Three Google executives were convicted of violating Italian privacy laws on Wednesday, the first case to hold the company’s executives criminally responsible for the content posted on its system… 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 [...]

In 2001, social media was just in its infancy, but now that people have such an easily accessible global outlet to share their memories, grief, anger, frustrations, and pain, social web sites are being used as gathering places today for those remembering the September 11th attacks… Tweet This Post

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

Barack Obama has it, Nicolas Sarkozy has it, Pope Benedict XVI has it, and now Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has one: his very own YouTube channel… Tweet This Post

We first launched the YouTube Partnership Program (YPP) to help some of our more popular users make money from their videos on YouTube. While we’ve focused on accepting prolific users who regularly produce videos that reach a wide audience — like Fred and ValsArtDiary — we’ve occasionally extended the program to include some of the [...]