Dec 11 - By Associated Press
When a robber started taking cash from his register over the weekend, Dunkin' Donuts employee Dustin Hoffmann fought back by clobbering the man with a ceramic mug. But Hoffmann admits he was less worried about the stolen cash than how he might look on the video-sharing site YouTube.
Nov 27 - By Associated Press
Questions submitted for Wednesday's CNN-YouTube Republican debate raise issues that range from global warming — a question asked by a snowman — to gun violence to respect for gays.
Nov 5 - By Associated Press
Oprah Winfrey has a talk show, a magazine, a Web site and now a channel on the online video site YouTube.
Oct 15 - By Michael Liedtke, AP Business Writer
Online video leader YouTube has rolled out long-awaited technology to automatically remove copyrighted clips, hoping to placate movie and television studios fed up with the Web site's persistent piracy problems.
Oct 11 - By Associated Press
An obscenity-laced video of a city councilman kicking a Norwegian interviewer out of his office has drawn a bigger audience than he's ever had at City Hall.
Oct 3 - By Michelle Locke, AP Writer
Move over "Leave Britney Alone Guy." And all those cute kitten videos, too. The University of California, Berkeley, is posting course lectures and other campus happenings on YouTube.
Sep 20 - By Associated Press
A Turkish court has ordered the country's telecommunications company to block access to the popular video-sharing site YouTube because of clips the court deems insulting to leading political figures.
Aug 21 - By Anick Jesdanun, AP Internet Writer
Video advertising is coming to YouTube, but it won't be the type common at sites elsewhere. Starting Wednesday, the popular video-sharing site plans to feature semitransparent "overlay" ads at the bottom of selected video clips.
Aug 18 - By Associated Press
The Navy has removed a video from YouTube shot aboard the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan because it shows sailors using safety equipment inappropriately, a Navy spokesman said.
Aug 14 - By Larry Neumeister, AP Writer
YouTube wants to question comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert as part of its defense against claims that it illegally airs Internet snippets of sports and entertainment videos.
Aug 2 - By Hiroko Tabuchi, AP Writer
A coalition of Japanese television, music and film companies slammed YouTube Thursday, saying the online video sharing service was not doing enough to rid the site of cartoons and other clips that infringe on copyrights.
Jul 24 - By Associated Press
Would Jason Bourne dress up as a gas pump for a YouTube video? Probably not. But Matt Damon, who plays him on the big screen, is willing to look silly when it comes to raising awareness about global warming.
Jul 9 - By Paul Elias, AP Biotechnology Writer
Uri Geller became a 1970s superstar and made millions with an act that included bending spoons, seemingly through the power of his own mind.
Jun 19 - By Michael Liedtke, AP Business Writer
Unshaken by its legal problems in the United States, online video leader YouTube will attempt to extend its cultural reach and increase its moneymaking opportunities by programming new channels in nine other countries.
Jun 11 - By Associated Press
YouTube co-founder Steve Chen said on Saturday consumers in many parts of the world will have access to the popular video-sharing Web site on their mobile phones by next year.
May 17 - By Scott Lindlaw, AP Writer
YouTube's co-founders on Thursday challenged the Pentagon's assertion that soldiers overseas were sapping too much bandwidth by watching online videos, the military's principal rationale for blocking popular Web sites from Defense Department computers.
May 11 - By Associated Press
The Thai government abruptly scrapped plans to sue Google after the U.S. company agreed to remove from a Web site video clips deemed insulting to the country's revered king, an official said Friday.
May 7 - By Associated Press
British Prime Minister Tony Blair took to the Internet on Monday to congratulate Nicolas Sarkozy on winning France's presidential election, posting video messages in English and in French — with a plea for patience.
Apr 22 - By Associated Press
Ryan Fitzgerald is unemployed, lives with his father and has a little bit of time on his hands.
Apr 20 - By Jake Coyle, AP Entertainment Writer
It was inevitable that the online video world would offer its take on a crime glimpsed as it unfolded most dramatically via a cell phone camera, carried out by a student who put together a CD-ROM of his manifesto and mailed it to a TV news network.
Mar 26 - By Jake Coyle, AP Entertainment Writer
The video series "Ask a Ninja" and OK Go's treadmill-choreographed music video are among the winners in the first YouTube Video Awards.
Mar 22 - By Anick Jesdanun, AP Internet Writer
Activist groups sued Viacom Inc. on Thursday, claiming the parent of Comedy Central improperly asked the video-sharing site YouTube to remove a parody of the cable network's "The Colbert Report."
Mar 18 - By Jake Coyle, AP Entertainment Writer
Lonelygirl15, OK Go and other YouTube sensations will get an opportunity to walk down a virtual red carpet.
Mar 13 - By Seth Sutel, AP Business Writer
Media conglomerate Viacom Inc. is suing YouTube for $1 billion, claiming that the video-sharing site had built a business by using the Internet to "willfully infringe copyrights on a huge scale."
Mar 9 - By Associated Press
Turkey lifted its ban on YouTube Friday, an official for the country's largest telecommunications firm said, two days after a court ordered the Web site blocked because of videos that allegedly insulted the founder of modern Turkey.