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YouTube hits a billion

Mar 21, 2013
YouTube announced that it’s reached a billion viewers per month, putting in the same league as its parent company Google and Facebook.

YouTube gets legit on the Billboard Hot 100

Feb 21, 2013
The site is a mecca for musical artists. Now their YouTube hits can send them to the top of the Billboard charts.

YouTube to pull back funding, and skin healing plastic

Nov 13, 2012
YouTube may slash funding to over half of its new channels and a plastic that repairs itself like skin heals itself, but faster.

TV's new after school special: YouTube

Nov 8, 2012
More than 120 million Americans watch videos on YouTube every month, and yet the streaming video site is struggling to monetize that audience. YouTube videos are short -- and, often, one-hit wonders.

Video controversy and YouTube's bottom line

Sep 12, 2012
The recent attacks on and killings of Americans in Libya over a YouTube video raises questions about the video site, freedom of speech and corporate ethics.

Comedy giant Walter Latham on why YouTube is the future

Aug 15, 2012
The comedy mogul who created "The Original Kings of Comedy" was recently one of four African Americans selected to partner with YouTube. He said his plan is to become the "better version of BET...but for the web."

Report: People don't retweet candidates on the economy

Aug 15, 2012
But they do retweet them on anything else. Social media research indicates that voters might be in the mood for a broader discussion.

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Google, Apple rivalry heats up over YouTube

Aug 7, 2012
Apple has announced that Google's YouTube Application won't be included in the next version of software for the iPhone and iPad. YouTube has been a core app since the iPhone debuted in 2007.

Cat videos find a place of homage: A film festival

Jul 11, 2012
Cat videos are much more than LOL clips that cubicle dwellers email to each other. In going viral, they're eating up companies' bandwidth.
The infamous "Charlie Schmidt's Keyboard Cat!" video on YouTube.
chuckieart / YouTube

A newer, tinier iPad is said to be on the way

Jul 6, 2012
Apple looks to compete with Microsoft's and Google's smaller tablet models. Also, Google builds a robot brain that becomes keen on cat videos, and women post unflattering pictures of each other on Facebook.