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Yahoo And AT&T Shift Strategic Alliance, RestructureTo Ad-Supported Portal From Premium; Revenue Hit - 0 Comments
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…

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Industry Moves: Yahoo Appoints Matt White First Head Of Mobile Advertising - 0 Comments
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…

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Yahoo And T-Mobile UK In Mobile Ad Tie-Up - 0 Comments
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.…

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@ CES: More On Yahoo’s New Mobile Offerings - 0 Comments
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…

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Yahoo Not Stupid, Will Work With Google And Apple OS’s - 0 Comments
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…

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@ CES: Yahoo Opens Up Go App To Third-Party Widgets; Single Widget Runs In App And On Mobile Web - 0 Comments
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,…

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Yahoo To Launch its Own Mobile Dev Platform; Runs Widgets Within Yahoo Go - 1 Comment
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…

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Yahoo To Launch Panama For Mobile In Q1 - 0 Comments
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…

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Yahoo Signs America Movil For OneSearch; 16 Countries Included - 2 Comments
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…

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2007 Review: Big Web Brands In Mobile Have Strong Effect - 1 Comment
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…

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Control Freak Operators Hindering Mobile Ad Market? - 3 Comments
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)…

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Yahoo Sees More Mobile Internet Users Than PC Internet Users By 2017 - 0 Comments
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…

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Yahoo Continues Mobile Strategy; No Plans For OS - 1 Comment
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…

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Yahoo Lauches Mobile Version Of Videocast In Japan - 0 Comments
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…

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Yahoo Planning Stronger Push Into Asia, Foreshadows Operator Deals - 0 Comments
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…

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Yahoo Adds Answers, Wikipedia, Flights To OneSearch - 0 Comments
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…

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O2, Telefonica Add Yahoo’s oneSearch To Mobile Portals - 0 Comments
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…

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Japanese Mobile Internet Users Rack Up 8.1 Hours Per Month; PC 18.9 Hours - 0 Comments
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…

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Mobile Content Bits: Yahoo/ELLE, Orbitz Social Net For Travelers, Abu Dhabi/Bertelsmann - 0 Comments
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…

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Yahoo Adds SMS Functionality To Web Mail - 0 Comments
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…

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Yahoo Buys Munich-based Mobile Marketer Actionality - 0 Comments
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.…

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Softbank Offers Access To Four Mobile Social Networks - 4 Comments
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…

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Yahoo Gives Green Light For Downloadable Yahoo Go For Mobile 2.0; Launch Set for 13 Countries - 0 Comments
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.…

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Yahoo: Operators Have Nothing To Fear From Us - 0 Comments
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…

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Yahoo Launches New Version Of Yahoo Go; Localized Versions; OneSearch In Asia - 0 Comments
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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