Viacom has filed a lawsuit against Google’s video-sharing site, YouTube.

According to Viacom, Google's YouTube permits users to upload over 100,000 video clips from Viacom-owned systems and movie studios, together with BET, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, and Paramount Pictures.

On Thursday, YouTube announced that it would soon start automatically captioning most of the videos available on its website, a development which would open up a large amount of content to people who are suffered from impaired hearing, and also come as the very first step in creating a network of videos which can be subtitled between various languages.

YouTube has managed to make the many millions of videos it hosts more accessible to the deaf and those who are hard of hearing, by adding automatic captions on them.

Popular video streaming website YouTube today introduced a new filter that will enable the parents to control the level of offensive content that can possibly be exposed to their kids, such as videos with graphic violence, sexual content etc. Safety Mode, as YouTube has named it, also hides all comments that are usually displayed under the video that is being viewed by default.

In a move that implicitly hints at Google efforts to make its YouTube site increasingly suitable for feature length films, the Internet search biggie has ‘quietly’ rolled out a new minimalist redesign for the video-player pages of the most popular video-sharing site in the world.

‘Another Day’ - the new Michael Jackson song, which is a group effort with American rocker Lenny Kravitz - has been leaked on the YouTube. Earlier, the late pop star’s ‘This Is It’ track had made its way to the Internet before its official release.

In a noteworthy Thursday announcement, Internet search biggie Google said that, beginning this week, it will launch a singular service that will add automatic, machine-generated captions for YouTube videos.

Providing the news organizations with a new means to solicit, review and rebroadcast videos on their own Web sites, YouTube will Tuesday launch its free "YouTube Direct" tool, especially designed for media-sources interested in obtaining amateur videos of momentous events, including political campaigns, protests and natural calamities.

In an attempt to facilitate the online availability of Univision videos to the fast-growing Hispanic audience in the US population, Google’s subsidiary YouTube and Univision have signed the most “comprehensive” deal thus far for full-length programming. Hispanics, already the biggest US minority, are estimated to constitute 29 percent of the US population by 2050.

A Permanent Secretary for Tax at HM Revenue and Customs, Dave Hartnett, posted a video warning about tax dodging on a video sharing website YouTube, with an attempt to strain the savers with illegal offshore accounts, hence, declaring them as not coming clean.