Google to Microsoft: kill your YouTube app ‘immediately’

Google has asked Microsoft to remove its homebrew YouTube app from the Windows Store immediately, and requested that it delete the app from Windows Phone users who have already downloaded it.

YouTube opens livestreaming for most channels

YouTube will now let channel owners do it live... streaming, that is.

Watch out, cable TV: YouTube’s paid channel subscription program is official

Well it's official: YouTube is rolling out a new program that allows some of its premium channel partners to charge consumers a monthly subscription fee to gain access to its content.

YouTube rolls out new Trends Map to show the most popular videos in the U.S.

While the subject of "viewer metrics" is typically pretty dull, you can't really say that when it comes to YouTube.

Google nears launch of paid YouTube subscriptions, report says

In its quest to pull in premium content, Google is apparently ready to roll out its first set of paid YouTube channel subscriptions.

Move over C-SPAN, Congress is getting supercharged YouTube channels

It's difficult to connect with our members of congress, who have busy schedules traveling between their hometowns and Washington D.C., but YouTube is trying to make things a bit easier.

Boston Marathon bombings: How tech is helping

As everyone connected to the Internet knows by now, Boston has been the scene of at least three bombings today at the Boston Marathon and the JFK Library. For coverage of that news, Boston.com has a liveblog that it is continuously updating, and CNN has more details and coverage.

Here's what big technology companies are doing in response.

PSY’s latest video hits a record 67 million views in two days … but it’s nasty, not funny

A lot more people, proportionally, dislike this video than Gangnam Style.

YouTube adds a ‘crappy VHS’ mode to its video player

YouTube is known for doing quirky things, such as adding a rainbow loading bar to the original Nyan Cat video or making its website do the Harlem Shake. So its latest gimmick isn't a huge surprise.

YC-backed Hipset’s YouTube network makes celebrities more rich and famous

Today, Y Combinator company Hipset introduced a multichannel YouTube network that helps musicians grow and monetize their online audience.

YouTube joins Facebook in the very exclusive billion monthly user club

Google announced today that YouTube now has over a billion unique visitors every single month. Which means that Google and Facebook have something very rare in common: both have a billion-person social network.

Goats are trending, the Harlem Shake is done, and YouTube is now embedded in Google Trends

Shockingly, Rebecca Black searches spike every week on the day after Thursday and before Saturday.

Vevo TV: MTV as it used to be, leaning back and chilling out

Back to the future? Everything old is new again?

Google may launch YouTube ‘music’ subcriptions, but not to compete with Spotify

YouTube is toying with paid music subscriptions.

YouTube denies NASCAR takedown of horrific Daytona Speedway crash video

With the thousands of automatic takedown notices for illegally uploaded videos flooding Google's inbox, it's nice to know that the legitimately bad requests by media companies aren't blindly approved.