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YouTube owner Google is giving the video site a high-class makeover, launching up to 20 premium video channels in a bid to boost revenue. But can a site people think of as the home of laughing babies and funny pets become a destination for web surfers seeking video worth paying for?

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Hulu reached an agreement with Viacom that will once again allow the video site to air episodes of Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show" and Stephen Colbert's "The Colbert Report," 11 months after the shows were pulled from the site.

Hulu CEO Jason Kilar threatened to leave the video site last fall over a dispute about its subscription pricing, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Earlier this week, Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., warned that if the Comcast acquisition of NBC Universal went through, the company may pull NBC's programming from Netflix. Federal regulators approved the deal Tuesday.

The hour's-a ticking-down for Blockbuster. The movie rental retailer has run out of money and needs more in order to come up with a restructuring plan, but can it ever really be relevant again, or profitable? Blockbuster did just get another extension to file -- it was supposed to do so in...

Rdio was envisioned and launched by Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, who have had a dry spell since starting Skype. Rdio, however, could be another smash, thanks to a confluence of trends that the duo appears to be picking up on.

While inflation may have pushed product prices ever skyward over the past decade, the oughts weren't a complete drain on consumers' wallets. In fact, looking back, many of the innovations of the past 10 years were geared toward saving us money. Think about it: When was the last time you were...

Netflix is not going to tinker with the brand it has built around delivering DVDs by mail in iconic red envelopes, but in order to fit the changing demands of its users -- and pay the cost of shipping enough stacks of DVDs every week to eclipse Mount Everest -- Netflix is changing its rates. The...

Online video portals that offer mainstream shows -- including Hulu, Comcast's Fancast, AOL's Slashcontrol and AT&T's U-verse -- don't meet the standards as broadcast television for protecting kids from inappropriate content, according to a new report from the Parents Television Council.