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is a video-sharing website where users can upload videos. It is currently (7/2012) the largest such site, and was founded in 2005 by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, who all worked at PayPal before. While it mainly featured movies from regular folks (and some illegal user uploads) at the beginning, but eventually YouTube grabbed enough market share to attract higher quality content over the years. Now, there is something for everyone, and YouTube continues to push for high-quality content, while keeping the support from amateur video-makers. The company was acquired by Google in 2006 for $1.6B.
Microsoft Accuses Google Executives Of Intentionally Not Creating Native YouTube App For Windows Phone
01/03/2013, Before Windows Phone started making a splash, the smartphone platform wars was mostly between Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android, although in all fairness Google did roll out several official iOS apps that were pretty good, such as the recent Google [...]
Google Removes 2 Billion Fake Views On YouTube
12/28/2012, With 2013 just around the corner, Google is starting early with its resolution to remove millions of fake views on its popular video streaming service, YouTube. According to Daily Dot, around 2 billion fake views were removed from YouTube channels [...]
‘Gangnam Style’ Becomes The First YouTube Video To Hit One Billion Views
12/21/2012, “Gangnam Style,” the K-pop single made by the South Korean artist PSY, has just reached one billion views. Sorry Charlie, you’ll have to bite more fingers to surpass this record. The feat follows after the video made its way into [...]
YouTube Highlights Its News-Sharing Ability In 2012 Recap
12/19/2012, Once again, we’re inching closer to the end of the year and YouTube has decided to reflect on its news-sharing ability in 2012. In a blog post, YouTube shared some of its more popular topics this year, one of which [...]
YouTube Capture for iOS Has Users Sharing Life’s Moments With Ease
12/17/2012, YouTube has served as a great way for people to share their experiences with the world, and that experience is about to get easier with YouTube’s new Capture app for iOS. YouTube Capture was created for those users who want [...]
YouTube For Tablets Revamped, Looks Dapper Now
12/10/2012, Remaining complacent is one of the cardinal sins that companies and organizations should learn to avoid. After all, while you remain static, your competitors who are far hungrier than you, would definitely take the opportunity to “overtake” your current position [...]
YouTube Flies With Virgin America
12/07/2012, YouTube is now flying with Virgin America. YouTube has struck a deal with the U.S.-based airline on Thursday this week. The deal involves streaming YouTube content from partners to seat-back screens on Virgin America airplanes in the U.S. and Mexico. Beginning December [...]
Charlie Bit My Finger Hits 500 Million Views
12/07/2012, I don’t know about you, but virtually everyone I know who spends plenty of time with YouTube over the past few years would have watched the “Charlie bit my finger” viral video, and this has certainly added up over the [...]
YouTube Gets New Look & Improved Guide Feature
12/07/2012, YouTube is getting better. Google is announcing today that it has updated its popular video streaming service. One of the highlights of the update is the improvement of the Guide feature, which now works across devices – be it on [...]
YouTube Auto-Captions Now Supports 6 European Languages
11/28/2012, YouTube users, especially our beloved readers in France, will be thrilled to find out that Google’s video streaming service is now supporting six European Languages. The news follows after Google updated the service to support Japanese, Spanish, and Korean languages. [...]
Nintendo Wii YouTube App Arrives In The US
11/16/2012, So you are still rocking to an old school (I guess you can classify this particular console as such now) Nintendo Wii, while the next generation Nintendo Wii U is being prepared for a holiday release? Fret not, there will [...]
YouTube to update app for iPhone 5
11/13/2012, If you happen to own one of the spanking new iPhone 5 smartphones, then you would have found the YouTube app to be less useful than before, partly because the app was originally designed for previous generations of the iPhone [...]
YouTube for Android now lets you stream videos to Google TV
11/13/2012, Google has just updated its YouTube app for Android. And it is likely an update that many of its users will love. That’s because the latest version of YouTube for Android now allows users to automatically pair their Android devices [...]
