YouTube Is Giving Away $35,000 To Unknown Partners Who Want To Be YouTube Stars

YouTube is giving up to 25 up-and-coming partners, with less than 300,000 subscribers, $35,000 to become the next big YouTube stars.

The initiative, called YouTube NextUp, also includes a four-day "YouTube Creator Camp" and the partners' channel and videos will be promoted on the site.

It makes sense for YouTube to promote its partners as some of them have become millionaires because of their videos. Google's recent acquisition of Next New Networks is also meant to help existing YouTube partners. Next New Networks will act as a management team for partners to make more and better videos.

You can find out more about the YouTube NextUp program here.

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YouTube Is Giving Away $35,000 To Anyone Who Wants To Be A YouTube Star

YouTube is giving up to 25 up-and-coming partners, with less than 300,000 subscribers, $35,000 to become the next big YouTube stars.

The initiative, called YouTube NextUp, also includes a four-day "YouTube Creator Camp" and the partners' channel and videos will be promoted on the site.

It makes sense for YouTube to promote its partners as some of them have become millionaires because of their videos. Google's recent acquisition of Next New Networks is also meant to help existing YouTube partners. Next New Networks will act as a management team for partners to make more and better videos.

You can find out more about the YouTube NextUp program here.

YouTube Told Us Who They Think The Next Big Stars Will Be, Check Them Out Here >>

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San Francisco Doing Everything It Can To Drive Zynga And Twitter Away

San Francisco, unlike most other cities in Silicon Valley, has a 1.5% payroll tax. And even more stunning is that they consider gains on stock options part of payroll, meaning that any San Francisco based company going public or being acquired could get hit with a massive tax bill in the tens of millions of dollars. They've got Twitter jumping through hoops to avoid the tax. The company will be forced to move to a new location in order to get a six year payroll tax break. But only if the Board of Supervisors votes to approve the legislation on Wednesday. The upside is that Twitter employees will have immediate physical access to prostitutes, drugs and weapons - the qualifying area isn't exactly an up and coming neighborhood. The city isn't thanking Twitter for bringing all these high paying jobs to San Francisco, either. Rather, some supervisors don't want the tax break at all, and seem quite willing to see Twitter bail to tax-free Brisbane. Says Supervisor John Avalos: “Who are the [Twitter] investors? Probably some of the wealthiest people in this country. And we are giving them more wealth.” The stupidity of that statement is self evident.

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Business Insider Is Giving Away Three Of The Boxee Box. Enter Now!

When we featured the Boxee Box on Pipeline a few weeks back, it sold out in record time. If you were one of the many readers who missed the deal, we wanted to give you one more shot (actually three shots) to get your hands on one -- for free!  

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Business Insider Is Giving Away Three Of The Boxee Box! Enter Now For Your Chance To Win

When we featured the Boxee Box on Pipeline a few weeks back, it sold out in record time. If you were one of the many readers who missed the deal, we wanted to give you one more shot (actually three shots) to get your hands on one -- for free!  

If you've ever dreamed about cutting the cord on your cable, this is the product to finally make it happen. Boxee delivers all your online content – TV shows, movies, and music – directly to your HDTV in a way that finally makes sense.

And without a keyboard on your coffee table: Boxee emulates the TV-watching experience all the way down to the remote in your hand. As the guys there like to say, “Using a computer keyboard in the living room is like using a microwave in your car: it might be handy, but it just doesn’t fit.” And the timing couldn't be better, as Netflix just arrived on the Boxee Box.

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