Brian Stelter New York Times

There are widespread doubts about whether people will be willing to pay for channels.

The deal between Broadway Video and Yahoo highlights the jockeying among companies that want to have a library of online videos to call their own.

After suffering a big setback, the broadcast world may have to learn to live with it.

One of Yahoo's newest employees is a 17-year-old high school student in Britain. As of Monday, he is one of its richest, too.

In an emerging battle over regulating Internet access, companies are taking sides. Facebook, one of the companies that has flourished on the open Internet, indicated Wednesday that it did not support a proposal by Google and Verizon that critics say...

YouTube, a unit of Google, took another step toward widespread live video-streaming on Monday, testing it with four Web video companies in a two-day trial.The four companies, Howcast, Next New Networks, Rocketboom and Young Hollywood, started live-streaming on Monday morning.YouTube,...

An IBM supercomputer system named after the company's founder, Thomas J Watson senior, is almost ready for a televised test: A bout of questioning on the quiz show "Jeopardy".IBM and the producers of "Jeopardy" will announce on Tuesday that the...

YouTube, the video site owned by Google, is in talks to buy Next New Networks, a Web video production company, according to two people briefed on the discussions. The acquisition would be YouTube's first major foray into producing original content,...

Risk-taking and line-skirting have always been just one more cost of doing business for Rupert Murdoch.But the widening voice-mail hacking scandal at the British tabloid News of the World threatens to stain the company's image in a way that other embarrassing incidents at News Corporation's far-flung media properties -- which also include the Fox n...

The terse announcement came just after 9:45 p.m. Sunday from Dan Pfeiffer, the White House communications director. "POTUS to address the nation tonight at 10:30 PM Eastern Time," he wrote on Twitter, sharing the same message that had just been transmitted to the White House press corps.According to Brian Williams, the "NBC Nightly News" anchor, so...

For some of the protesters facing Bahrain's heavily armed security forces in and around Pearl Square in Manama, the most powerful weapon against shotguns and tear gas has been the tiny camera inside their cellphones.By uploading images of this week's violence in Manama, the capital, to Web sites like YouTube and yFrog, and then sharing them on Face...

Lara Logan, the CBS News correspondent, was attacked and sexually assaulted by a mob in Cairo on Feb. 11, the day that the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was forced from power, the network said Tuesday.After the mob surrounded her, Ms. Logan "suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an ...

For decades cable channels have been built around specific interests like news, sports or classic movies. Beginning this weekend, there will be something altogether different: a cable channel shaped around a person, Oprah Winfrey.The channel, called OWN, short for the Oprah Winfrey Network, will depend in part on Ms. Winfrey's powerful role as a ta...

Joined by a dozen of his favourite guests over the decades, Larry King hosted his final edition of "Larry King Live" on Thursday, ending a 25-year chapter at CNN.The suspenders will remain, he said, but his nightly forum for newsmakers and noisemakers will not. He said at the beginning of the program, "Welcome to the last 'Larry King Live.' It's ha...

YouTube, the video site owned by Google, is in talks to buy Next New Networks, a Web video production company, according to two people briefed on the discussions. The acquisition would be YouTube's first major foray into producing original content, and demonstrates how intently it is focused on offering professional videos rather than just short cl...

There are widespread doubts about whether people will be willing to pay for channels.

The deal between Broadway Video and Yahoo highlights the jockeying among companies that want to have a library of online videos to call their own.

After suffering a big setback, the broadcast world may have to learn to live with it.

One of Yahoo's newest employees is a 17-year-old high school student in Britain. As of Monday, he is one of its richest, too.

In an emerging battle over regulating Internet access, companies are taking sides. Facebook, one of the companies that has flourished on the open Internet, indicated Wednesday that it did not support a proposal by Google and Verizon that critics say...

YouTube, a unit of Google, took another step toward widespread live video-streaming on Monday, testing it with four Web video companies in a two-day trial.The four companies, Howcast, Next New Networks, Rocketboom and Young Hollywood, started live-streaming on Monday morning.YouTube,...

An IBM supercomputer system named after the company's founder, Thomas J Watson senior, is almost ready for a televised test: A bout of questioning on the quiz show "Jeopardy".IBM and the producers of "Jeopardy" will announce on Tuesday that the...

YouTube, the video site owned by Google, is in talks to buy Next New Networks, a Web video production company, according to two people briefed on the discussions. The acquisition would be YouTube's first major foray into producing original content,...

Risk-taking and line-skirting have always been just one more cost of doing business for Rupert Murdoch.But the widening voice-mail hacking scandal at the British tabloid News of the World threatens to stain the company's image in a way that other embarrassing incidents at News Corporation's far-flung media properties -- which also include the Fox n...

The terse announcement came just after 9:45 p.m. Sunday from Dan Pfeiffer, the White House communications director. "POTUS to address the nation tonight at 10:30 PM Eastern Time," he wrote on Twitter, sharing the same message that had just been transmitted to the White House press corps.According to Brian Williams, the "NBC Nightly News" anchor, so...

For some of the protesters facing Bahrain's heavily armed security forces in and around Pearl Square in Manama, the most powerful weapon against shotguns and tear gas has been the tiny camera inside their cellphones.By uploading images of this week's violence in Manama, the capital, to Web sites like YouTube and yFrog, and then sharing them on Face...

Lara Logan, the CBS News correspondent, was attacked and sexually assaulted by a mob in Cairo on Feb. 11, the day that the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was forced from power, the network said Tuesday.After the mob surrounded her, Ms. Logan "suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an ...

For decades cable channels have been built around specific interests like news, sports or classic movies. Beginning this weekend, there will be something altogether different: a cable channel shaped around a person, Oprah Winfrey.The channel, called OWN, short for the Oprah Winfrey Network, will depend in part on Ms. Winfrey's powerful role as a ta...

Joined by a dozen of his favourite guests over the decades, Larry King hosted his final edition of "Larry King Live" on Thursday, ending a 25-year chapter at CNN.The suspenders will remain, he said, but his nightly forum for newsmakers and noisemakers will not. He said at the beginning of the program, "Welcome to the last 'Larry King Live.' It's ha...

YouTube, the video site owned by Google, is in talks to buy Next New Networks, a Web video production company, according to two people briefed on the discussions. The acquisition would be YouTube's first major foray into producing original content, and demonstrates how intently it is focused on offering professional videos rather than just short cl...