Google recently announced that the local business owners could now incorporate YouTube videos (ensuring embed option to be turned on) to their listings on Google Maps. Google stated that this move was just a natural extension to its last year’s move to add geotagged YouTube on Google Earth. When video creator set up particular locations for their own videos, those videos would come in view as a unique YouTube layer of Google Maps. Further users could also launch videos on Google Maps from the Photos and Videos tab of the information bubble, which emerges when a user clicks on a particular listing. In addition they could link their video to their business throughout the Google Local Business Center.

Yahoo may be trying hard to stay away from Microsoft in the US market; however their Japanese unit has publicized the decision to embrace Silverlight for improvising the search practice. The new efficient web interface is predicted to be exposed in the upcoming weeks. Yahoo Japan is further planning to use Silverlight in more of their services.

Microsoft Silverlight technology is a very new competitor to Adobe Flash which allows better interactivity on websites. Madison Square Garden Interactive, Tencent, Abertis Telecom, Terra Networks Operations, SBSi, and MNet are some of the other companies that are making use of Silverlight extensively.

Microsoft Corp.’s effort to take over Yahoo Inc. has actually become so tortured it might in turn help Internet search and advertising giant Google Inc. to grow stronger, dejection Microsoft’s main reason for reward the deal in the first place.

“We find this to be a very advantageous situation for Google,” Cantor Fitzgerald analyst Derek Brown said Thursday. “The longer this gets dragged out, the better for Google.” Yahoo indicated it is stimulating for a long-drawn-out battle late Wednesday when a statement and a media leak offered a sight at its convoluted search for alternatives to Microsoft’s bid of more than $40 billion. “The more complicated a deal gets, the more difficult it becomes to satisfy all parties,” Brown said. “And the more complicated the (post-deal) integration gets, the more it favors Google.”

Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) recently announced that its photo-sharing site Flickr.com has introduced video sharing feature, through which expert members could now upload personal video clips and share them online. Flickr’s new video uploading quality would sustain up to 90 seconds of personal video recording recorded with any digital video device comprising still cameras, camcorders and camera phones. The company noted that video on Flickr would further be obtainable in eight languages incorporating English, French, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish and traditional Chinese.

Google had introduced the feature of “Save as PPT” on to its Google Docs. You are now free to save any of your Google Presentation to PowerPoint files. Andrew Chang, marketing manager with Google, Stated, “We believe you should be able to access your presentations however and whenever you want, in whatever format you need. In that vein, today we launched “Save as PPT” which allows you to save presentations as PowerPoint. We now support PDF, PPT, and basic text as export filetypes.”

On the other hand, you could as well share your presentations in many other ways: call collaborators and viewers within the Docs, publish your presentation (and share the exclusive URL to the presentation, or even drive in your presentation on a unique website or blog.”

Yahoo has rejected a three-week deadline offered by Microsoft to agree to a 44.6 billion dollar capture, as the fight between the two giant technologies titans heated up. Yahoo anyhow stated on Monday it was open to a sweet bid from the software giant or another bidder also.

“We continue to believe that your proposal is not in the best interests of Yahoo and our stockholders,” Yahoo’s board chairman Roy Bostock and chief executive Jerry Yang said in a letter to CEO of Microsoft Corporation Steve Ballmer. “We are open to all alternatives that maximize stockholder value. To be clear, this includes a transaction with Microsoft if it represents a price that fully recognizes the value of Yahoo on a standalone basis,” the Yahoo letter said.

The letter came in reply to a challenge issued by Microsoft on Saturday for the Internet giant to agree to its 44.6 billion dollar capture offer in three weeks or face a shareholder proxy fight. Analysts said the conflict of the technology giants appeared to be escalating.