Watching for the Next YouTube

Online upstarts, some backed by major media companies, are looking to take Google's video site off the air.

Dec 27 2007

Google Vision

Two years ago, the internet giant bought YouTube for $1.65 billion. The critics sneered-but they may have been wrong.

Sep 18 2008

Zuckervision

Jeff Zucker is trying to reinvent broadcast television. Not that he has any other choice.

Aug 13 2008

Google to Microsoft: Game On

The Chrome browser is nothing. Microsoft should really worry about Windows—Google's true target.

Sep 02 2008

YouTube Anonymous

Google and Viacom reach privacy deal on user data.

Jul 15 2008

YouTube to Start Ads on Its Site

Google's challenge: Selling ads, while keeping viewers.

Aug 22 2007

Music Must-Dos

Wired.com assembles a list of the world's 10 hottest digital music websites.

Jul 07 2008

Killing the Studios!

Celebrities cut out the middleman.

Dec 17 2007

YouSued

As copyright suits go, Viacom v. YouTube is about as big as they get: a $1 billion claim, ­charging YouTube with unlawfully showing Viacom cable-TV programs like SpongeBob SquarePants. Below, a briefing on the case, which was filed in March.

Aug 13 2007

Michael Arrington

TechCrunch is the talk of Silicon Valley. Now the founder of the blog talks about the battle between Microsoft and Yahoo, Barry Diller, and why he says Gawker Media’s Nick Denton is “amoral.”

Feb 29 2008

The Pirates Can't Be Stopped

A teenager hacked into the outfit charged with protecting companies like Sony, Universal, and Activision from online piracy—the most daring exploit yet in the escalating war between fans and corporate giants. Guess which side is winning.

Jan 14 2008

Error 404. You've Been Hacked.

Research shows that internet service providers that show their own ad-filled error pages are creating a security hole for hackers.

Apr 21 2008

Would You Give This Kid $500,000?

Just 19, Jared Kim had no problem finding money for his tiny internet startup. With more venture capital available than ever, even grade-schoolers can get a piece of the action.

Nov 19 2007

Jeffrey Bewkes

The Time Warner C.E.O. talks about the financial turmoil, AOL, deals, and his push to win respect from Wall Street.

Sep 16 2008

Web of Lies

What to do when a competitor smears you anonymously on the Web? Call in the cybersleuths.

Jul 09 2008

Don't Mess With Mamma

The S.E.C. charges Mark Cuban with insider trading in shares of Mamma.com in 2004.

Nov 17 2008

Google's Goof

Did the Web search giant break its "Don't Be Evil" motto with its latest product release?

Apr 08 2008

MySpace and Friends Need to Make Money. And Fast.

No one's figured out yet how to make money off of social networking sites.

Mar 26 2008

Bad Luck or Bad Management?

The F.A.A. says its most recent computer snafu was something "we've not seen before." But the same system failed just last week. And again last year. Is the agency "out of control"?

Aug 27 2008

Having Fun, Making Money

A startup turns the entire Web into a game, aiming to steer players toward and away from certain sites. Will advertisers play along?

Jun 19 2008

Will Ferrel and the End of Media as We Know It

Hollywood's screwball king and the venture capital firm Sequoia Capital are rewriting the rules of the entertainment business. But will Funny or Die survive?

Dec 17 2007

Can Dell Save Dell?

Slowing sales, design glitches, a rocky start at retail. Founder Michael Dell faces problems he never had to address during his first stint running the company.

Jun 16 2008

Skip an Ad? Not if You Picked It.

Ads created and selected by viewers is a Web phenomenon. Can it translate to older media?

May 06 2008

All Talk?

Combine talk radio with blogging and you just might have the next internet fad.

Feb 26 2008

A New Frontier for Mobile Phones

 The mobile software age has arrived with Nokia's decision to release Symbian under an open source license.

Jun 25 2008

Sprint's WiFinale

Sprint-Clearwire get big funding for a turbo-wireless venture.

May 06 2008

Drama Queen

Basic cable is breaking the broadcast networks' stranglehold on the creation of hit original shows, and Christina Wayne, for one, is transforming plain-vanilla channels into must-watch TV.

Sep 02 2008

McCaw's Next Bet

The telecommunications pioneer wouldn't let a small thing like two big company failures slow him down. He's back with a new plan to remake the nation's wireless landscape.

Jun 07 2008

Saving TV

The near-total control of mass culture by three omnipotent networks: gone. If this is the end of television as we know it, maybe it's also the beginning of something else. 

Aug 13 2008

Nothin' for Money

Bands are striking a posture of "MPFreeism" to appear digitally hip—without actually giving it all away.

Oct 31 2008