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Each week, 14% of YouTube views are of videos with advertisements. This may not seem like a vast figure, but analysts tell the New York Times that YouTube will be finally be profitable in 2010 , bringing in $450 million in revenue. How ...

Google is still trying to hammer out deals with labels so it can start selling music, Reuters reports . Google wants to have a "digital locker" for people's music. That just means consumers can buy their music once and use it on every device. ...

Few industries are more badly in need of disruption than textbook publishing. Every semester, students fork over masses of cash for extremely expensive textbooks. Teachers choose the books, but students pay for them, so the incentives to compet...

Gawker Media's marketing manager Christopher Mascari has released a chart showing the change in the company's social-media referral traffic over the past year.  Peter Kafka at All Things D has analyzed and published it. Digg has gone ...

We've been pounding Twitter lately over how it asked users to update  Twitter clients on their phones and computers due to something called "oAuth." Like any issue in this space, there's lots of nuance we could get into. But here's wh...

How did Apple cut the waiting period for an iPad to 24 hours? By cranking up production. Apple is manufacturing 2 million iPads each month, according to Katy Huberty at Morgan Stanley ( via John Paczkowski .) Huberty says Apple is hoping to...