Business Breakdown: Following SOPA Protests, Feds Shut Down Megaupload

Megaupload, the Hong Kong-based website that allowed users to store and share large files—including movies, music and television shows—was shut down by the Department of Justice yesterday for copyright violations. Four company executives—including the appropriately named founder Kim Dotcom (Schmitz, before he changed his name)—have been arrested, and $50 million in assets were seized; Megaupload ...

Netgear pitches itself as a household name. Good luck

Netgear's new devices plug wireless gaps in the home network, from signal extenders to media-storage devices. But they're still not "stupid obvious."

Woman Accused of Streaming Herself Live Sexually Assaulting 5 Year-Old Cried in Court

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey waitress cried in court as she heard a prosecutor describe allegations that she sexually assaulted a 5-year-old she was baby-sitting and streamed video of the abuse online.

Was YouTube Live a Success? That Depends.

Excerpt: After much talk about experimenting with live streaming video, YouTube dipped its toe in the water on the weekend, with a much-hyped event (at least in blogosphere terms) called YouTube Live, featuring some of the "cewebrities" that have emerged on YouTube over the p …

Chen: YouTube live video will launch this year

Although streaming video on the Web is nothing new, it has yet to make its way onto YouTube. But that could change over the next 10 months, co-founder Steve Chen tells Sarah Meyers in a Pop17.com video report posted Thursday.