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 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.

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.

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 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 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

Mobile handset maker Nokia stated this Wednesday that it has extended its partnership with Yahoo to include the search giant’s services on a few selected set of Nokia phones.

The company would also begin rolling out the new Yahoo options with the Nokia 6300, 5200, and 5300 XpressMusic phones. The handsets would let users synchronize Yahoo available contacts, tasks, and calendar items, and will also connect to Yahoo Mail and Messenger.

Yahoo had recently launched an experimental site, which offers mobile phone subscribers the power to send any text messages and also share videos and pictures with their friends. The service of Yahoo still follows the trend among Internet portals to offer mobile social networking services.

The service is basically centered on making it easy for friends group to use text messaging as a way to organize a party, meet in a restaurant, attend a football game or may be to arrange any other social activity.

Bharti Airtel and Google had recently announced a strategic partnership to offer wider mobile search.

According to a release issued by Bharti to the BSE, Airtel would bring Google search to the Airtel Live mobile with WAP portal. “Google would also include advertising through its Mobile Ads product on the Airtel Live mobile portal”, the release added.

Google search engine has been focusing its attention on the mobile market from past few years.

Google had come up with the new services designed exclusively for the small screen. Last January, it released the Google Personalized Home Page that lets people access Gmail, news, RSS feeds and much other information from their personalized Google home page on mobile phones and PDAs. This specific service is free for US and it also work with any phone that has an XHTML- capable web browser.

“Google sees great prospective for extending its presence throughout the world using the mobile platform”, said Deep Nishar, director of product management for Google.