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Viacom’s MTV Networks as well as Apple Corps, a company formed by The Beatles in 1968, will unveil a global music “project” on Thursday, the two companies announced today.

No specific details were given, but the nature and type of announcement hints to a global music store the two companies may have in the works. For MTV it would be the third major initiative to gain some traction in the digital music market after a failed cooperation with Microsoft as well as the Rhapsody America joint venture with Real Networks and Verizon, which also never evolved into a serious business for MTV.

YouTube will begin offering feature films produced by at least one of the biggest Hollywood movie studios possibly as early as next month, according to an executive with a major entertainment company.

For months, Google, YouTube's parent company, has been talking to the major film companies about launching an ad-supported, streaming movie service, two execs with knowledge of the negotiations told CNET News. "It's not imminent," said one of the executives. "But it's going to happen. I would say you can expect to see it, if all goes well, sometime within the next 30 to 90 days."

Think you've got the best YouTube video of a person falling down a flight of stairs, or a cat battling a printer? Advertise it with YouTube's new Sponsored Videos service.

The new service lets you select a few keywords you'd like to associate with your video, like "falling down" or "cat battles." You then set a budget to decide how much you're willing to pay to have your video promoted; you can determine whether you want to spend 10 cents or $20.

How this much-loved brand can rise from the ashes

More than just a browser developer, Netscape was once synonymous with the web. Go to netscape.com now, though, and you're quietly redirected to AOL's front page.

There's not a single crumb of the old brand left, just a double portion of bland portal pie.

What a terrible waste. Netscape - more than any brand or browser - was the little company that could. It took on Microsoft head to toe and looked like it could win.

This is a great article for entrepreneurs out there. It really demonstrates how committed you have to be over a period of time to build a company. We are jaded with the YouTube 18 month success stories. But this is not the norm. Most companies take commitment, time, passion, and in a lot of cases the willingness to walk the line of bankruptcy.