MTV doesn't show much more than reality TV programming these days, so video-sharing site Vevo is looking to fill that void. Already armed with the video libraries of record labels Universal and Sony, word comes today that EMI is on the verge of signing with Vevo as well. That would leave Warner Music Group as the lone holdout among major labels.
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Video site Vevo close to signing EMI
Behind last night's Bing outage
Google adds streaming news to Google Finance
CNET News reporter Ina Fried talks about what a Microsoft Bing app for the iPhone might look like. Plus, we run down other headlines of the day, including an official announcement of the Comcast/NBC Universal deal and some good news for online retailers.
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Comcast snags NBC Universal to build $37 billion venture
ComScore: So far, online holiday sales are up
Study: 'Digital abuse' hits half of youth
Google Earth peers into California's eco-future
Google wants to unclog Net's DNS plumbing
Phone photo quality interests Google, Microsoft
Bing's iPhone plans (and more)
Bing Maps Beta: Very cool, but limited
In today's podcast: McAfee finds that Cameroon's .cm extension is the riskiest domain, as cybercrooks take advantage of a commonly mistyped version of ".com;" Psystar stops selling its Mac clones; AT&T gives up on its Verizon ad lawsuit; and more of today's tech news.
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Comcast poised to get NBC Universal
McAfee uncovers riskiest domains
FCC's plans take from Peter to pay Paul
Psystar ceases sales of Mac clones
Spring Design Nook injunction denied, but battle's still on
AT&T gives up on Verizon ad lawsuit
Intel hopes 48-core chip will solve new challenges
Chevy Volt to cruise into Calif. next year
Comcast is on a roll this week. On Tuesday it began its public pilot of a bandwidth monitoring system for its customers to figure out exactly how much they're downloading each month. This comes a little more than a year after the company announced it would be capping users at 250GB per month.
More importantly, reports say that General Electric and Vivendi have reached a tentative agreement that helps pave the way for Comcast to buy NBC Universal. If, or rather when, that deal is sealed, Comcast would expand its media reach outside of its service roots into being a content provider of its own.
Today's episode runs 7:38.
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Report: GE, Vivendi reach deal to clear NBC sale
Comcast beta launches bandwidth meter
Psystar said to have deal with Apple
Prime time for YouTube? Google wants to stream TV, for a fee
Michael Jackson tops Google, Yahoo search in 2009
DARPA's latest challenge: Locate these 10 balloons
This year, you can stalk Santa from your car
The holiday shopping season has begun. The Friday after Thanksgiving, and the Monday after the Thanksgiving weekend, are major indicators of the health of the economy for many retailers. To discuss how things are doing so far, we have with us in the studio CNET reporter Erica Ogg, who covers consumer electronics and retail.
In other news: The CrunchPad is no more; the Barnes & Noble Nook will hit stores later than expected; and the Large Hadron Collider sets a new record.
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Click away: Holiday Web shopping bounces back
Barnes & Noble Nook to hit stores later than expected
The CrunchPad is dead (TechCrunch)
eBay fined $2.5 million in French perfume case
Latest Firefox beta offers file-handling feature
CERN's collider sets proton speed record
A quick rundown of the top stories we're following as we head into the holiday weekend, including: New Google search UI gets colorful, and Buffalo seems to have won the race to be first to ship a USB 3.0 drive.
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Crude Michelle Obama image dumped by site owner
New Google search UI brings color, search options
Buffalo ships first USB 3.0 hard drive
Clearwire raises another $920 million
Mozilla issues near-final Thunderbird 3
In today's podcast: Google will start tracking TiVo viewing data to help advertisers see how commercials get seen in the day of the DVR; four days after the CERN particle accelerator was turned back on, it's making quick progress; Intel overhauls its Atom processor for Netbooks; AT&T follows Verizon's lead with mobile broadband plans; and more of today's top tech news.
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CERN particle accelerator sees first collisions
HP reports in-line earnings, raises 2010 outlook
Google to track TiVo viewing habits
Major Intel chip upgrade coming to Netbooks
AT&T offers prepaid wireless broadband
It appears that Rupert Murdoch was serious about wanting to remove his company's media properties, such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, Fox News, and Hulu, from the Google search index. Murdoch's News Corp. has reportedly initiated discussions with Microsoft over a plan to have the media company's Web content essentially delisted from the world's largest search engine, Google, but included on Microsoft's Bing, in exchange for payment from Microsoft. Microsoft has reportedly approached other media giants about having their content removed from Google search results as well.
CNET is preparing an update on this development and we'll have more news later today.
Also on the podcast: No app store apologies from Apple; a dangerous, if rare, iPhone worm; "smartbooks" to take on netbooks; and editors begin to leave Wikipedia.
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Report: Microsoft may help News Corp. delist sites
Schiller: No apologies for App Store approval process
Another iPhone worm, but this one is serious
E-tailers snagged in marketing 'scam' blame customers
Will the 'smartbook' be a better Netbook?
Dell Mini 3i smartphone ready for China launch
It's been a bad week for Nokia's research and development division, which had more than 300 of its staff laid off this week. The news was a little better for Skype, which detached from its eBay owners and netted a $2.75 billion valuation. Also, Facebook's video hosting is now the third most popular video hosting site on the Web, though it still lags far behind leader YouTube. Hear more about these stories and others in today's episode.
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Nokia to lay off up to 330 R&D staffers
eBay sets Skype loose at $2.75 billion valuation
Facebook becomes third most popular video site
Twitter's geotagging API goes live
Cisco launches iPhone security app
Town to photograph every car that enters and leaves
Today, Google released the source code for its Chrome OS project and gave the public the first real look at how the new operating system for Netbooks will work. CNET reporter Tom Krazit calls in from Google headquarters to give us the scoop.
Also in today's podcast: a computer glitch at the FAA caused nationwide flight cancellations and delays; Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says Windows 7 is selling better than any previous version of Windows; and AOL looks to shed about 2,500 workers and its MapQuest division.
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Google releases Chrome OS source code
Computer glitch slows U.S. air travel
Ballmer: Windows 7 selling like hotcakes
AOL: We need to fire 2,500 'volunteers'
AOL to sell MapQuest, maybe to Microsoft?
Yahoo adds photos, tweets to news search
Rafe Needleman is editor of CNET's Webware. He's been covering technology since 1988, and has interviewed thousands of tech execs. He blogs at 
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Erica Ogg keeps up on the latest consumer electronics and PC goings-on as chief correspondent for CNET News' Crave blog.
Jennifer Guevin is assistant managing editor for CNET News and focuses on science and green tech.
Josh Lowensohn writes for Webware.com, CNET's blog about Web applications and
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