Comments on: Google Overpaid For Youtube By A Billion Bucks

By: Microsoft Reach For The Skype

Microsoft Reach For The Skype — Wed, 11 May 2011 14:43:48 +0000

[...] Skype, after making the purchase for an eye watering $8.5 billion. That figure makes the $1.65 billion Google paid for Youtube, seem like [...]

By: Google Video Hosting Comes To An End

Google Video Hosting Comes To An End — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 18:02:28 +0000

[...] YouTube’s place in the market. The Google Video service began in 2005, the year before Google bought YouTube for a bank busting $1.65 billion. Google said: ”We would instead focus its efforts on video search [...]

By: Youtube Looking To Buy Independent Next New Networks

Youtube Looking To Buy Independent Next New Networks — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:50:55 +0000

[...] for buying the company is their network of independent filmmakers. Google have, since they purchased Youtube for $1.65 billion in 2006 been looking to both improve the content and revenue of the video site. They have already [...]

By: Advertisers Beware, Youtube To Let Users Skip The Ads

Advertisers Beware, Youtube To Let Users Skip The Ads — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 21:58:38 +0000

[...] innovation on a regular basis, usually designed to make it into a more profitable entity after the massive buyout by Google. The latest innovation though, seems to be designed more for the user than advertiser. [...]

By: Youtube Wants Viewers To Treat It Like A Television Set

Youtube Wants Viewers To Treat It Like A Television Set — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 15:14:03 +0000

[...] thing is for sure, when people’s mouths hung open at the pice Google paid for Youtube (which was admittedly $1 billion too much), they should have realised that there was a reason for this. If the convergance happens as Google [...]

By: urvashi

urvashi — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:23:43 +0000

investing a million bucks more for a mine of gold is not a loss anyways.the growth of you tube is so good that google’s recovery is made easy..