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Google to acquire YouTube for $1.6 billion?

4 comments // Oct 7th, 2006 // Technology News

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Google, the world’s most popular search engine, is reported to be in talks to buy the extremely successful video-sharing website YouTube for $1.6bn (£856m).

The deal would cement YouTube’s reputation as one of the Internet’s fastest success stories since the dot com boom. The site was established 18 months ago in a Californian garage by Chad Hurley, 29, and Steve Chen, 27. They came up with an idea to share video files online, which has now become one of the world’s most popular websites, with 29,000 new clips downloaded every day.

Neither Google nor YouTube would comment on the reports, which surfaced on an industry blog, TechCrunch. The Wall Street Journal said a “person familiar with the matter” had confirmed talks were under way but at a sensitive stage.

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walking leaf

Author • walking leaf

I’m a graphic designer working for a major newspaper in the UK *It’s The Daily Telegraph* I am a big fan of motor racing and have attending many Formula One races. Love all kinds of movies, be it drama, action or thriller. I absolutely adore Elisha Cuthbert a.k.a. Kim Bauer from 24 and I am a big fan of Apple products.

4 responses so far, Want to add your opinion?

  1. Yink says:

    Did you know the staff at YouTube, nearly all use apple macs

    Oct 07, 2006, 3:08 pm
  2. walking leaf says:

    Really? That’s nice to know. ;-)

    It’s official. Google has brought YouTube for $1.65bn. Both sites will still run independently.

    News report: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6034577.stm

    Oct 07, 2006, 4:00 am
  3. Dallas says:

    Hey guys,
    I have an iMac G5 running tiger 10.4.7 and I an having a wierd problem. Whenever I go to a site that has an embedded youtube, flash or some kind of video, there is no sound. If it a quicktime file there is no problem. There is not sound no matter what broswer I use, firefox, camino, safari, or shiira. And keep in mind that about a week ago I was not having this issue.

    Help Would be awesome
    Thanks!

    Oct 07, 2006, 3:27 pm
  4. NeoBlade says:

    Hi Dallas.

    Grab FireFox and make sure you have the latest Flash version installed - http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/alternates/

    https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/plugins/

    Also update the shockwave software just incase. I had this issue once before on my sister’s PC but solved it by updating the software. See if this works for you, if not pop back and we’ll try something else ^_^

    Oct 07, 2006, 7:19 pm

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