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NEW YORK, N.Y. – Sony is buying the video game-streaming company Gaikai for about $380 million in a bid to establish a new cloud-based gaming service.

SAN FRANCISCO – Netflix says its subscribers watched more than 1 billion hours of online video last month as the advent of high-speed Internet connections and high-powered mobile devices change people’s viewing patterns.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Cable channel truTV is putting Shaquille O’Neal on its team with a new series.
NEW YORK, N.Y. – U.S. retail sales of video game hardware, software and accessories fell 29 per cent in June, marking the seventh consecutive month of decline.
PARIS – France’s far-right National Front plans to file a complaint against Madonna after the singer showed a video at a Paris concert that contained an image of the party’s leader with a swastika on her forehead.

NEW YORK, N.Y. – A new study has found that YouTube is emerging as a major platform for news, one to which viewers increasingly turn for eyewitness videos in times of major events and natural disasters.

NEW YORK, N.Y. – A new study has found that YouTube has become a major platform for news, one where viewers are turning for eyewitness videos in times of major events and natural disasters.

OTTAWA – Treasury Board President Tony Clement has been cleared of allegations of unethical conduct in his dealings with two constituents.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – News Corp. is taking a stake in Internet video streaming set-top box maker Roku Inc. and putting one of its senior executives on Roku’s board of directors as it seeks a greater role in distributing video over the Web.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – On the heels of PBS’ hit Mister Rogers video mashup, a second public TV favourite is getting the star treatment.

NEW YORK, N.Y. – The MTV Video Music Award nominations are out, and Rihanna and Drake are leading the pack with five nominations each.
PASADENA, Calif. – NASA’s Curiosity rover has transmitted a low-resolution video showing the last 2 1/2 minutes of its white-knuckle dive through the Martian atmosphere, giving earthlings a sneak peek of a spacecraft landing on another world.

TORONTO – Police are investigating a graphic video posted online that appears to show a man urinating on a sleeping homeless person outside Toronto’s Eaton Centre.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – U.S. retail sales of new video game hardware, software and accessories fell for the eighth straight month in July as the industry continued to look ahead toward the release of new equipment to cure its woes.
FAIR LAWN, N.J. – A New Jersey mother is suing a production company after an instructional breast-feeding video she appeared in was taken by a third party and used to create pornography.
WASHINGTON – The Carlyle Group says it will buy a controlling stake in the photo and video distributor Getty Images from private equity firm Hellman & Friedman in a $3.3 billion deal.
MOSCOW – Given how world famous Pussy Riot has become, people are sometimes surprised to learn that the entire oeuvre of the women’s punk band is made up of six songs and five videos.

VANCOUVER – A Vancouver man who allegedly used a cellphone to videotape himself torturing a kitten has been charged with animal cruelty.

TORONTO – During a medical emergency, every second counts.

MINNEAPOLIS – Warning: This is a story about online cat videos. If you’re among the seemingly tiny minority of the general population not interested in watching a 1-minute clip of a cat in a T-shirt pounding on a keyboard, then move along.

OTTAWA – Sheila Fynes couldn’t sleep most nights this summer, wondering whether she made the right decision in allowing a public inquiry to view a 34-minute military police video of her son’s lifeless body hanging from a chin-up bar in his barracks.

There may be no baby bump to talk about this year, but given its track record, the MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles will surely provide some water cooler moments Thursday.

Here are the winners of Thursday night’s 29th annual MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles:
OAK CREEK, Wis. – A white supremacist who killed a half-dozen people at a Sikh temple in the U.S. last month chased down the first police officer on the scene, pumping round after round into him as he lay wounded behind a parked car, video released Monday showed.