{"id":951,"date":"2006-10-07T11:04:08","date_gmt":"2006-10-07T10:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/07\/google-in-talks-to-buy-youtube\/"},"modified":"2006-10-07T11:17:06","modified_gmt":"2006-10-07T10:17:06","slug":"google-in-talks-to-buy-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/07\/google-in-talks-to-buy-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"Google in talks to buy YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Google is reported to be in talks to buy popular video-sharing website YouTube for $1.6bn (\u00a3856m).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Wall Street Journal said discussions between the two sides were at a sensitive stage and the talks could break up,\u00a0neither Google nor YouTube have made any comment on this as of yet.<\/p>\n<p>Founded by three former employees of eBay&#8217;s PayPal electronic payment unit, YouTube has denied previous rumours of a takeover.<\/p>\n<p>YouTube chief executive Chad Hurley\u00a0said\u00a0earlier this year that the company was not for sale and a future share flotation was possible.<\/p>\n<p>Launched in February 2005, YouTube has grown quickly into one of the most popular websites on the internet, with 100 million videos viewed every day.<\/p>\n<p>But\u00a0a potential future problem for YouTube and any buyer, is that a great many users put up their favourite music videos and film clips, for which they have not gained copyright approval.<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/business\/5414432.stm\">BBC News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is reported to be in talks to buy popular video-sharing website YouTube for $1.6bn (\u00a3856m). The Wall Street Journal said discussions between the two sides were at a sensitive stage and the talks could break up,\u00a0neither Google nor YouTube have made any comment on this as of yet. Founded by three former employees of eBay&#8217;s PayPal electronic payment unit,<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pull-left padding-top-25\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/07\/google-in-talks-to-buy-youtube\/\" class=\"btn btn-theme\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google in talks to buy YouTube&#8221;<\/span> <i class=\"fa fa-fw fa-long-arrow-right\"><\/i> <\/a>  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}