FOX News and Yahoo team up

FOX news will now provide business news video to Yahoo Finance with a new co-branded service known as “FOX Business Now”.

The initiative that exposed today on Yahoo! Finance brings FOX News business programming to the internet’s number financial place, and, which also includes nine two-minute market reports every week day. The agreement between FOX and Yahoo Finance is a very important step that Yahoo has taken towards the growing demand for business news video and it would even more expand market leading position.

Yahoo partners with Reuters on eyewitness pictures

Yahoo Inc., is now in partnership with Reuters, which is inviting the public to contribute eyewitness photos and videos of recent news events. Another latest move also concentrates on spot journalists.

Yahoo is also planning to run selected images displayed by users as a part of topical packages on Yahoo News. Yahoo News currently offers news from dozens of official news society including Associated Press, CNN and Reuters.

Pittsburgh Google office opens

Google had officially opened its Pittsburgh engineering office at Google Pittsburgh on November 17.

This office is situated in the lower part of Collaborative Innovation Center, it’s a four story building constructed in 2005 to give place and lab space for businesses for collaborating purpose with Carnegie Mellon. The purpose of the recent renovations was just to customize the space in Google’s requirements.

Google comes with teacher’s online software

Google is up with its new software applications in kindergarten through high school classrooms, where kids who have knowledge with web are more likely to experiment with different technology.

Mr. James McQuivey, a former Forrester Research analyst says; “It’s the perfect place for them to target the coming generation of computer users”. The free software approach poses confront to Microsoft Corp, whose actual success revolves around sales of its all time dominated windows operating system and office suite.

Google now Invests in Indoor Mesh

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG – message board) is now working with few early-stage startup Meraki Networks Inc. on indoor mesh technology. Google invested in Meraki, the search giant said to have “relatively small” six-figure investment in Mountain View, Calif., start up. According to a source Google would test the box with business that is between its Mountain View WiFi mesh coverage areas.

MSN up with New Holiday Site

MSN has recently launched the holiday site, MSN Holiday Challenge at http://www.msnholidaychallenge.com, concentrating on this holiday season in style with the help of four celebrities who would also share video clues with consumers for a chance to win a share of $100,000 (U.S.) in cash prizes.

This great promotion gives the customers an opportunity to win grand prizes of $50,000, $20,000 or $10,000 or even daily cash prized with MSN online content scavenger hunt. The promotion has started and last on 20, Dec 2006. Rules of this contest can be found on http://www.msnholidaychallenge.com/rules.

A Deeper Look into Yahoo! Panama

This year’s Las Vegas PubCon, Yahoo! fully exposed its new “Panama” search marketing platform. Mona Elesseily of Page Zero Media had a chat with WebProNews Mike McDonald about Panama and what more changes and additions advertiser could expect from the new software. Mona is one of the finest authorities on the Yahoo! search marketing platform, and is the creator of Unauthorized Yahoo! Search Marketing Handbook.

ANA Providing Yahoo With Research Numbers

Yahoo has launched with a new advertising portal ANA (Association of National Advertisers), that provide with report summaries and other reports and data collected on variety of topics to the site.

It’s Yahoo’s toughest site and a place for guest editorials and showcases of industry award winners. This site will include the points of view of seasoned professionals and the learned commentators that are out there.

Yahoo! To Create Brand Mini Sites

Yahoo Inc. is now planning to launch mini-sites for more than 100 popular brands in 2007, and it will be the collection of social media sites called “brand universe”.

This site within Yahoo will serve as an online social destination for fans of games, movies and other products to congregate and share and connect with each other. Yahoo is now hopping that their brand universe will drive more traffic and advertising revenue to sites.

Google Spreadsheets API now available

Google Spreadsheets is up with its newest application to use called GData API. Its library allows programs to use Google products even outside Google environment. According to Google, with this new Spreadsheets API you’ll be able to:

• view spreadsheets
• edit/delete content in spreadsheets
• request a list of existing spreadsheets
• query a spreadsheet’s content