| Yahoo! has announced several new mobile initiatives for the Asia Pacific region, including five new Yahoo! oneSearch partnerships with leading mobile operators including Mahanagar Telephon Nigam Limited (India), Hong Kong CSL Limited, Smart Communications Inc. (Philippines), Digital Mobile Phlis, Inc. (Philippines) and Vibo Telecom Inc. (Taiwan), as well as strategic mobile advertising partnerships with Idea Cellular Ltd. (India) and Maxis Communications Bhd (Malaysia). Additionally, Yahoo! announced localized versions of Yahoo! Go 3.0 for India, Australia and Southeast Asia, including a local language version for Indonesia, and an English version of Yahoo! oneSearch with voice that recognizes regional accents. The company also announced the launch of new mobile widgets for the Asia Pacific region including Yahoo! Cricket, Yahoo! Answers and Showtimes (Yahoo! India Movies), as well as a MTV Asia mobile widget featuring news updates and music charts. |
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Vlingo Corporation has announced that it localized its voice-powered interface for Yahoo! oneSearch, a mobile search service, by enabling the English language product to recognize Indian and Singaporean accents. Through Yahoo! oneSearch with voice, BlackBerry users in India and Singapore can access information on the mobile Internet with the power of their voice. Available beginning today, consumers in these regions can download the new versions of voice-enabled Yahoo! oneSearch at http://m.yahoo.com/ from their mobile browser, or learn more about the products by visiting http://in.mobile.yahoo.com/ or http://sg.mobile.yahoo.com/ on their PC. Vlingo’s voice-enabling technology is a natural input method for mobile search queries and provides Yahoo! oneSearch users with a simple way to access better answers and relevant information on the mobile Web. Users do not need to change how they speak or memorize a list of commands. | 
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| The Board of Directors of Yahoo! Inc. today sent the following letter to Steve Ballmer, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Corporation. Dear Steve: Our Board has reviewed your most recent letter with regard to the unsolicited proposal you made to acquire Yahoo! on January 31, 2008. Our Board carefully considered your unsolicited proposal, unanimously concluded that it was not in the best interests of Yahoo! and our stockholders, and rejected it publicly on February 11, 2008. Our Board cited Yahoo!'s global brand, large worldwide audience, significant recent investments in advertising platforms and future growth prospects, free cash flow and earnings potential, as well as its substantial unconsolidated investments, as factors in its decision. | |
Today, Yahoo! Inc. unveiled Yahoo! oneSearch 2.0, a new version of its award-winning mobile search service. Key enhancements will allow users to initiate searches faster using text or voice. Yahoo! also plans to provide greater relevance through richer, more detailed search results by opening up Yahoo! oneSearch to publishers to integrate content, simplify search input with Search Assist and voice-enabled search, and make search instantly accessible on the idle screen of many phones. These innovations build on Yahoo!'s strategy to become the starting point for the most mobile consumers.
Yahoo! took a major step forward in enhancing its popular Yahoo! oneSearch service by previewing plans to open up mobile search results to publishers and developers across the Internet. | 
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Today Yahoo! unveiled a new mobile content management solution named Yahoo! onePlace. Yahoo! onePlace is designed to be an essential tool to enable consumers to better manage the wide selection of content available across the Internet.
Yahoo! onePlace will bring together a consumer's interests, passions and important information into a single location - creating a rich and highly personalized experience. Everything is instantly organized, dynamically kept current, and served to them the way they want. So now, the content they consume and the way they consume it will be hyper-customized to their specific preferences and tastes.
Yahoo! onePlace will be simple-to-use because it will be based on a familiar process of using bookmarks to instantly link to practically any piece of content (news feeds, web sites, videos, images, emails, search queries, etc.) from anywhere across the Internet.
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In 2007, Yahoo! revolutionized mobile search with Yahoo! oneSearch, an optimized search experience designed for the mobile device. Today the company will unveil a plan for similarly reinventing mobile communications by demonstrating its upcoming Yahoo! oneConnect service. Yahoo! oneConnect is expected to become available in the award-winning Yahoo! Go 3.0 and Yahoo!'s new mobile home page in Q2 2008.
Yahoo! oneConnect will be the first mobile product with an open architecture that aggregates communications tools - email, instant messaging (IM), text messaging (SMS), and social networks - for a new level of convenience in mobile communications.
