Great coverage of Youtube - Google deal

TheDeal's blog had a nice post on the Google - Youtube deal. The eye-opening $1.6 billion that Google is paying for Youtube once again shows the impact that Web 2.0 has been able to have in a short period of time.

Here is the post from today's DealBook with more links.

Google, the online search behemoth, agreed yesterday to pay $1.65 billion in stock for YouTube in a deal that invited comparisons to the mind-boggling valuations that were once given to dozens of Silicon Valley companies a decade ago.

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Meanwhile, a question mark still hangs over the thorny copyright questions that have been plaguing YouTube for some time.

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