Any search deal with AOL (NYSE: AOL) would start with the same given: search-advertising revenue will continue to decline as it loses access subscribers. But AOL CEO Tim Armstrong says the deal with Google to extend their search partnership through 2015 should make each search it does get more lucrative—and…

Ending months of speculation about whether AOL (NYSE: AOL) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) can make a new search deal, the companies announced this morning that Google will be the portal’s exclusive search partner through Dec. 31, 2015. The expanded search and content deal now covers mobile search and puts AOL’s…

YouTube will be broadcasting all Major League Baseball games on its site in Japan next year, in what the company is calling “the largest partnership for premium sports content” in its history.

Some of the stories people are talking about this morning:»  YouTube is negotiating with the major movie studios to launch a streaming video service, which would include new releases and could launch as soon as the end of the year. If this all sounds familiar, that’s because there were similar…

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Corp. co-founder Paul Allen is suing Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and nine other companies indirectly through his firm Interval (NSDQ: IILG) Licensing alleging that the technology giants are violating patents developed at a lab in Silicon Valley that he financed more than a decade ago,…

When YouTube launched a US TV section in April 2009, with shows from CBS (NYSE: CBS), it came along with a Movies section, with flicks from MGM and Lionsgate. In the same way, the video site is now adding a UK movies section to the UK TV section it opened…

Steve Jobs may be betting the upcoming fifth revision to the web’s HTML language will fill iOS’ Flash gap, but the BBC doesn’t think that prospect is going to happen any time soon.

Songkick, a website that lists music gigs old and new and which lets attendees share their experiences, has struck an arrangement to syndicate concert listings to YouTube and Vevo. YouTube is using Songkick’s API to show upcoming nearby gigs to users of its music section and its Vevo music videos…

Some of the stories people are talking about this morning:»  A Jack Griffin-led Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) would include the same emphasis he put on marketing services at Meredith (NYSE: MDP), but on a larger scale. [Mediaweek] »  CNN may be suffering in the ratings, but under Jon Klein, president…

If you’ve ever tried to upload a video to YouTube and found it rejected for being more than 10 minutes long, you may be pleased to learn YouTube is giving you five more minutes of video time. Why, after years of complaints, is YouTube extending the length of uploaded videos…

YouTube will dole out $5 million in grants to some of its top video uploaders in its latest move to up the quality of clips on its site. The site says in a blog post that while many of its contributors “have been able to produce incredible videos” and “generate…

YouTube’s latest attempt to get people to watch more videos is a service called Leanback, which keeps on playing a selection of full-screen clips until you tell it to stop. YouTube calls it “effortless viewing” and users don’t have to select anything. Instead, the non-stop lineup is determined by a…

YouTube is giving its mobile site an overhaul, which is designed to bring much of the functionality of the YouTube website to the mobile version, which the company now says gets more than 100 million views a day. In a blog post announcing the changes, YouTube says the new mobile…

The news that Hulu was finally unveiling a subscription service broke during a press gathering at Google’s Chelsea Market. A few minutes earlier, Baljeet Singh,YouTube’s senior product manager was discussing an ongoing beta test of an “ad-skipping” button that the Google-owned video site expects to fully release by the end…

A federal judge has given Google (NSDQ: GOOG) a big win in its long-standing litigation with Viacom (NYSE: VIA). In a decision, embedded after the jump, the judge grants Google’s request for summary judgment, saying that YouTube can’t be held liable for copyright infringement because it is protected by provisions…

YouTube is continuing with its premium content push—this time announcing a multi-year deal with World Wrestling Entertainment to bring full episodes of several wrestling shows, including WWE “Friday Night SmackDown,” to the site. YouTube is calling the deal “one of the first times that YouTube will feature complete episodes of…

A CNN International debate programme that took viewers’ questions via YouTube broke UK rules by offering product placement and sponsorship to the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) video site, according to UK media regulator Ofcom. The CNN YouTube Debate on Climate Change, as it was called, was aired on UK and worldwide…

Updated: Some more tidbits from the latest batch of unsealed documents in the Viacom (NYSE: VIA) copyright suit against Google/YouTube, this time from Google. Pushing its own agenda, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) highlights Viacom’s internal discussions about buying YouTube, plays up Viacom’s top lawyer’s defense of YouTube compared to Grokster; and…

Another batch of filings and unsealed documents today in the Viacom (NYSE: VIA) lawsuit against Google/YouTube and another rollicking trip down memory lane. One favorite: a batch of memos between MTV Networks head Judy McGrath and former execs Michael Wolf and Blair Harrison in July 2006 about buying the hot…