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...MOUNTAIN VIEW)-Google Inc., announced today that it has agreed to acquire YouTube, the consumer media company for people to watch and share original videos through a Web experience, for $1.65 billion in a stock-for-stock transaction. Following the acquisition, YouTube will operate independently to preserve its successful brand and passionate community...
Absolutely. How many people are going to be satisfied with text messages on their telephones? How many are going to want to go to the Web to watch any number of sites? How many are still going to read an old-fashioned print newspaper like I do? I think there will be room for every part of the business. But people like a degree of editing. Somebody has to assemble it and say, Look, here it is, rather than just Google news where it's all put there according to the number of hits that it took. You might miss...
...consume news every day? What's the first thing you read or watch or look at in the morning...
...other instances, companies put tight caps on their pink payouts. Last year, for instance, Cartier promised to donate $30,000 to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation from the sales of its stylish pink-ribbon Roadster watch. But since the watch retails for $3,900, that's less than the price of eight watches. This year Cartier lowered the price to $3,800 and agreed to donate $200 for each watch sold but guaranteed only a $16,000 donation...
...away, and programs like it do a service by alerting parents to threats. And last week, which also saw the schoolhouse murders of five Amish girls by a stranger who evidently planned to rape his victims, the media could be forgiven its wall-to-wall weirdo watch. The problem is proportion. Strangers make up 7% of child molesters; the vast majority are family members. But you wouldn't know it from watching TV. When stranger predators are everywhere on TV, it suggests that they are everywhere in the real world: in your schoolyard, roaming your street, and--especially--climbing...