Google may sink $50M into music video service Vevo

In what would become a very expensive game of musical chairs, Google is interested in making a $50 million investment into music video service Vevo.

8 alternative Grand Theft Auto V trailers to ease 8 months of waiting

8 fan-made GTA V trailers should help ease the pain of an 8 month wait for the game to release. Minecraft, Lego bricks, Battlefield 3, old GTA games, Mario, and the real-life streets of Rio De Janeiro. They're all represented here.

Punt your TV: The Super Bowl is better online (guide)

Want to improve your 2013 Super Bowl experience? We've devised a comprehensive game day guide for football fans and all their apathetic friends and family members.

Survey: Facebook is the most stress-inducing social media site (and, paradoxically, the most positive)

Facebook causes Americans more stress than any other social network. But it's also the network with the most positive effect on our moods.

YouTube may begin offering paid channel subscriptions

A new crop of television-quality video content may be heading to YouTube soon -- but not unless you pay for it.

Soundrop brings music ‘listening rooms’ to Facebook

Social music service Soundrop announced this morning that it has launched listening rooms on Facebook, which means that artists -- and fans -- can create social music spaces where they can listen to music together, chat, and vote on what they want to hear next.

Codecademy adds API training with YouTube, NPR, Bit.ly, and 6 other services to help new devs build actual products

Today Codecademy is launching a new partnership with nine companies to help budding developers learn APIs and create actual functioning sites, projects, and even products.

YouTube adds ‘TV remote’ feature to tons of smart TVs & set-top boxes

YouTube is rolling out a new feature that will allow users to transform their mobile devices into a YouTube remote, the site announced today.

YouTube 2012: year in review (infographic)

YouTube released its annual yearly review early this morning, highlighted what the site's 800 million visitors are watching and uploading. And there's more than a few milestones in the data.

YouTube rolls out new design focused on subscriptions & channels

YouTube is rolling out a brand new look on its website that emphasizes its growing channel-based ecosystem of content creators.

Move over, in-flight movies: YouTube content coming to Virgin America flights

YouTube has reached a new agreement with commercial airline Virgin America that will bring web video content to passengers during flights, the site announced today.

YouTube finally updates iOS app with iPad, iPhone 5, and better AirPlay support

Google has released a major update of its iOS YouTube app, and it now supports the iPad and the iPhone 5′s longer display.

YouTube adds more automatically translated language captions to videos

YouTube rolled out a update to its captions feature today that allows you to automatically translate video captions, meaning you're no longer restricted to watching content produced specifically for your primary language.

The Wii U gets a YouTube app to bolster Nintendo’s living room ambitions

The Wii U isn't all about fun and games. It's also about videos about fun and games.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Wii U, Call of Duty: Black Ops II, Xbox Live turns 10

If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.

YouTube rolls out new Wii app just in time for the Wii U launch

Following its strategy of landing on a variety of streaming devices, YouTube today launched a brand new app for the Nintendo Wii game console.

YouTube wins news innovation award — the day before Israel broadcasts an assassination almost live

YouTube has become a massive news destination, YouTube chief executive Salar Kamangar said in his acceptance speech, with 7000 hours of news-related footage uploaded every single day.

YouTube Android app update adds second screen features to Google TV

Google has added some awesome new features to its YouTube Android app today that greatly increase the Google TV experience.