Yahoo! oneConnect is designed to include the following features, which will: | 
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Yahoo! has agreed to enter into a new strategic partnership with T-Mobile to bring Yahoo!'s industry-leading mobile services to millions of consumers in T-Mobile's European footprint. This agreement sets the stage for Yahoo! oneSearch to become the exclusive mobile search service for T-Mobile customers beginning at the end of March, 2008.
Yahoo! oneSearch quickly and easily delivers relevant results and instant answers to search queries, removing the need for consumers to navigate through a sea of PC Web links. oneSearch provides consumers with access to news, financial information, weather conditions, photos, Web images, and Web and Mobile Web sites. The companies plan to make the new service available in T-Mobile's European footprint. In addition, the companies intend to work together to create a differentiated Yahoo! oneSearch experience for T-Mobile customers in the future. | 
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Yahoo! Inc. has announced the launch of the all-new Yahoo! Go 3.0, Yahoo!'s flagship all-in-one mobile offering, in early beta at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2008. Thanks to the feedback from many of Yahoo! Go 2.0 users, this new product is designed to deliver more of what consumers want, wherever however and whenever they want it. Yahoo! Go 3.0 takes mobile services to the next level with an upgraded and feature-rich user interface, a truly personalized start page and customizable access to consumers' favorite Internet brands and services through easy-to-use third-party widgets.
Consumers in the U.S. can download Yahoo! Go 3.0 (http://go.yahoo.com) on more than 30 mobile devices from major manufacturers worldwide and use it on most wireless networks. Over the coming months, Yahoo! Go 3.0 is expected to be available on hundreds of devices worldwide, accessible by hundreds of millions of users.
Yahoo! Go 3.0 offers an intuitive and rich design that makes efficient use of the phone's small screen and speeds consumers' ability to find the information they need on the mobile Internet. | 
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Yahoo! has announced nine new partnerships with some of the leading mobile operators across the Asia Pacific region, in its continuing effort to partner with mobile operators globally to reach hundreds of millions of consumers. Through Yahoo!'s partnerships with mobile operators, Yahoo! oneSearch, Yahoo!'s leading mobile search technology, will power the search experience for consumers on partner mobile internet sites and provide additional revenue opportunities for these partners.
The new partnership agreements include leading mobile operators such as Aircel Limited (India), BPL Mobile (India), Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL; India), DiGi Telecommunications Sdn Bhd (DiGi; Malaysia), PT EXCELCOMINDO PRATAMA Tbk. (Excelcom; Indonesia), PT Hutchison CP Telecom (Hutch 3; Indonesia), PT Indosat, Tbk (Indosat; Indonesia), PCCW Mobile HK Limited (Hong Kong) and Starhub Ltd (Singapore). |
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Companies are like kids! They watch each other and if one competitor does something the other one is sure to follow. It's rumored that Yahoo is following Google's lead in developing a cell phone. According to Michael Arrington at TechCruch, Yahoo has been working on a cell phone longer than Google and maybe launching the phone next year. Well maybe Google is following Yahoo's lead!
It also seems Yahoo is opening a research center with former Motorola software engineers. However, Yahoo has claimed the software engineers will be working on mobile ad targeting.
Over the last several months, there has been a lot of evidence that Google is indeed working on a cell phone, but nothing from Yahoo! Well this maybe the first clue. Only time shall tell. Can't wait for the day when my cell phone service from Google or Yahoo is free! | 
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Today Yahoo is introducing an upgraded free e-mail service with enhancements that include letting people send text messages from computers to mobile telephones.
The improved Yahoo! Mail being rolled out around the world in the coming weeks is the most extensive overhaul of the web-based e-mail service since it was launched a decade ago.
Because the text messaging feature depends on cooperation of mobile phone service providers its debuts are limited for now to India, Canada, the Philippines and the United States.
Yahoo doesn't charge for sending or receiving text messages, but mobile telephone users may be charged fees by carriers that provide their services.
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Yahoo and Reuters are looking for amateur photojournalists and cell phone owners who happen to be in the right place at the right time. Yahoo is partnering with Reuters on a new service called You Witness News. While the Yahoo/Reuters service sounds intriguing, it might not be so welcome among professional photojournalists.
