Wal-Mart Stores’ acquisition of the VUDU online movie service may presage more efforts by the world’s largest retailer to goose sales of digital entertainment… Tweet This Post

Update: The “rumor that Google is buying Brightcove is in fact false,” claims Web video analyst Dan Rayburn. He cites an employee “I trust” at one of the companies, who would not talk on the record… Tweet This Post

Fresh off the news that Google is buying reCAPTCHA, another major acquisition rumor has emerged. According to a tweet from Mark Glaser, Executive Editor of PBS MediaShift, “Brightcove in talks with Google about buyout in $500m to $700m range.”… Tweet This Post

First we had the race to 1 million followers on Twitter () (let the history books show that Ashton won). But did you know that a similar battle is brewing over the most Facebook fans? YouTube thinks they can take the title, and to make things more interesting they’re also allowing their Facebook fans to [...]

Google (GOOG) is very close to bringing movie rentals to YouTube, reports the WSJ. The new service would compete with products from Apple (AAPL), Amazon (AMZN), and Netflix (NFLX)…. Tweet This Post