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The rumor of Google acquiring YouTube went quite fast into reality, you didn’t expect us slackers to catch up. Anyway, major valleywag blog TechCrunch reports:

Moments ago the deal was confirmed. In their largest acquisition to date, Google has acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion in an all stock transaction. Both companies have approved the deal, which should officially close in the fourth quarter.

You can listen to Google’s CEO and board’s meeting right now live at http://investor.google.com/webcast.html, replays will be available later if you didn’t make it.

One month after the rumors about the Apple iPhone started to spread massively around the net. The iPhone Concept blog now contains over 35 reader-submitted concepts, and the list is growing weekly, some of them might actually be the upcoming iPhone.

iTv was unveiled by Apple last week as a device that allows streaming your downloaded movies & video to your TV via wireless technology. Coming next year, the iTV is expected to dominate the market at a price tag of $299.

According to Newsweek, if negotiations are successful, users of the iTv will have access to thousands of videos submitted to Google video via a simple menu item.

A total of 21, that’s the number of partnerships AOL now has after signing deals with 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures, Universal Pictures, and Warner Bros.

Through AOL Video, popular movie titles - from recent DVD releases to a large selection of movies representing all genres will be available for purchase and download with prices ranging from $9.99 to $19.99 per movie. Once downloaded, movies can be viewed offline as well as on other PCs and compatible portable devices.

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Now there’s a bright idea - no need to get out of your home, no waiting in the store line, no late fees, and you can keep the DVDs for as long as you want if you pay your monthly subscription. But that’s not all - you can easily manage your account online: ordering movies, queue up your next rentals and more. Return postage? $0.00.

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For those of you who don’t trust Google to account their emails, or just have something too valueable there to lose, this is a very useful how-to guide on using Outlook for backing up your Gmail account.

Helio is offering quite a tempting deal to anyone that can open a myspace account, which is pretty much anyone - get yours MySpace-compatable Helio phone with no without the standard 2-year contract and with no termination fee.

This means you can drop them pretty much whenever you want, but i know that if you’re the average teen, you would very much like a MySpace accessible phone.

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Following it’s reported success, Reddit.com, an online news aggregator has started an advertising campaign with Gawker Media. As you can see below, large 160×600 banners are appearing at very popular blogs like Gizmodo & Kutaku.

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Microsoft is known for their unfortunate, or rather expected technical problems when the company representatives try to introduce one of its’ programs, this time it was Windows Vista Speech Recognition.

With only 44,000 users using the program and less than 1% market share in the instant messaging industry, Google attempts to punch back with three new features on Google Talk, one of them being the ability to leave voicemail to your contacts and have them contact you later, the other two are ‘file transfers’ and ‘music status’ which are available in other programs as well.