MSN has now announced that it is overhauling its unique travel channel, it offers the users a mix of exclusive content, travel information and also a holiday booking service provided by Expedia.

The revamp site gives better platform to engage with users who travel frequently and book their holidays online. Advertisers would now be able to engage their users on the channel message boards and place branded messaging on the web site.

Yahoo had recently launched a new plan to connect eight million overseas Filipino workers with their families. This global research study stated that about 33 percent of Filipinos already believe that instant messaging applications of Yahoo have helped them improving their relationships with their families.

According to Southeast Asia reported that the Philippines are the third largest contribution to the global Yahoo digital time capsule project. Today there are approximately 14 to 15 million Filipino Internet users, with more than half using Yahoo! services at least once a month. Yahoo! Videos is an added advantage for Filipinos. Yahoo will soon be up with more news and tools that helps family communication.

Yahoo! has recently announced that it would use VSNL’s peering and termination services as a chief global Internet company for further exchange of high quality VoIP traffic on a wide basis and offer premium international retail call termination for Yahoo’s voice services.

Preferably, Yahoo would use VSNL’s International Tele globe voice peering and termination known as Teleglobe VoIPLink to build up interoperability among VoIP networks and terminate traffic any where in the world.

The Internet search giant Google is now offering merchants free usage of its online payment service at it squares off against eBay’s biggest market PayPal.

Google had introduced Checkout in June with offers such as free ad credits for merchants. During November it offered discounts to customers, $10 off $30 on purchases. With the recent idea it will allow the merchants pay a variety of fees to use the service. PayPal normally charges 2.9% plus 30 cents per transaction on sales up $3, 000 per month. However Google’s fee is 2% of the sale plus 20 cents, less if the merchant is a Google advertiser.

The Malaysian mobile operator recently announced a deal with enterprise infrastructure vendor Sybase 365 to deliver two of MSN’s popular Web-based communication service, Hotmail and Windows Live Messenger to eight million Maxis subscribers in the country.

The service, applies to postpaid and prepaid Maxis customers only, and relies on the industry standard short message (SMS) for further content delivery.

Media General Inc., initiator of Tampa Tribune and Winston-Salem Journal had recently stated that it is planning to post online career sections of 25 of its daily newspapers to Yahoo Inc.’s HotJobs Platform.

Yahoo is already with Tampa Tribune career content and now it would eventually host all Media General’s career advertising as well. All career related advertising sold by its newspaper Web sites would now be posted on Yahoo HotJobs. By this deal, Media General becomes a part of group for about 200 newspapers, which links their career content through Yahoo’s HotJobs site.

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 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.

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 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.