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  • FM
    Wooooooo!
    • Jun 2004
    • 5361
    #1

    Google To Buy YouTube

    Looks like the reports came true.

    AP: "Google says it will buy YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock in a deal that unites one of the Internet's marquee companies with one of its rising stars."
    FM

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    • FM
      Wooooooo!
      • Jun 2004
      • 5361
      #2
      Re: Google To Buy YouTube

      Google buying YouTube - Oct. 9, 2006
      http://money.cnn.com/2006/10/09/technology/googleyoutube_deal/index.htm?cnn=yes
      Google, the Internet's leading search engine, announced Monday that it is buying popular online video site YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock.
      FM

      "Nowadays everyone is a fucking DJ." - Jack Dangers

      What record did you loose your virginity to?
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        • KinKyJ
          Platinum Poser
          • Jun 2004
          • 13438
          #3
          Re: Google To Buy YouTube

          was to be expected: the FT rumoured about it 2 months ago.

          when is google gonna buy ms btw?

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            • res0nat0r
              Someone MARRY ME!! LOL
              • May 2006
              • 14475
              #4
              Re: Google To Buy YouTube

              must be nice to be one of those guys who founded youtube to be a new billionaire

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                • Huggie Smiles
                  Anyone have Styx livesets?
                  • Jun 2004
                  • 11817
                  #5
                  Re: Google To Buy YouTube

                  i dont see how google are going to get over the licensing/copyright situation tho?
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                    • res0nat0r
                      Someone MARRY ME!! LOL
                      • May 2006
                      • 14475
                      #6
                      Re: Google To Buy YouTube

                      ^^ yeah i was wondering about that too..not too sure

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                        • DancingQueen
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                          • Oct 2005
                          • 4061
                          #7
                          Re: Google To Buy YouTube

                          so they only sold it for stock?
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                            • res0nat0r
                              Someone MARRY ME!! LOL
                              • May 2006
                              • 14475
                              #8
                              Re: Google To Buy YouTube

                              yeah prob gave those two kids 1.65 billion worth of google stock, i'd take it

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                                • feather
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                                  • Jul 2004
                                  • 20894
                                  #9
                                  Re: Google To Buy YouTube

                                  So they 'gave up' on Google Video?

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                                    • KinKyJ
                                      Platinum Poser
                                      • Jun 2004
                                      • 13438
                                      #10
                                      Re: Google To Buy YouTube

                                      ^^^ not sure. Youtube will keep its name and will keep on existing like it does now. Could be that it will be integrated in Google. The reason why they bought it (according to the FT some time ago) was to get some traffic from MySpace.com to boost up the advertising income.

                                      As for the copyright problem: Youtube and Google have been negotating with labels in order to be able to offer videoclips for free.

                                      Shit. Reminds me of the opening quote of Boiler Room (if any of you are in sales, watch this movie: friggin great sales pitches):

                                      I read this article a while back, that said that Microsoft employs more millionaire secretary's that any other company in the world. They took stock options over Christmas bonuses. It was a good move. I remember there was this picture, of one of the groundskeepers next to his Ferrari. Blew my mind. you see shit like that, and it just plants seeds, makes you think its possible, even easy. And then you turn on the TV, and there's just more of it. The $87 Million lottery winner, that kid actor that just made 20 million o his last movie, that internet stock that shot through the roof, you could have made millions if you had just gotten in early, and that's exactly what I wanted to do: get in. I didn't want to be an innovator any more, i just wanted to make the quick and easy buck, i just wanted in.

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                                        • Lorn
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                                          • Sep 2004
                                          • 5826
                                          #11
                                          Re: Google To Buy YouTube

                                          Originally posted by KinKyJ

                                          when is google gonna buy ms btw?
                                          I would say it will be the other way around. At some point all that cash MS has will eventually burn a whole in their pocket.

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                                            • tiddles
                                              Encryption, Jr.
                                              • Jun 2004
                                              • 6861
                                              #12
                                              Re: Google To Buy YouTube

                                              YouTube's server costs must be out of control. will be interesting to see if google can make money on that thing

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                                                • FM
                                                  Wooooooo!
                                                  • Jun 2004
                                                  • 5361
                                                  #13
                                                  Re: Google To Buy YouTube

                                                  ^^^$1 million/month in bandwidth
                                                  FM

                                                  "Nowadays everyone is a fucking DJ." - Jack Dangers

                                                  What record did you loose your virginity to?
                                                  "I don't like having sex with music on- I find it distracting. And if it's a mix cd- forget it. I'm stopping to check the beat mixing in between tracks." - Tom Stephan

                                                  Download/Listen To My Mixes
                                                  Facebook!
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                                                    • Huggie Smiles
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                                                      • Jun 2004
                                                      • 11817
                                                      #14
                                                      Re: Google To Buy YouTube

                                                      Originally posted by Huggie Smiles
                                                      i dont see how google are going to get over the licensing/copyright situation tho?


                                                      BBC NEWS | Business | Google's copyright nightmare
                                                      http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6038116.stm
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