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YouTube in discussions over paid-for feature length films

The New York Times reports that YouTube has been in discussions with Lionsgate Entertainment, Sony and Warner Brothers in the hope of securing a licensing deal to host feature length films on its video sharing site. Sony and Warner Brothers have thus far declined to comment, but Lionsgate spokesman Peter Wilkes stated that the company is keeping its options open for expanding the availability of its catalogue

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Oracle’s multi-billion dollar takeover of Sun Microsystems has moved a step closer to completion after it received approval from the US Department of Justice. An offer of $7.4 billion was tabled in April this year.

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A licensing disagreement has put the future of Skype in doubt

eBay has announced that it may have to close down Skype because of a dispute over licensing with Joltid, the founders of the service. Skype was bought from creators Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom in 2005 for $2.6billion but - rather clumsily - this deal did not include eBay owning a major piece of the technology that powers the software. Ever since, eBay has been licensing the much-needed technology from Joltid but this agreement has recently been revoked by the Skype founders.

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Microsoft and Yahoo! seal the deal and announce partnership

Earlier today we reported that speculations were rife with the possibility of long-time rivals Microsoft and Yahoo! finally striking up a collaborative deal. Well, confirmation has now been released and the rumours are indeed correct - the two online colossuses have agreed to put the past behind them and announced a unifying move that will entail the pair challenging current industry sovereign Google . The new deal will involve Yahoo! abandoning its old search engine in favour of Bing, the new ‘decision engine’ recently released by Microsoft that has been making waves in the search sphere for some time now

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Microsoft and Yahoo! seal the deal and announce partnership

Earlier today we reported that speculations were rife with the possibility of long-time rivals Microsoft and Yahoo! finally striking up a collaborative deal.

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Microsoft and Yahoo! seal the deal and announce partnership