In what appears to be a slick move, NY Times is reporting that YouTube gave Sony and Universal BMG equity stakes in the company just hours before its sale to Google. The stakes could be worth up to $50 million. It also appears that YouTube set up similar deal with Warner earlier in the year.
Pretty slick. I assume the TV networks will want more $$ though.
via GigaOm
An examination of Mobile ESPN’s flaws from Business 2.0.
One thing I’m not sure about is Helio’s deal with MySpace. I thought that I read somewhere that the deal expires in the near future, at which time I’m sure the established players (VZW, Cingular, etc) will get involved.
via Deadspin
An analyst from Prudential has reportedly claimed that Apple will release two iPhones in January at MacWorld, including a smartphone with a QWERTY keyboard and WiFi.
I don’t really believe that they’d introduce two. I thought they’d float one and see the response. Although an Apple smartphone would be killer.
via Engadget
Business Week investigates.
The Daily Princetonian reports that 45% of incoming freshman use Macs this year.
If that’s true, thats big news. I also see more Macs around, including several of those sweet black MacBooks.
via TUAW
Ohh man, the time may come soon enough. Engadget reports that the vPod could be getting its finishing touches in Cupertino and that a pre-Christmas release is possible. That would be sweet.
The old news: Google bought YouTube for $1.65B. You can listen to the conference call with Eric Schmidt, Sergey, and many others here.
The new(er) news: The YouTube guys posted this video on their site:
Seems like their gloating some, huh? “Thanks for our million dollar payouts. Keep posting your videos. etc”
Deal is worth $19.2B. They could’ve bought them selves several copies of YouTube for that much. haha
Guess this means the Knicks will be bad for a while longer.
via SBD
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