Hulu’s list of 
potential problems keep piling up.
As the bidding war for the streaming video service continues between Yahoo, Google, Amazon and Dish, NBC has launched a new app bringing full-length episodes of select shows to the iPad.
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Christina Aguilera, classic game fanatic
She’s sold more than 50 million albums 
throughout her career, has appeared on countless magazine covers, and currently works as a judge on “The Voice,” one of the hottest new shows on television.
But if you really want to get Christina Aguilera’s competitive juices flowing, challenge her to a game of Galaga.
Auds flock to watch Hulu
YouTube might be the king of the hill 
when it comes to video content on the Internet, but when it comes to premium programming, no one can beat Hulu.
A new report from ComScore finds online audiences watched 19.4 billion minutes on the site last year. That’s nearly twice as much time as was spent watching online video on the sites of ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and the CW, with a combined 9.7 billion minutes in 2010.
Casualty of the NBC merger: A sense of humor
There’s a fun clip that has been running around 
the Internet this week – a time capsule of sorts, back to a more innocent time when the online world was a mystery to people.
Included among those who didn’t quite understand it were Bryant Gumbel and Katie Couric, who discussed it during an airing of the Today show. It was a funny clip that had a lot of people laughing with – not at – the anchors. Today, word came that the person who had leaked the clip had lost their job at NBC.
Google TV suffers another blow
Search giant Google says it wants to take TV into 
the future, but the networks are pretty comfortable with the present. Fox has joined CBS, NBC and ABC (along with Hulu) in blocking its content from appearing on Google TV.
Uses who use the service’s Web browser to access the network’s site will still see the Web page itself, but will receive an error message when they attempt to stream any programming. Typical PC users, of course, still have access to all of the content.
Report: Hulu preps for IPO
Hulu.com may be getting ready to go public.
Reuters reports the Web video service is preparing for an initial public offering and could file the prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission before the end of the year. Morgan Stanley is likely to lead the underwriters.
Read more at Variety’s Technotainment blog
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