Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) worth nearly $700 million in Google's all-stock $1.65 billion acquisition of YouTube, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing this week.

European mobile phone operator, Vodafone, announced a partnership with Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) YouTube video service today, allowing customers to access videos directly from their mobile phones.

Viacom (NYSE: VIA) informed YouTube on Friday that over 100,000 unauthorized clips on its web site – representing 1.2 billion video streams – must be removed immediately from its site.

News Corp. studio Twentieth Century Fox has subpoenaed Google Inc.'s (NASDAQ: GOOG) video site YouTube to request that it hand over data identifying a user who has uploaded episodes of the television shows '24' and 'The Simpsons,' according to the Wall Street Journal.

One of every 20 US web users in September visited an online social networking site with MySpace.com leading the way. The site received 82 percent of all social networking visitors, according to a new report released on Wednesday.

Websites featuring instant-messaging icons use to garner the most traffic from teems. Latest research, however, indicates that sites offering assistance for teens wishing to embellish their social networking profiles has become the number 1 site among teens.

On Monday, Google announced its acquisition of online video leader YouTube in a $1.65 billion stock deal, an amount unprecedented in Google's acquisition history. Despite the high price, however, experts believe the move strategically places the firm ahead of its rivals.

The world's largest online search firm announced today that it will buy the largest online video site for $1.65 billion in stock. Google will combine its advertising and data organizing expertise with Youtube's video sharing prowess and traffic.

The Wall Street Journal reported this Friday that search leader Google is in active talks to acquire online video site, YouTube, for $1.6 billion; a move some analyst believe is in Google's best interests.