uTube India viewers can now purchase and download legal digital music content as the video streaming giant has integrated Flipkart along with Apple’s iTunes and Amazon’s MP3 store with the site.

Vevo collaborated with YouTube back in 2009, and has been a major revenue generator for YouTube. However, it also caused a major change in the number of views of videos from major record labels.

YouTube has released a new iOS app called Capture.

Google rolled out an updated YouTube layout a couple of days back. While the reaction to the new design has been mixed, one aspect of the new YouTube has drawn almost universal ire. YouTube is now left-aligned, much like Google Plus.

Google is now testing out a new design for YouTube, which is inspired from its social networking site Google+. The company has always been experimenting with new designs and features on YouTube, however, it looks like it isn’t done yet.

The war is officially on between Apple and Google with their competing mobile operating system; iOS and Android. Apple recently built their own Mapping system for iOS 6 and removed the integration with Google Maps. However, the most recent update to iOS 6 also drops the YouTube app.

Google today has announced this nifty little feature for YouTube, which will enable users to blur faces within videos itself. This tool maybe highly useful to those who upload newsworthy content on YouTube involving specific people who want to remain anonymous, which might eventually get picked by TV media.

Google Maps, YouTube and WhatsApp for Android has received a major update. Google Maps comes with the offline maps support, while the YouTube app comes with a new UI.

I use YouTube a lot and it is my go-to website to listen to music and watch interesting videos. However, recently all the YouTube videos I watched just showed me a green screen while the videos were playing. This happened in all the browser including Google Chrome, Opera, Firefox and Internet Explorer 9.

YouTube is now providing users with an option to clear viewing and search history of videos in their new interface.

Google has started rolling out a new YouTube app for all Google TV devices. The new app is much faster and smoother than the current version and also brings in quite a lot of new features.

Google has a laughter detection algorithm tries to extract “textual laughter” from the comments section of a YouTube video. Words such as “hahaha”, “hehehe”, “jajaja”, “kekeke” in user comments counts as a strong signal towards the humorous nature of a video.

Google is well known for testing the hell out of even the smallest of changes. When it couldn’t test between two shades of blue, it tested 41 different shades of blue on users to statistically determine which one yields best results. Now, two hawk-eyed Neowin users have spotted a couple of new YouTube features.

YouTube received more than a trillion playbacks in 2011, and Rebecca Black alone managed to rack up more than 180 million views to become the most popular YouTube video of 2011.

YouTube has received a major design that focuses on Channels and Social Media to increase user engagement.