How to Spend a Billion-Plus on User-Generated Content, Google Edition

Sure, Tumblr could be a GeoCities for Yahoo. What if it’s a YouTube? Here’s what the video site’s financials looked like when Google bought it.
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With an Eye on Viacom, Netflix Adds More Kids’ Shows From Disney

Dora could go. But Jake is coming.
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DreamWorks Close to Buying AwesomenessTV, YouTube’s Would-Be Nickelodeon

Lots of Big Media companies are investing in YouTube startups. Now a Hollywood heavyweight may buy one.
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Adios, Dora? Why Netflix Can Afford to Get Pickier About Its Content Deals.

The digital gravy train may be coming to a halt for the movie and TV guys. It was good while it lasted.
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Netflix Says Its “House of Cards” Strategy Worked, and Wall Street Agrees

Binge-viewing works, says Reed Hastings. Or, at least the buzz about binge-viewing works. Meanwhile: It may be time to say adios to Dora and Diego.
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YouTube Beats Viacom in Copyright Case, Again

Check out Chad Hurley’s taunt!
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Why Netflix Money May Be Expensive for Viacom

Why watch “SpongeBob” on TV, with commercials, when you can see it whenever you want on the Web, ad-free?
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So, Why Isn’t the Angry Birds Cartoon Coming to American TV?

As if you needed another screen in your home with Angry Birds on it, anyway.
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Billions! Cablevision Takes Its Second Swing at Viacom in Bundling-Breaking Fight.

Here come the documents! Well, some of them, at least.
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Imagining a Post-Bundle TV World

What happens when the “bundle” begins to unravel?

Walmart’s Cloud Movie Service Shapes Up

Netflix’s Biggest Movies, Now on Amazon