Viacom Once Abusing DMCA Again?
It appears Viacom hasn’t learned its lesson after its last abuse of the DMCA takedown notice. It’s now targeting a YouTube video that includes a clip of a VH1 show, which includes the unauthorized use of video created by the person who uploaded the YouTube clip.
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Google CFO George Reyes Announces Retirement
Google announced this week that Chief Financial Officer George Reyes is retiring and leaving the company later this year. Reyes, who has been with the company five years, is only the second major executive to leave Google, ever, as far back as anyone can remember. Reyes intends to stay with the company while it searches […]
Google Gobbles up News Vertical
Late on Friday afternoon is a brilliant time for Google to announce a major change with their news service if they do not want people to talk about much. With their AP, Agence France-Presse, The Press Association in the United Kingdom and The Canadian Press syndication deals, Google claims they are improving duplicate detection, increasing listing variety, and as a net result they are sending MORE traffic to the people they signed syndication deals with.
Google Says It’s Time To Turn Japanese
Phone and cable companies are losing the Net Neutrality debate, and losing it badly. And Google’s Washington Telecom and Media Counsel Richard Whitt doesn’t mind pointing that out.
Web Site Lets College Football Fans Decide
FansPoll.com, a Web site that allows fans to vote on things related to college football including what team should be the national champions announced the official launch of its season today.
Google News Seals Deals With Major Agencies
The Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, the Press Association, and the Canadian Press are expanding upon earlier deals with Google News, and as part of the latest arrangement, Google News will now host some of their stories on its own site.
Facebook Users Fight (And Beat) Bank’s Decision
Here’s a brilliant financial guideline by which most people live: don’t spend more money than you have. But when a UK bank tried to enforce that guideline by charging interest on overdrafts, a big, Facebook-style fuss erupted. An interesting resolution then occurred: the Facebook users won.
Europe Still Looking For An Answer To Google
While America’s busy celebrating Labor Day (mmm, ribs), Europe will be hard at work farming a Google competitor.
Businesses Expect Ecommerce Sales To Increase
Close to 30 percent of small businesses in the U.S. are estimating that their ecommerce sales will increase over the next 12 to 24 months, according to the Small Business Research Board study out now.
Dailymotion Draws In $34 Million
In terms of U.S. market share among video-sharing sites, Veoh is in sixth place, and in June, it received $26 million in funding. Just ten days ago, Metacafe, the eighth place site, collected $30 million. And now Dailymotion, which is in tenth, got $34 million. Um . . . right.