With Zimbra’s purchase, VMware is expanding from virtualization solutions to offer a suite of collaboration tools for the enterprises. Microsoft and HP have a signed a deal to provide integrated solutions to business customers. Panasonic is migrating to the cloud, dumping Microsoft Exchange and opting for IBM LotusLive suite.

Google is known for buying technology companies, however, not every company that Google has put their eyes on have accepted the deals. Here are some companies who rejected lucrative Google offers.

Google has just launched Real-Time Search, which is integrated seamlessly into its normal search result pages.

Nimbuzz for BlackBerry lets you connect to the most popular social networks and IM communities like Skype, Facebook, WLM (MSN), MySpace, Yahoo, Gtalk and many more!

Yahoo Go, a mobile app for Symbian and other smartphones will be discontinued on January 12th, 2010, adding another Yahoo property into the deadpool.

Yahoo Messenger 10 final version is now available for download. The latest release includes a host of new features and windows 7 compatibility.

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Yahoo Geocities will be shut down on October 26,2009 and XKCD.com pays homage in a great way – with a redesign

Yahoo Geocities will be closed down tomorrow on 26th October 2009. All information hosted on the site will no longer be available.

Yamigo is free service provider for your IMPS needs. Currently it supports Yahoo, MSN, AIM and ICO.

WorldExplorer is a new and exciting way to explore the world through real users public photos. It has a visually-rich interface, displaying the information as tags on a world map with varying fonts to highlight their importance. It lets you move the map around, zoom in, zoom out, search for a place and check out the tags in various areas on the map.

Yahoo has announced that it will shut off access to Xoopit for Gmail users. Xoopit is a photo indexing service which Yahoo acquired in July 2009.

Bing’s market share dropped over 1% in Sepetember 2009. Yahoo it’s search partner also suffered similar loss in search share. Google Search though was the biggest gainer by moving up 2.25% in US search engine share.

Some days back, a slight change happened at Flickr. A small Yahoo logo was added to the Flickr logo so that it reads “Flickr from Yahoo!”. The change wasn’t met with appreciation and many users retaliated. If you like it, keep it. If you loathe it, learn to change it.

Yahoo, which is already not doing very well in the tech market, has finally taken the first step towards improving its situation. The giant has directly challenged the current favourite of netizens – Twitter and launched a microblogging platform called Yahoo Meme.