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According to several news sources, Microsoft and Yahoo have agreed to an online search and advertising partnership which is to be announced and this announcement is most likely to happen in the the next 24 Hours.

This move will help them to make a good stand in both the search market and the Ads market. According to the current situation Google has the most market share for these.

The deal will focus on revenue sharing between the two companies, says AllThingsD. The deal also means Microsoft’s powerful Bing search will be enhancing the power of Yahoo searches while the Advertisement part of both companies will be done by Yahoo.

As of June, Google’s search engine was used for 65 percent of all US searches, with Yahoo lagging behind at 19.6 percent and Bing at 8.4 percent.

There could be a hitch however.

“Any agreement where Microsoft powers search and shares the search data to Yahoo is open to scrutiny from US and EU justice departments,”

says Colin Gillis, an analyst at Brigantine Advisors, via Reuters.

Anti-trust issues may be brought up as well.

Buckingham Palace has noted that the British Royal Family has now joined Twitter, just another addition in the long line of big names that have joined the micro-blogging site.

The Twitter account is @BritishMonarchy and is now publicly available after spending a couple of weeks in private testing.

According to the BBC, the family signed up

“to harness the popularity of Twitter to spread news about the Royal Family.”

Among the “news” about the family will be most royal engagements and links to information on what family members are doing.A spokesperson did note however that none of the family would be tweeting personally, and instead, “the intention is that it is a news service rather than a personal voice.”