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Even as credible rumors of acquisitions and IPOs spread, many onlookers were astonished by the amount of money Facebook seemed to believe…
In the Net Neutrality debate, the last thing phone and cable companies want is a proof of concept. In fact, as one FCC commissioner has noted, avoiding these proofs is what has kept them on relatively good behavior recently. So, it was bad news when torrent users accused Comcast of degrading and blocking torrents over the weekend.
The proliferation of cellphones and other devices have carved away some of television's lead as the electronic gadget of choice for media consumption.
Google's finally settled on a way to monetize YouTube, announcing they will be inserting ad overlays at the bottom of media partner videos. With pre-sale bandwidth bill reported to be $1 million per month and a pending Viacom behemoth of a lawsuit, the monetization strategy comes none too soon.
Google will "probably" bid in the FCC's 700 MHz spectrum auction set to take place in 2008, CEO Eric Schmidt told attendees at a Colorado summit with telecommunications industry representatives heavily in attendance.
There are hundreds of quality newspapers, and perhaps thousands of good online sources - every current event is covered extensively in text. Still, network news shows and cable news networks carry on, and now Google News intends to embrace video, as well.
