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According to a comScore recent release, nearly 75 percent of U.S. Internet users watched an average of three hours of online video during the month of July, with  Americans viewing more than 9 billion videos online.
Google Sites ranked as the top U.S. video property with nearly 2.5 billion videos viewed (27.0 percent share of videos), [...]

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Google’s SEC filing on February 7th, 2007, finally revealed the breakdown of profits shared by YouTube’s investors after the sale of the company to Google for $1.65 billion in stock in late 2006.The largest profits went to YouTube’s three founders and Sequoia Capital, the principal financier of the internet’s number one video-sharing site.The NY Times reported that founder and YouTube’s chief executive Chad Hurley received 694,087 shares of Google and an additional 41,232 in a trust.

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Apple announced a revolutionary multi-media (iPod and widescreen video) mobile phone which featured a unique touchscreen interface. The phone features GSM + EDGE, Quad Band, WIFI, Bluetooth, an acceleromoter (which allows for automatic portrait to widescreen rendering by rotating the device), an ambient light sensor, and seemless integration with iTunes, iPhoto, iCal and a [...]

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Wired.com reports on Google Inc.’s attempts to crack down on Click Fraud.

Google’s $6 billion-a-year advertising business is at risk because it can’t be sure that anyone is looking at its ads. The problem is called click fraud, and it comes in two basic flavors.
With network click fraud, you host Google AdSense advertisements on your own [...]

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In an attempt to protect its advertising partners from click fraud, Google is testing a new type of online ad that would only charge the advertiser when a user performs a certain action. This would assure advertisers that they are getting a return on their investment, while weeding out false clicks.

Source:  BetaNews

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AOL formally announced its revised partnership with Google Inc. today.  Google has agreed to purchase a 5 percent stake in AOL for $1 billion giving AOL a valuation of $20 billion USD.  Google will also offer AOL advertising “credits” valued at $300 million which will allow AOL to promote its web properties on Google’s search [...]

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The Wall Street Journal reports that a deal between AOL and Google Inc. is imminent.  Google Inc. is taking a 5 percent stake in AOL for US $1 billion in cash.  That would give AOL a valuation of US $20 billion and alleviate some pressure on AOL’s parent Time Warner by parties including former AOL [...]

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Google’s Gmail is now mobile enabled. Users can now access the service through (almost) any web-enabled mobile phone through a variety of mobile browsers. Most of the service’s key features are available and have been optimized for the smaller format of mobile phone screens.
From Gmail Mobile’s news release:
Now you can access your Gmail [...]

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Google Inc. launched a new vertical search service for music.  Google Music allows users to search for musical artists, bands, songs, song lyrics, CD titles, titles, with the results will appearing accompanied by icons of music notes  Marissa Mayer, vice president of search products and user experience at Google indicated that any items that can [...]

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