Located in China, KongZhong Corp has signed deal to supply contents such as news and advertising to MSN China. KongZhong is a very famous wireless content provider. Besides these, the provider operates Internet portal Kong.net and MSN will offer it a new instant messaging service.

On July 2 Google finalized the agreement to obtain web-based voice startup GrandCentral Communications. GrandCentral, which has moved up approximately $4 million from Minor Ventures, permits users to have one combined telephone number. This advancement can make calls to single phone number ring different places – work, home, mobile and VoIP. This technology is also customizable so that only few phones ring from certain callers.

Yahoo recently commenced a novel type of online behavioral ads that offers targeters the option to reach highly targeted customers with outstanding information. Yahoo’s SmartAds target customers based on their conduct, place and demographic characteristics.

Yahoo! soon launched Rivals.com national college sports news and recruiting website. This site is paid by the college sport lovers to get the desired information. Previously, 185,000 subscribers paid $99.95 yearly or $9.95 as monthly fees. With Yahoo! Taking over it more subscribers are expected. Latest sports features and quizzes are daily updates.

The Microsoft Corp. proclaimed the commencement of the MSN portal in Russia on 29th June 07. This portal is expected to become one of the three top servers on the Russian Internet within 3 years. The news content for this portal will be made available by Kommersant Publishing House, Reuters and AP. MSN Russia will permit utilizers to read news, generate blogs, swap messages, send and receive e-mail and search the web.

Microsoft’s MSN division is getting ready to bring hot events never seen before in Internet era. This will be launched in another two weeks. It is expected that Live Earth will make a boom among the viewers. This can be viewed in 24 markets globally; 5 million streams can be served as expected.

A recent study at Penn state research institute reveals that web searchers usually prefer the logo Yahoo! And not the search engine Google. This study was among 32 participants and the researchers grabbed the information from four different search engines; Google, MSN, Live Search, Yahoo! And one was specifically developed and designed for studies. On illustrating differences, there was no major changes found, finally the conclusion was “only emotional branding matters”

Google Earth outreach now permits non-profit organizations to get advantage from satellite viewing technology. Google Earth Outreach assists organizations make use of the satellite-based viewer to utmost effect, utilizing it to make map layers to get information crossways rapidly and efficiently.

It lets non-profit groups make use of wide online guides and other digital resources to get the most out of the famous software, and launch forums to promote the sharing of ideas and media with likewise-focused organizations.

The very famous Yahoo! finalized an accord of strategic mobile partnership with Maxis Communications at CommunicAsia 2007. This will allow users to search for and get fine results and quick answers on their personal mobiles. Yahoo! oneSearch gives customers access to news, web images, financial information, weather conditions, Flicker and both web and mobile websites.

Google is allowing users of its Chinese site to locate news by initially searching for images available inside the articles. The function was jointly built-up by Google’s lately established engineering centre in Shanghai, and its centre in California, spokeswoman Jin Cui said on Wednesday.