Google wants to buy YouTube?

[Boyd Ostroff]

Wow... think of the possibilities....

http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Stor...oo&siteid=yhoo

"A deal of this size raises the stakes for so-called YouTube look-a-likes, such as Metacafe, Bolt.com and iFilm, as other major players like Yahoo and Microsoft look to expand their capabilities in online video," said Glover Lawrence, managing director of McNamee Lawrence & Co., an investment bank. That wave of buying would, in turn, lift interest in ancillary online video interests, such as video delivery and editing, rights management, video search technologies, and viral advertising, he believes

[Frank Granovski]

Thanks for this news, Boyd. I know I can always get the good stuff on Area 51.