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CNET Buzz Report: Goo, as in Tube: October 13, 2006

2006-10-13
hi I'm Molly wood and welcome to the buzz report and now for the gadget of the week yes oh he'll save every one of us this my friends is the t-mobile - savior of the universe okay it's actually a windows mobile based smartphone and it's incredibly thin you can see small boasts a cute little keyboard super nice screen and really fast performance but most of all it wins the prize for best gadget name ever - ah Steve you rode the universe and now for the news Google about YouTube this week maybe you heard the transaction cost Google 1.65 billion dollars in stock set off days of speculation furious analysis and commentary from sometimes very dubious sources I'm not trying to say they're not gonna do anything with YouTube I just think they aren't gonna go in and Google if I it and totally change it but you know they're gonna be advertising all over that sucker they definitely bought YouTube because it's a huge advertising platform with about a bajillion eyeballs oh my god I am so famous anyway bloggers pundits and the mainstream media immediately started referring to the neucom juggernaut as goo tube hey goo but that led me to wonder what other merger possibilities were out there perhaps if yahoo had bought youtube it could have been called yoo-hoo or maybe a time warner purchase you time via tube pretty obvious but how about an encyclopedia of video wicket - via a news corp merger with myspace makes my scoob or microsoft coulda bought them and called it Microsoft video now apparently the Google YouTube deal actually went down in a Denny's restaurant in Silicon Valley reports say that once the deal was finalized between Google and the previously unprofitable YouTube its co-founders Chad Hurley and Steven Chen decided not to share a grand-slam breakfast as originally planned instead Chad went crazy and ordered his very own moons over my hammy now in the wake of the big GU Tube deal some analysts are starting to question whether Yahoo which was reportedly in the bidding for YouTube has lost its way a flurry of stories this week suggested that Yahoo is faltering and doesn't have a good plan for countering Google's increased dominance but Yahoo is not to be outdone oh no while Google is busy spending almost 2 billion dollars on a gigantic incredibly popular paradigm changing video and advertising platform Yahoo is hard at work creating and digitized time capsule that will beam signals and messages from an ancient pyramid in Mexico into space for the aliens to read see they have a plan in other news this week federal antitrust regulators have approved a 67 billion dollar merger between BellSouth and ATT creating the nation's largest telephone company and reuniting two parts of the old Ma Bell now some people might be wondering how antitrust regulators could possibly rubber-stamp such a huge and potentially monopolistic merger when there's already so little competition in the telecommunications industry well to help you understand we took a look inside the complicated world of antitrust regulation approval uh-huh I'm Molly wood and this has been the buzz report thanks for watching dude or you know playboy could buy them boob too
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