Notes on the Google-YouTube Deal

Most of the discussion about Google's acquisition of Youtube.com has focused on two issues: first, whether Google overspent or underspent on the popular video-sharing site, and whether the acquisition was a wise one, given possible copyright liabilities Google may now be exposing itself to, given the free-wheeling and seldom policed nature of Youtube's user-generated videos.

Google Nabs Yahoo CTO

Yahoo can't be happy right now - Google just stole its chief technology officer in India. As part of the deal, Prasad Bharat Ram has been given control of Google's research and development arm in Bangalore.