Confirmed: Google Buys YouTube

Posted by Jeff Chenkus on October 9, 2006
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Making official what has been rumored, and quite accurately, Google announced that it has purchased YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock.

Youtube will maintain its current offices and all employees will retain their jobs. All 67 of them that is. I have to assume that they may see some windfall out of this.

They plan to incorporate YouTube with their online advertising. Unclear exactly how they plan to do that, but YouTube certainly lends itself to a number of creative uses.

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2 Responses to “Confirmed: Google Buys YouTube”

  1. Nerd Approved - News and Reviews - » Is YouTube Already Going Downhill? on October 30th, 2006 11:53 pm

    [...] It’s only been a few weeks since Google purchased YouTube for $1.65 billion, but it appears that the copyright infringement fallout predicted by many analysts is beginning to come true. [...]

  2. Nerd Approved - News and Reviews - » UTube Sues YouTube on November 2nd, 2006 11:07 am

    [...] Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corporation, owners of the site UTube.com have decided to sue YouTube.com ( hmmm, I wonder why they decided to do it now?). [...]

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