Yahoo strikes largest mobile-search deal yet, in Latin America
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Internet company's OneSearch to be default search tool for portals of America Movil, a leading wireless-service provider.
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Internet giant Yahoo on Wednesday announced partnership agreements with six leading Asian mobile phone operators with a combined subscriber base of nearly 100 million.
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(InfoWorld) - YahooÂ is seeking to reassure carriers that it isn't trying to cut them out of the loop with its mobile content services, even as it rolls outÂ new mobile servicesÂ for customers. "Yahoo wants to work with operators for an optimized experience," said David Ko, vice president and general manager of Yahoo's mobile and broadband business in Asia, speaking Wednesday at the CommunicAsia Summit. Mobile operators are increasingly nervous that companies like Yahoo and Google will go direct to users with mobile content services, using their networks to offer so-called "over-the-top services" that don't give operators a cut of the revenue. These concerns have grown as content companies refine their mobile offerings and look for ways to make them available to users. During a speech at the CommunicAsia Summit, Ko announced that six Asian operators will use Yahoo's mobile search engine, calledÂ oneSearch. They are Globe Telecom in the Philippines, India's Idea Cellular, South Korea's LG Telecom, Maxis Communications in Malaysia, Indonesia's PT Telekomunikasi Selular, and Taiwan Mobile. These operators, which represent about 100 million subscribers, have agreed to use Yahoo's oneSearch in exchange for a portion of revenue from the mobile search service, Ko said, declining to detail specific terms of the deals. Most of the revenue will come from advertising, he said. In addition, operators will generate revenue from increased data charges as users access the search engine. The announcement that six operators will use oneSearch is an important win for Yahoo in Southeast Asia, where cellular-phone penetration rates outstrip the availability of PCs. Yahoo has long been a presence in the region, where its services are widely used. But competition is heating up: Google opened its Singapore office in May, announcing plans to set up an R&D center and expand its business in Southeast Asia. Â
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Yahoo said Tuesday it has a partnership with T-Mobile to be the exclusive Internet service provider for the mobile network operator's European users.
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Yahoo Inc. appeared to move a step closer to challenging Google Inc. in searchable Web mail, acquiring the startup behind the powerful e-mail application Bloomba.
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SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK  - Microsoft Corp   made a bid to buy Yahoo Inc  for $44.6 billion, seeking  to join forces against Google Inc  in what would be the  biggest Internet deal since the Time Warner- AOL merger.
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InfoWorld - Yahoo&#160;is schmoozing mobile phone operators at&#160;the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona in the hopes of enlisting partners for its new mobile search services.
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America Movil, the leading cell  phone operator in Latin America, said on Monday it entered a  deal with YouTube.com to feature the popular Web site's videos  on its latest generation services.
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Google SMS started serving search results to mobile users in the US just a few days back. Now Yahoo! follows it with even more comprehensive feature set.
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Yahoo Inc  ousted archrival  Google Inc  as T-Mobile's top Internet partner in  Europe as it unveiled a service to squeeze social Web  connections on to cell phone screens, a day after rebuffing a  $41.6 billion takeover bid from Microsoft Corp .
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Yahoo Inc.  said it signed agreements with six mobile operators across Asia, as part of a broad global expansion that will see its mobile services in tens of millions of phones by the end of the year.
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Internet media company Yahoo Inc.  on Wednesday launched its Web search service aimed at mobile phone users in the United States, opening a new front in its rivalry with Internet search leader Google Inc.
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Yahoo Goes Mobile with Search and Images  Yahoo yesterday unveiled their latest weapon in the search engine wars with Google and Microsoft - their mobile phone Yahoo. Nevermind desktop search or free email accounts, Yahoo is now bringing their search, local listings, and even images to mobile phones and portable devices. ...
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InfoWorld - Yahoo has teamed up with High Tech Computer&#160;(HTC) to put a suite of Internet software applications on millions of Windows Mobile handsets, the companies said Wednesday.
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Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO) is rolling out wireless search capabilities, extending the Internet portal's desktop services to the mobile masses and attempting to hold off the challenge from search-engine giant Google.
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Yahoo Inc. for the first time is letting mobile phone users query its search engine, giving them access to conventional Web results, local business listings and related information, as well as images, such as pictures and maps, the company said Wednesday.
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SUNNYVALE, Calif.  --  Yahoo Inc. will sell branded advertising aimed at mobile phone customers outside the United States as part of the Internet powerhouse's efforts to build other revenue sources beyond the Web.