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Yahoo! Launches YouTube Competitor

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the glad-to-forget-realplayer dept.

prostoalex writes "Yahoo! launched Yahoo! Video last night, allowing users to upload, share and tag their videos. For Windows users the player uses the standard Yahoo! Player, while Mac and Linux users get video encoded in Flash. Yahoo! joins a highly competitive field of video services currently led by MSN Video, YouTube and Google Video. The Associated Press reports on the Yahoo! Video launch as well."

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  1. Re:This ought to be interesting by Red+Flayer · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Over $1M/month now and climbing. "

    So? What's $1000 a month? How much was their last round of funding? Oh, you mean $1MM a month... ouch.

    /Sorry, accounting pedant here.

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