YouTube selling to Google?
by Michael HoffmanFriday, October 6th, 2006
Google is in talks to buy YouTube… Seems like a no-brainer to me. Google paid $900 million to NewsCorp not to own MySpace, but just to put ads on it. So to pay $1.6 billion (the reported price) for YouTube seems like a slam dunk to me. We will see what happens. Right now YouTube has no business model, and Google will know how to monetize it. Do we want everything to be owned by Google? At what point will they just replace Microsoft as the big company everyone hates?





