Vevo is an online music venture, which YouTube and Vivendi SA's Universal Music Group are launching later this year.

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Comcast to debut cable shows online by year's end

PHILADELPHIA — You'll be able to watch popular cable television series such as HBO's "Entourage" and AMC's "Mad Men" on your computer by the end of the year without paying extra — as long as you're a Comcast Corp. subscriber watching at home.

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Coming to mobile phones: Wall Street Journal fees

NEW YORK — The Wall Street Journal plans to start charging as much as $2 a week to read its stories on BlackBerrys, iPhones and other mobile devices, expanding the newspaper's effort to become less dependent on its print edition.

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WASHINGTON - The hottest thing on the Internet is not social networking websites like Facebook and Twitter, but Flickr-the popular photo-sharing portal - and the proof is: it has topped TIME's list of the best 50 websites this year.

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Forecaster says worst is over for US advertising

An advertising forecaster said Monday that the worst is over for the U.S. ad slump but that across-the-board revenue growth won't resume until well into 2011.

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Review: New Intel chips power skinny laptops

NEW YORK — Tiny, cheap laptops known as netbooks have been a big success. But not everyone likes their small screens and keyboards, and their processors aren't powerful enough for some common tasks, like playing high-quality Internet video.

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Microsoft had announced a massive ad campaign for its search engine Bing - more than thrice of what Google spends on its publicity.  In line with its ad efforts to popularize Bing as bada bing, Bing Crosby or Stanley Bing, Microsoft would be buying prominent placement for bing.com in popular online video hub Hulu and the television shows. This is Microsoft's latest assault against the search engine ace Google, after tasting lemon on all its previous attempts. This time Microsoft's seems all set to blow the horn, let's see how.

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Would you like to pay for Hulu's videos? In near future you might have to. AOL's new chief, Jon Miller is targeting all digital initiatives at Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. Within a short span of his new position, Miller  has suggested that Hulu might add or move to a paid subscription model. Currently, Hulu is unique model that relieves the users with high quality content on demand with only one advertisement per commercial break. However, Hulu's total ad revenues is far less as compared to the traditional TV advertisements. The Hulu viewers are used to see charity ads at different slots when the company is unable to sell out its ad inventory. Millers contemplative thoughts might not be a mere speculation, as he owns a seat on Hulu's board (the Fox television network, a unit of News Corp., is part of the Hulu joint venture).

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With Hulu releasing its Hulu Desktop a week ago, YouTube declares a video war with its YouTube XL. With the new product, YouTube would take site viewing experience a step further. This revolutionary product will allow a vast majority of people to view YouTube's content on TV or large screen computer. Actually, YouTube XL is a redesigned version of the YouTube website and will be running on the browser. It won't need require any download to run the application.
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Microsoft ads say search is sick, Bing is the cure

SEATTLE — Microsoft Corp. is inventing a new malady for which its new Web search site, Bing, is the only cure.  That's the premise of the $100 million, four-month advertising campaign Microsoft hopes will turn Bing into a verb and give the software maker a fighting chance against search leader Google Inc. — unlike its last redesign, Live Search, which launched four years ago to such little fanfare that many Web surfers still don't know where to find it online.

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