Yahoo Signs up Ad Deal with 94 Newspapers

Yahoo Inc exposes a new plan to add 94 newspapers to its online advertising consortium, comprising the Chicago Sun-Times. The deal with Sun-times incorporates 70 of its other newspapers as in the Chicago area. These 94 newspapers bring the consortium’s total of 800 by now. However, terms of the deals are not yet announced.

Additionally to the Sun-Times, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (owned by Journal Communications), the Akron Beacon Journal and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin (owned by Black Press Ltd) as well join the group that are selling online advertising across newspaper Web sites using the job board’s technology.

Sunnyvale, California-based Yahoo further proclaimed this week about new advertising contract with Wal-Mart Stores and CBS. Yahoo would become the elite reseller of display advertising on Walmart.com and as well would stream CBS’ television shows online.

"Google-Killer" Wikia is far behind

Last January, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales launched a new search engine named Wikia Search, a supposed “Google-killer” that intended to edit and filter search results with the same techniques that made Wikipedia a Web phenomenon-the hand-outs of thousands of volunteers.

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Real-Time Quotes of NASDAQ now offered via Google

The NASDAQ exchange stated this week that it has started providing real-time quotes to traders by means of a collection of partners, comprising Google and CNBC. The quotes would be free on Google Finance, according to Matthew Simmons, a Google “market data gnome,” stated in a blog post.

Normally, quotes are late by several minutes in free services such as Google, with only for-pay services providing the real-time quotes, which brokerages are privy to. The holdup could mean that smaller investors cannot actually act in response as fast to trends in a stock price, costing them money.

“This is an important, and in many ways, overdue development in the U.S. securities markets,” stated Adena Friedman, Executive Vice President, NASDAQ OMX, in a statement. “With universal access to the Internet and the real-time nature of the web, investors need real time data, and now they don’t have to pay for it, thanks to CNBC, Google, The Wall Street Journal Digital Network and Xignite.”

Google Earth can now be used from browser

Google recently announced that Google Earth application could now be used from the browser directly, in its place of having it download and install the desktop application. “Google further as well launched an JavaScript API, which lets you cooperate with the globe, draw markers, put in layers or incorporate with Google Maps.’The Google Earth Plug-in and its APIs let you implant the full power of Google Earth and its 3D rendering abilities into your web pages.’ Google LatLong blog stated that each Google Maps mashup could certainly take benefits of the new 3D view by adding up a single line of code. ‘Our goal is to open up the entire core of Google Earth to developers in the hopes that you’ll build the next great geo-based 3D application, and change how we view the world.’ Blog Stated.