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YouTube, which is already trying out the movie rental business, wants to get into TV too

As a joint venture between Disney, Fox and NBC Universal, Hulu is best known for its free and extensive library of TV shows and movies.

Television search engine startup Clicker.com has been in private beta for several months, and sees its public launch today. Positioning itself as a “TV Guide for television content online,” Clicker has indexed over 400,000 episodes from 7000 television shows, making it a veritable one stop shop for finding legally-available TV shows online.

Hulu is thinking about charging for its videos. That's playing with fire, my friends.

It’s been rumored for a while now that Hulu intends to launch a subscription service. The NBC/FOX/ABC online video website already has built up an audience with its impressive TV library and alien ad campaigns, but the networks have been looking to turn Hulu into a significant profit generator.

When your website first reaches a million visitors, it’s a great milestone. However, one billion views per day can only be attained by the selected few, and YouTube is now one of them.

Don't want to drag your telescope out for a gander at NASA's moon impact mission? Stick to your friend, the Internet, instead tomorrow morning. Slooh, a web-based telescope-viewing site, offers live coverage of NASA's $79 million Lunar Crater Observation and...

Warner Music Group has completed a deal with YouTube that will bring back music videos for Green Day, U2, Madonna and other artists to the video-sharing site from which they were removed in December, according to two executives familiar with the talks.

Warner has also commenced talks with Vevo, the "Hulu for music" joint venture between YouTube and Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainments.

There's always been a tension in search between organizing information for users and getting out of the way so they can get to ...

Digital advertising likely won't compensate for loss of traditional revenues.