In today’s news, Google finally pulled the trigger, ending much public speculation over whether or not it would purchase the video-sharing phenomenon YouTube for more than $1 billion. YouTube also announced agreements that might shore-up some of its copyright-related vulnerabilities.

LOS ANGELES, October 9, 2006, (PodTech News) — Google and video-sharing site YouTube announced a stock-for-stock transaction today valued at $1.65 billion. The deal, expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of this year, will combine YouTube with Google’s [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, October 9, 2006 (PodTech News) — California just gave telephone companies what they wanted – a big piece of the video franchise pie. An assembly bill that Governor Schwarzenegger signed into law September 29th makes a fundamental change [See the full post…]

Surveys on the economy, a completely unsubstiated rumor that gained some traction online today, a pretty hefty incentive to get cracking on your map of the human genome, and a bigger moon. You asked for it, you got it. (Moon [See the full post…]

BOSTON, October 6, 2006 (PodTech News) – Harvard Law School is experimenting this semester with a course taught partly in the real world and partly in the virtual 3D world Second Life. The class, called CyberOne: Law in the Court [See the full post…]

The Hewlett-Packard investigation moves into the courthouse, Google gives geeks the ability to search code and announces a plan to aid literacy programs worldwide, Starbucks and iTunes ink a deal to share some space, George Lucas drops a few hints [See the full post…]

Among the less sexy but more important stories we’re covering like the HP boardroom leak, a mea culpa from Apple CEO Steve Jobs, and the inevitable comment that — if the RIAA can scare the crap out of universities for [See the full post…]

In the news today, a record-setting showing for the Dow Jones, some sordid details from the Hewlett-Packard investigation, a new gadget from Nokia, an update from the Blu-ray v. HD DVD front, Nintendo’s raised expectations for the fourth quarter, and [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, October 2, 2006 (PodTech News) — In the news today, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based antivirus and computer security company McAfee speaks out against Microsoft and its long-anticipated and forthcoming Vista operating system, the federal government eases its grip [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, September 29, 2006 (PodTech News) – Digg Founders Jay Adelson and Kevin Rose have taken their underground, hacker-chic Internet television network, Revision3, out of the garage and into its first round of funding. They celebrated the formal launch [See the full post…]

LOS ANGELES, September 28, 2006, (PodTech News) — A consortium of leading mobile operators, network and device manufacturers and Internet content providers this week launched dotMobi. The new company — a product of collaboration between Ericsson, Microsoft, Nokia, Samsung Electronics, [See the full post…]

LOS ANGELES, September 27, 2006, (PodTech News) — DEMOfall 2006 is underway in San Diego this week. Billed as the premier launch venue for new products, technologies and companies, the invitation-only event includes a presentation by Solid State Networks.

LOS ANGELES, September 27, 2006 (PodTech News) — Control Room, formerly Network Live and MSN, Microsoft’s web portal, yesterday announced a multi-year content agreement to distribute live concert performances online. The deal gives Control Room, producer of last year’s Live [See the full post…]

LOS ANGELES, September 27, (PodTech News) — Wallop Technologies on Tuesday announced its own social networking site to compete against such heavyweights as MySpace, Friendster and others. Devoid of advertising, the new site debuted at DEMOfall 2006 in San Diego [See the full post…]

Tuesday night at The Mighty in San Francisco’s Potrero Hill district, Digg CEO Jay Adelson, Digg co-founder and Chief Architect, Kevin Rose, and a couple hundred friends, fans and coworkers celebrated the launch of Revision3, a new TV network for [See the full post…]

LOS ANGELES, September 26, (PodTech News) — The gloves are off for LimeWire in its dealings with the major record companies. The company on Monday filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, charging 13 [See the full post…]

LOS ANGELES, September 26, (PodTech News) — Santa Clara, Calif.-based Mercora, Inc. Monday released ‘M’ the first wireless, over-the-air mobile media software application for smart phones. The technology enables the user to access their computer’s digital music library from any [See the full post…]

PALO ALTO, September 22, 2006 (PodTech News) — Hewlett-Packard held a press briefing this afternoon at HP headquarters in Palo Alto at which they refused to answer any questions from the press. HP President and CEO Mark Hurd spoke, as [See the full post…]

LOS ANGELES, September 22, (PodTech News) — This week, The Walt Disney Company saw $1 million in revenue from 125,000 sales of digital movies oniTunes, proving — at least for now — that consumers will pay to download and watch [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, September 22, 2006 (PodTech News) — Hewlett-Packard held a press briefing this afternoon at which they refused to answer any questions. HP CEO and President Mark Hurd, along with Mike Holston, a representative of Morgan Lewis, the law [See the full post…]

SAN FRANCISCO, September 21, 2006 (PodTech News) — HP said this afternoon that its President and CEO Mark Hurd has volunteered to appear at the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing on [See the full post…]

LOS ANGELES, September 21, 2006 (PodTech News) — A group of hackers, human rights workers, lawyers and artists today launched a new web browser to protect computer users from hostile governments who would seek to identify them. Called “Torpark,” the [See the full post…]

MENLO PARK, September 20, 2006 (PodTech News) — Yahoo, Inc. executives warned investors at a conference yesterday that advertising growth seems to be slowing in some categories. There was a broad selloff of tech stocks on the news, and Yahoo’s [See the full post…]

Intel chairman Craig Barrett discusses the World Ahead Program which the company established in May 2006. Intel has pledged over $1 billion over the next five years, to bring internet coverage to various regions around the world. According to Barrett, [See the full post…]

LOS ANGELES, September 19, 2006 (PodTech News) — Microsoft officially entered the video sharing space with the beta launch of Soapbox on MSN Video. Codenamed Warhol, Soapbox will be featured on the MSN Video site and be integrated in new [See the full post…]