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Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 29 Jan 2008 03:15 PM PST
Alongside Yahoo’s (NSDQ: YHOO) quarterly report (see coverage at paidContent.org), the company has announced an ‘extension and expansion’ of its strategic alliance with AT&T, which has been a source of…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 24 Jan 2008 02:52 AM PST
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has appointed Matt White has its first head of mobile advertising, filling a role created to handle Yahoo’s increasing mobile inventory reports NMA. Previously Yahoo had its…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 17 Jan 2008 02:55 AM PST
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and T-Mobile have struck a deal in which the search firm will provide display advertising on the network operator’s internet service Web ‘n’ walk in the UK.…
Posted By Carlo Longino - Tue 08 Jan 2008 03:25 PM PST
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) made some significant announcements about new mobile services Monday at CES, saying it was opening up its mobile offerings to third-party widgets. Yahoo’s VP of global mobile…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 08 Jan 2008 05:40 AM PST
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) mobile Chief Marco Boerries has confirmed that it will make versions of its mobile services to run on phone platforms including Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) Android (when it…
Posted By Carlo Longino - Mon 07 Jan 2008 12:42 PM PST
Yahoo has turned its Go mobile application into a widget platform, the company’s VP of Connected Life, Marco Boerries, announced today at CES. The Yahoo Go application has been revamped,…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 06 Jan 2008 08:56 PM PST
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is launching its own mobile development platform. Not exactly a direct competitor to Google-backed Android though, but as this FT story says it focuses on a narrower…
Posted By Carlo Longino - Thu 20 Dec 2007 02:35 PM PST
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) plans to launch its Panama online ad platform for mobile devices in the first quarter of 2008, reports NMA (subscription required). Yahoo says it will allow advertisers…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 20 Dec 2007 07:50 AM PST
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has announced its biggest carrier deal to date: America Movil, which has 143 million mobile subscribers. The deal will see oneSearch as the default mobile search engine…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 20 Dec 2007 07:18 AM PST
To a large extent 2007 has been dominated by the moves of big web brands into mobile. In fact, if I was under pressure to point to the strongest effect…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 06 Dec 2007 05:13 AM PST
In the battle to control mobile advertising, operators are being painted as control freaks. Bloomberg reports that web search companies Google, (NSDQ: GOOG) Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO)…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Sat 24 Nov 2007 10:04 PM PST
Despite a number of false dawns of the start of the mass usage of the mobile internet Yahoo reckons that 2007 is the year it started for real. “Within 10…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 08 Nov 2007 04:51 AM PST
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) mobile chief Marco Boerries has no plans on changing his strategy in light of Google’s Android move, and is racing to lock down phone distribution deals. “The…
Posted By Ingrid Lunden - Thu 25 Oct 2007 03:18 AM PST
On the heels of news that Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is planning to extend its mobile operations across Asia, some news from Japan. The Internet portal is launching a mobile version…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 24 Oct 2007 03:44 PM PST
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) president Susan Decker has promised “a number of announcements in the months ahead, even days and weeks” concerning a series of partnerships with mobile carriers in Asia…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 05 Oct 2007 07:45 AM PST
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has added both Yahoo Answers and Wikipedia to Yahoo oneSearch, adding community-based information to its service. The Wikipedia page is broken into digestible bits for the mobile…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 01 Oct 2007 07:19 AM PST
Telefonica (NYSE: TEF) has struck a deal with Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) that will install the search site’s oneSearch mobile web search as the search engine of choice on the telco’s…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 20 Sep 2007 03:31 AM PST
ComScore has released a report into the web surfing habits of people in Japan. It claims that in June almost as many people used a mobile device to access the…
Posted By Ingrid Lunden - Tue 04 Sep 2007 06:24 AM PST
-- The phone-as-fashion-accessory takes another step down the catwalk: Yahoo is partnering with ELLE Magazine to provide coverage of the fall fashion weeks in New York, Paris and Milan (the…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Sun 26 Aug 2007 06:51 AM PST
Yahoo is updating its e-mail client, and among other things is the ability to send free text messages to a mobile phone number from within Yahoo Mail. This service will…
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 21 Aug 2007 10:47 AM PST
Update: This was reported by WSJ a months ago buried inside a Google-focused story. Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) has bought Munich-based mobile marketing firm Actionality earlier this month, Mobile Entertainment reports.…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 16 Aug 2007 08:17 PM PST
Japan’s Softbank Mobile has added a social networking category to the top level menu of its Yahoo mobile portal. Rather than launch rely on its own social network it has…
Posted By Peggy Anne Salz - Fri 22 Jun 2007 02:47 AM PST
It’s official: Yahoo will today take the wraps off a new version of its downloadable Yahoo Go made-for-mobile app, which has been in test mode in the U.S. since January.…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 21 Jun 2007 08:03 AM PST
Yahoo has sought to reassure carriers that it isn’t trying to cut them out of the revenue loop with its mobile content services at the CommunicAsia Summit. “Yahoo wants to…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 19 Jun 2007 06:58 PM PST
Essentially Yahoo Go, the mobile suite of apps from Yahoo, drops is beta tag with this. Also, it is launching beta versions of the suite in 13 other countries. Those…
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