This week a US court delivered a landmark ruling that raises questions about internet users’ rights to privacy. The ruling comes from the high-profile and very bitter legal dispute between YouTube and Viacom. In case you are not familiar with the case here is the background. US broadcasting company Viacom alleges that YouTube infringes its [...]

Viacom’s announcement that traffic is substantially up on its various video content sites is dangerous news for YouTube, which was instructed to remove all content belonging to the media producer just over a month ago. According to Google Trends it’s less than a year since YouTube’s traffic overtook that of MTV, Viacom’s most successful website. [...]

While Disney is currently ruling out big Internet partnerships, Viacom is trying to gain ground on Murdoch as he continues to gallop away in the broadcasters online race. Not only is Viacom looking closely at Bebo, but Techcrunch tells us that the media giant is buying Atom Entertainment, home to Atom Films, which highlights short [...]