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Google Could Be Gearing Up To Take On Pay TV Market

Google Could Be Gearing Up To Take On Pay TV Market

If recent rumors are true Google could be preparing to give Comcast, DirecTV and other “pay TV” company’s a run for their money by launching a competing nationwide network. Google is currently building an ultra-fast fiber-optic network in Kansas City, […]

Google And Yahoo Launching Digital Newsstands Next Week [Report]

Google And Yahoo Launching Digital Newsstands Next Week [Report]

Yahoo and Google are both expected to unveil new digital newsstand apps next week according to a report by All Things D. Yahoo will hit first with their Livestand app launching on Wednesday followed by Google who will release their Propeller […]

Yahoo Reportedly Loses Hulu Bidding As Google Hangs On

Yahoo Reportedly Loses Hulu Bidding As Google Hangs On

The bidding process for Hulu is slimming down and reports are now circulating that Yahoo, Inc. has dropped out of the process after placing a big in the vicinity of $1 billion to $2 billion. The Wall Street Journal revealed […]

Google Puts Up $100M, Close to Finalizing Original Content Deals For Channels

Google Puts Up $100M, Close to Finalizing Original Content Deals For Channels

Does anyone hear a far off tapping noise? Is that… someone driving the final nails in the coffin of exorbitant cable bills? Google’s YouTube is working out the details of a deal to pour $100 million into some deals for […]

Should Google Curate Content to Curb Prominence of Sensational News?

Should Google Curate Content to Curb Prominence of Sensational News?

Back in June on Real Time With Bill Maher- on an episode with David Carr of the New York Times and documentary filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi- Maher lamented the model of coverage saturation when it comes to web news. Maher said: “The New […]

Google Working On Flipboard Competitor [Rumor]

Google Working On Flipboard Competitor [Rumor]

Google isn’t the type of company to sit by and watch other software firms take control of any given market and now it appears they have Flipboard, AOL Editions and Yahoo’s Livestand in their sights, planning a new app of […]

YouTube Adds Quick-Fix Editing Features to Simplify Changes to Uploaded Videos

YouTube Adds Quick-Fix Editing Features to Simplify Changes to Uploaded Videos

In the past, editing a YouTube video after it was published would require a re-upload, causing links to break and interrupting a clip’s popularity. But that is changing with an announcement from the company on their blog that users will […]

Google Targets Yelp, OpenTable With Zagat Purchase

Google Targets Yelp, OpenTable With Zagat Purchase

Until the web came along and popularized local restaurant review outfits like Yelp and OpenTable, Zagat was the source for finding out whether an unexplored establishment might or might not have been worth the trip. But Zagat’s transition to a market […]

Why buying Hulu would be nothing but a mug’s game

Why buying Hulu would be nothing but a mug’s game

As my colleague James Johnson here at Medacity has written about a few times here, Hulu is apparently up for sale to any company dumb enough to fork over the money, and lots of it, only to quite possibly end […]

Google Making Hulu Move, Plans To Offer More Money For Better Terms

Google Making Hulu Move, Plans To Offer More Money For Better Terms

As I reported on Monday the Hulu bidding wars have already begun with Amazon, Yahoo and Dish Network each offering in the vicinity of $1.5 billion to $2 billion for the rights to the company and now rumors are circulating […]

Blogger Finally Gets Much Needed Updates, Google Adds Cleaner Editor UI, Analytics Help

Blogger Finally Gets Much Needed Updates, Google Adds Cleaner Editor UI, Analytics Help

Blogger hasn’t had a major update in years and has lost much of it’s ground to the likes of WordPress, Tumblr and arguably even Twitter and now to combat those losses and to bring the program inline with Google’s new […]

YouTube Pairs With ‘New York Times,’ Google, Storyful For 9/11 Memorial Channel

YouTube Pairs With ‘New York Times,’ Google, Storyful For 9/11 Memorial Channel

Undoubtedly, the seminal moment where new media became a mainstream source for breaking information was in the hours and days following the cataclysmic events of September 11th. The trove of news and media from the day itself (the 10th anniversary […]

Demand Media Signs Three-Year Global Advertising Deal With Google

Demand Media Signs Three-Year Global Advertising Deal With Google

Despite Google Panda taking a huge chunk out of their traffic, Demand Media on Tuesday announced the renewal of their global advertising initiative with the search giant. Under terms of the three year agreement Google will monetize Demand Media’s properties […]