YouTube Eyes Paid Subscriptions

YouTube (GOOG) is exploring the possibility of selling subscriptions to access some of its cable content Salar Kamangar -- Google's SVP of YouTube and video -- told Reuters on Thursday. Considering a business model like Netflix (NFLX) and Apple TV (AAPL) the company could start charging for professionally created content such as sports coverage television shows and films. "We don't have anything to announce now. It is something that's really important to a lot of our top existing content creators as well as ones that aren't on YouTube today so we're taking it very seriously and we're thinking about ...