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Google Inc said it would acquire video compression software maker On2 Technologies Inc for $106.5 million, stepping up efforts to foster the spread of Internet video.

Google on Wednesday took another step in its Web video strategy by announcing it will acquire On2 Technologies, a creator of high-quality video compression technology in order to boost its YouTube site.

An animated music video directed by the late actor Heath Ledger debuted on the Web on Tuesday, and it's an attack on the whaling industry set to the song King Rat by alternative rock band Modest Mouse.

It will almost assuredly be ladies night this year at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards.

A YouTube video showing a 7-year-old boy at the wheel of a sport utility vehicle -- with his family cheering him on -- has prompted an investigation by Quebec police and family services, police said on Tuesday.

An industry executive familiar with Netflix's plans told Multichannel about Netflix plans in extending its services. Netflix is working towards its Video Streaming development to bring videos on Apple iPhone and iPod Touch devices including Nintendo Wii.

U.S. President Barack Obama, Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cambridge Police Sergeant James Crowley sit down for a beer at 6 p.m. Thursday afternoon in the Rose Garden, White House.

Michael Jackson's father Joe Jackson has confirmed that Omer Bhatti is really Michael's fourth child.

In the same week that Chris Brown went to YouTube to apologize for assaulting former girlfriend Rihanna, a viral videoclip of a wedding party dancing down the aisle to Brown's song Forever returned him to the charts.

A 7-year-old boy who stole his parents car in order to skip church, might need to head back to Sunday School to learn the Ten Commandments, especially “Thou Shalt Not Steal.”

With the once-resilient video game industry mired in a slump, investors are looking to big-name titles and potential price cuts for game consoles in the second half of the year to help spur a rebound in sales.

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, a panel of medical experts from around the country that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended on Wednesday that five groups of people should be vaccinated first.

Full video, audio and a transcript of Federal Reserve Bank chief Ben Bernanke's appearance on PBS' News Hour with Jim Lehrer is available online.

President Barack Obama called the white police sergeant James Crowley on Friday afternoon and made a surprise appearance in the White House briefing room as he tried to defuse the mounting controversy over his comment that the white police acted stupidly by arresting a Harvard professor at his home.

Katie Holmes performed a tribute to Judy Garland's Get Happy for FOX TV Show So You Think You Can Dance which aired Thursday night.

The live broadcast of the Century Solar Eclipse provided by Sina had attracted more than 30 million viewers in three hours, with the latest record breaking peak concurrent users of over 3.2 million, which is much more than the one million viewers of the 2008 Olympics, Broad net Beijing reported on Wednesday.

Toshiba on Monday introduces new lines of Digital Media Frames, not just a photo frame; it supports audio and video as well.

MUZU.TV, an Irish-based video website, has signed a licensing deal with the agency behind the world's leading independent music labels, giving it access to footage from the Arctic Monkeys to Radiohead.

Start-up ooVoo is hoping to take on everybody from Skype, the Internet telephony arm of eBay, to Cisco Systems with a new video conferencing offer for small businesses.

A film documenting a group of clandestine reporters secretly filming the 2007 street protests in Myanmar and crackdown by the military junta hit cinemas in Britain this week to warm applause from the critics.

Microsoft Corp and Yahoo Inc are close to a long-discussed search and online advertising deal, which could be announced in the next week.