Google and Yahoo: TV Network Killers?
Internet-based companies will disclose plans to conquer TV. | moreNYT: Two ascending Internet giants, Google and Yahoo, are to make plain today that they intend to move aggressively beyond the Internet browser and onto the television screen.
The two companies, already the most popular services for searching and organizing the vast information on the World Wide Web, want to perform the same function for television, which will increasingly be delivered over the Internet. | more
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