MTV Laying Off 5.5% of Staff; Savings to Go to Newer Ventures
MTV Networks plans to dismiss 250 people, or 5.5 percent of its staff of 4,500, the network?s chief executive told employees.

MTV videos to be available to all Internet users (Reuters)
Reuters - You won't find clips of comedian Jon Stewart's "Daily Show" and MTV's "Pimp My Ride" on YouTube any more, but Viacom Inc. is laying the groundwork for its videos to be available to hundreds of thousands of other sites.

Google takes hits from YouTube's use of video clips (USATODAY.com)
USATODAY.com - LOS ANGELES - Internet search giant Google is under fire from Hollywood, mostly about the many unlicensed clips available on its YouTube video-sharing site. The studios have become more aggressive in demanding removal of the clips, and in a shot at Google itself, several entertainment companies have filed a lawsuit against two website owners over their use of Google's highly profitable search-advertising network.

The Myth of a Single Vendor Platform (E-Commerce Times)
Master data management is a new approach to an old problem in companies: Merge all of the disparate, often conflicting and redundant records on customers and transactions into one authenticated master file. Industry analyst firm IDC is predicting the MDM market to grow to $10.4 billion by 2009, with a compound annual growth rate of 13.8 percent.