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Reuters – Warner Bros. Television Group said Thursday that its content will be distributed through branded channels on Dailymotion, Joost, Sling Media, TiVo and Veoh Networks.

NewsFactor – In an on-stage conversation with New Yorker writer Ken Auletta, Google CEO Eric Schmidt conceded that the search-engine giant doesn’t know how to make money off of YouTube, the popular video-sharing site for which it paid $1.65 billion in 2006.

Reuters – Brad Garrett is making his foray into digital entertainment with “Dating Brad Garrett,” an online reality show he is starring in and executive producing.

AP – Microsoft Corp. and Harrah’s Entertainment Inc. introduced a high-tech interactive bar table Wednesday that lets patrons order drinks, watch YouTube videos, play touch-screen games and even flirt with each other.

USATODAY.com – The growing popularity of digital video recorders is brightening the picture for network TV, which has been buffeted by steady erosion to cable.

USATODAY.com – LOS ANGELES – Wouldn’t it be cool if you could use your cellphone to monitor activities in your home, say, to zoom in for an audio/video check of the baby’s room while you were at work, or even adjust the heat?

AP – There was a moment near the end of “Kung Fu Panda” so satisfying, so achingly adorable, that I wished I’d been secretly taping so as to immediately put it up on YouTube for the world to see.