According to Reuters, what makes a good news photograph is a picture that will be of interest to a wide audience. It may depict an event in the news: a train crash, a clash in the streets, deliriously happy fans the moment the big game is won. Or it may not be of a strictly 'news' event. It could be an out-of-the-ordinary moment in time in an otherwise ordinary day. Something that has novelty and impact. For example, a model falling over her huge heels on the catwalk, or a fox running up Downing Street, or a fire station catching fire, or a mouse hitching a lift on the back of a toad during a flood. | 
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Yahoo has launched a beta site called Mixd that offers mobile-phone subscribers the ability to send text messages and share videos and pictures among friends. The service follows a trend among Internet portals to offer mobile social-networking services.
Yahoo plans to market Mixd on a handful of college campuses across the nation. The service is centered on making it easy for groups of friends to use text messaging as a way to organize a party, meet in a restaurant, attend a football game or arrange any other social activity. Yahoo expects users to form a lot of ad hoc groups around particular events, and use the service's "reply-to-all" feature as way to communicate collectively. Individuals can also have private conversations, and people have the option whether to join a group. The creator also has the option of kicking people out.
MySpace, owned by News Corp. and among the Web's most popular social networks, is developing mobile services for its users. In addition, the site has a partnership with youth-oriented wireless carrier Helio, which offers social-networking services based on global positioning systems in high-end mobile phones.
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Yahoo! Inc. today announced the beta launch of its graphical advertising platform for its Mobile Web service in the United States.
The first advertisements on this beta platform will go live later this week. This launch follows the October 2006 beta introduction of search advertisements, which together provide a comprehensive solution to enable Yahoo! advertisers to reach millions of consumers on their mobile devices via major wireless carriers in the U.S. This launch demonstrates Yahoo!'s continued focus on extending our leadership in graphical advertising and in mobile services.
(Note Last month we reported that Yahoo! announced the beta launch of sponsored search results on the company's Mobile Web service in the United States and United Kingdom.)
The beta platform will support graphical advertisements across Yahoo!'s Mobile Web service. | | 
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Yahoo! recently announced the beta launch of sponsored search results on the company's Mobile Web service in the United States and United Kingdom. This beta launch further extends the reach of Yahoo! sponsored search products and services to the mobile environment, enabling Yahoo! advertisers to reach consumers on their mobile devices across major mobile operators in both countries.
Beginning with this launch, Yahoo!'s web search results on the Yahoo! Mobile Web services in the US and UK will include Yahoo!'s high quality sponsored search results from a select group of advertisers. Consumers will be able to click on the sponsored search results to go to the advertisers' mobile web site or a landing page to get more information about the advertisers' offerings, including the ability to call the advertiser. As the beta phase progresses, Yahoo! will work to expand the number of participating advertisers.
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 Yahoo! Inc. has made its Yahoo! Go for Mobile service available for consumers to download onto Windows Mobile-powered phones.
Starting today the millions of consumers around the world with Windows Mobile-powered phones, such as the Motorola Q, can use Yahoo! Go for Mobile for the first time. Yahoo! Go for Mobile, which first launched earlier this year (http://go.yahoo.com/mobile), is an integrated suite of Yahoo!'s leading services including Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Search and Yahoo! Photos that gives consumers quick access to their personalized Internet content on their mobile phone. Yahoo! has also signed global distribution deals with leading device manufacturers to reach millions of additional consumers by embedding Yahoo! Go for Mobile on select devices. Yahoo! Go for Mobile is a comprehensive application that extends consumers Internet community and content seamlessly to their mobile device. Key features of the service include: | | |
Yahoo! Inc., and go2® Directory Systems (www.go2.com), a leading provider of local search, directory and movie guide information over mobile devices in the U.S., recently announced a mobile search advertising agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, Yahoo!’s sponsored search listings will be featured in go2’s mobile search results. This is the first comprehensive US partnership to bring Yahoo!’s high quality sponsored search results and deep experience to mobile devices.
This new relationship will extend Yahoo!’s sponsored search reach into go2’s mobile content network, enabling Yahoo! advertisers to reach consumers searching for local products and services via their mobile devices. Sponsored search advertisers typically include highly relevant information about their businesses for mobile users, including hours of operation, parking instructions, discounts and specials. | | |
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