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Chatroulette is plotting another comeback! The Russian website that allows complete strangers to jump from one awkward random video chat to the next was all the rage among the Web’s tastemakers in the first half of last year, but it seems like everyone’s now pretty much moved on. The fact that the site was – and is still – frequently used by creeps who couldn’t seem to keep their pants on didn’t help much in that regard.

Google (GOOG) has acquired Green Parrot Pictures, a Dublin, Ireland-based provider of digital video.

Google is in final-stage discussions to acquire online video site Next New Networks, people familiar with the matter said.

What's the difference between the big screen in your living room, the smaller screen on your laptop or the tiny one in your pocket?

YouTube forms a very small portion of Google's overall business accounting for 4% of Google's stock

A British official pressed for the removal of videos featuring calls to jihad by Anwar al-Awlaki, and a New York legislator, Anthony Weiner, sent YouTube a letter.

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Google Inc.'s YouTube has launched a public test of a new live-streaming video service, the site's most ambitious foray into live programming.

Natalie Tran isn’t just some 22-year-old who lives in her parent’s house, makes look-at-me videos and posts them on YouTube for kicks. OK, she is. But her clips on communitychannel have also made her one of 10 global independent YouTube stars who have earned more than $100,000 in the past year, as reported by Business Insider. Tran earned an estimated $101,000, according to TubeMogul, an analytics and advertising company partnered with Microsoft.

Hulu, the online-video site owned by three large media companies, is exploring an initial public offering.