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With more than one billion unique visitors every month, YouTube asserted last night that the battle between television and the online video giant is over. YouTube claimed victory with six billion views per month. According to the Wall Street Journal, which cited Mark Mahaney's estimates, a stock analyst at RBC Capital Markets,  that YouTube generated about $4 billion in revenue in 2012, up from $2.5 billion in 2011.

Amazon.com said it struck a deal with Fox to offer online video-streaming of the company's movies and television shows.

Netflix, DreamWorks reached a multi-year deal to give Netflix exclusive rights to first-run feature films and television specials for video streaming.

What's the difference between the big screen in your living room, the smaller screen on your laptop or the tiny one in your pocket?

Many worry that Silicon Valley will upend the entertainment industry just like the Internet ravaged the music and newspaper industries. Google revolutionized the way people access information. Now it wants to transform how people get entertainment.

Online video site Hulu could begin testing a paid subscription service as early as later this month, according to people briefed on the plans, a high-profile test of whether consumers will pay to watch television shows online.

Hulu reportedly will introduce a subscription plan as soon as May 24, which would cost $10 per month for access to anything older than the last five episodes of popular TV shows, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Competitor Lin Yu Chun blew away judges on the Taiwanese singing show 'Super Star Avenue' with his version of Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You." He won the $1M prize for his performance and a recording contract and has become a YouTube sensation. British papers have even crowned him the next Susan Boyle.

YouTube, which is already trying out the movie rental business, wants to get into TV too

Television search engine startup Clicker.com has been in private beta for several months, and sees its public launch today. Positioning itself as a “TV Guide for television content online,” Clicker has indexed over 400,000 episodes from 7000 television shows, making it a veritable one stop shop for finding legally-available TV shows online.