The adoption of Kubernetes-enabled infrastructures and applications has revealed the challenge involved in enabling persistent, reliable data storage in an ephemeral compute…
Read MorePolitical commentator Ronan Farrow says that social networks like Twitter and Facebook should do more to police violent content from terrorist groups -- but who gets to draw the line between free speech and hate speech, or choose which content should disappear forever?…
Read MoreEven if the FCC reimposes "net neutrality" rules, consumers' video streams could still suffer if ISP's are allowed to impose choke points at deeper layers of the internet.…
Read MoreYouTube is profitable, and generates billions -- but not as much as some think, according to a new report.…
Read MoreCan YouTube avoid its indiegeddon? The Google-owned video service is reportedly in talks with indie labels to strike an eleventh-hour agreement for its upcoming music subscription service.…
Read MoreBritish blogger Eliot Higgins, who has become a self-taught expert in the crowdsourced verification of news under his alias Brown Moses, is planning to launch a site called Bellingcat that will bring together other citizen journalists and also offer tools for those who want to learn how to do what he does…
Read MoreCable subscribers are starting to get access to YouTube and other online video services, thanks to cloud-based technology that brings modern apps to legacy set-top boxes.…
Read MoreWatching YouTube (S GOOG) live streams on the TV just got a bit easier: Chromecast owners can now beam any live video…
Read MoreYouTube is officially confirming its music subscription service -- but to get ready for its launch, it may take down music from some indie labels.…
Read MoreAl Jazeera just lifted the curtain on AJ+, its online news network for people who don't watch cable news anymore.…
Read MoreGoogle wants you to know which ISPs provide the best streaming experience, and it wants ISPs to work with it to ensure HD-quality streams without buffering.…
Read MoreYouTube wants to offer its creators crowdfunding tools as another way to make some bucks. A full announcement could come as early as next month.…
Read MoreGrasswire's founder says he launched the crowdsourced breaking-news service because he believes the power of the crowd to generate and curate news is a much stronger force for good than many people -- including professional journalists -- give it credit for…
Read MoreIn preparation for next week's NewFronts, YouTube has developed a new initiative to showcase the top five percent of channels for advertisers. But how much YouTube-born talent is going to be considered "Google Preferred"?…
Read MoreYouTube has delayed the launch of its music service even further. Part of the issue seems to be which videos to show while people play individual songs.…
Read MoreThis time the cause seems to be a leaked intelligence conversation regarding possible military action in Syria.…
Read MoreThe Turkish government has imposed a media blackout on a corruption investigation that goes all the way to the top. Now, as people turn to Twitter and YouTube to bypass that blackout, censorship of social media has begun in earnest.…
Read Morehttp://www.thestar.com/entertainment/music/2014/03/18/recording_industry_earns_more_from_fan_videos_than_from_official_music_videos.html Well this is interesting: Lip sync videos and other fan adaptations of pop hits make record labels more money that the…
Read MoreViacom ended its $1 billion copyright lawsuit against Google over unauthorized YouTube uploads. The companies now plan to work more closely together.…
Read MoreVobile wants to bring its video identification and management skills to YouTube publishers, which is why it hired YouTube analytics startup Blayze.…
Read MoreSpotify is starting to see nine-digit play counts for some of its songs -- but YouTube still drives far bigger audiences.…
Read MoreIn an unusual copyright decision that raises free speech questions, the 9th Circuit has ordered Google to remove all copies of a video and to prevent future uploads.…
Read MoreWhy should iOS and Android devices have all the Chromecast fun? Windows Phone owners can check out Tube Cast, a bare-bones app to stream YouTube videos to a Chromecast that shows potential.…
Read Morehttp://www.androidpolice.com/2014/02/10/chromecasting-now-supported-on-almost-all-embedded-youtube-videos/ YouTube has started to allow the casting of “most embedded YouTube videos,” according to an updated support document first spotted by Android Police. This…
Read MoreYouTube has paid record labels more than $1 billion in ad revenue over the last several years, said Google’s YouTube Content VP Tom…
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