Google in talks to buy youtube.com
There are a lot of big players interested in acquiring youtube.com but latest rumours are that Google is in current negotiations for around US$1.6 billion dollars. That is an amazing sum of money for a site which is around 18 months old. Whilst there are no doubts that youtube generates considerable traffic, one has to wonder if its level of popularity would remain as high, if measures were implemented to stop copyrighted material, something which the intended buyer would have to do at some stage. More details can be found here.