Yahoo has done a deal with Facebook to link updates for users who belong to both communities.

This means that when you’re checking into your Yahoo email account, you will get updates from your Facebook friends sent through.

You’ll be able to write comments yourself on the Yahoo page, which will be relayed directly to Facebook.

Although it’ll be necessary to link your Yahoo account up to your Facebook first.

A simple filter system is being implemented for those who don’t want to see all that Facebook stuff popping up under Yahoo updates.

On the Yahoo Mail blog, a spokesperson commented: “So there you have it – one-stop updates from across Yahoo and Facebook, right on Yahoo Mail, with more to come across the broader Yahoo network soon.”

“We hope this feature helps you easily stay in touch with the people who matter most to you. Please let us know what you think!”

Yahoo is attempting to push itself forward in the face of opposition not just from the mighty Google, but also Microsoft’s Bing project.

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Nokia and Yahoo have announced a partnership in which they intend to combine their web services over both PCs and mobile phones.

Nokia will provide Yahoo with maps and navigation services, which basically means that Ovi Maps will be integrated into Yahoo.

And Yahoo will become the exclusive provider of Ovi Mail and Ovi Chat services to Nokia.

To put it another way, it’s a simple case of I scratch your back, if you scratch mine. And with Ovi Maps, they won’t have any trouble finding each other’s backs (left at the hip, then right at the buttock crevice, and keep going until you see that big mole, you can’t miss it).

Both parties are going to merge their identification engines, so you’ll be able to access Yahoo with your Ovi login and vice versa.

“Delivering great user experiences – both online and on your mobile – is what this alliance is all about,” said Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, CEO of Nokia.

“We’re enabling millions of Yahoo customers in key markets including North America to discover the unique capabilities that Ovi Maps brings.”

“Similarly, Yahoo’s online expertise will bring exciting mail and messaging enhancements to millions of Ovi Mail customers across almost every country around the world, many of whom will have their first Internet experience on their mobile.”

The companies reckon that some co-branded services will be released later this year, with worldwide availability expected come 2011.

Both firms stand to benefit considerably from this alliance, and doubtless Yahoo will be hoping that access to Ovi Maps will help it gain pace on the behemoth that is Google.

Nokia and Yahoo hook up with web services

Virgin Media has apparently lost the online rights to the Premier League highlights, to the search engine Yahoo!

The deal between the Premier League and Yahoo! will start when the next football season begins in August.

The search engine will be able to show five minute highlights from every game in the Premier League on the main Yahoo! website and this content can be syndicated out to third parties too.

Yahoo! now has these online rights for the next three seasons.

Some industry experts are surprised that Yahoo! apparently took the rights away from Virgin Media so easily and that YouTube was not in the mix, as the video site recently won the rights to show cricket match clips from the Indian Premier League.

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Seven Principles AG (7P) is developing TV apps in partnership with Yahoo! Connected TV.

The company is adapting its web technology for desktop and mobile communications to work with TV powered by the Yahoo!® Widget Engine.

Ulrich Trinkaus, 7P’s Chief Operating Officer, said “TV Widgets are easily accessed by a remote control using a numerical keypad with multiple assignments for text input and a directional pad for navigation.

“We can incorporate virtually 100% of our experience from the mobile communications area and use it in the development of the TV apps.”

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Technicolor, the new name for the Thomson technology company, is to dump 625 jobs from its Grass Valley camera and TV division, in preparation for the sale of the outfit.

Technicolor said in a statement that its reorganisation plan would enable Grass Valley “to adapt to a strongly deteriorated business climate” caused by declining broadcaster budgets and lower spending on advertising.

Grass Valley’s revenues have fallen 31% since the end of 2008, and it made a loss €87m ($117m) in 2009. The planned job cuts represent a quarter of Grass Valley’s headcount.

Technicolor/Thomson Technicolor said in January that it would sell businesses that contributed around €1bn to its 2008 sales, including Grass Valley, advertising division PRN and cinema advertising unit Screenvision, in order to trim debt.

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