Yahoo has announced a new mobile service called Yahoo mobile that it bills as a highly personalized starting point for the Internet. Yahoo Mobile will be available as an app for the iPhone and will be offered for devices from Nokia, RIM, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, and Motorola. Windows Mobile devices will be supported as well.
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Today HTC, T-Mobile and Google announced the first phone running the Android platform, the G1. The G1 has a touch screen that swivels out to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard. The G1 is highly integrated with Google’s services, and includes one-touch access to Google Maps Street View, Gmail, YouTube and others. It has a track [...]

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Today AT&T announced that it will incorporate Yahoo’s OneSearch tool into its MediaNet mobile Web site. Searches performed though the MediaNet search bar will now be run by Yahoo.

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Microsoft and Billionaire financier Icahn had a chat last week and the message to Yahoo is that Microsoft is still interested to reopen talks if Yahoo elects a new board.
Meanwhile The Times Online reports that Yahoo is talking again with Time Warner to fend of a Microsoft takeover.

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Today Yahoo announced OnePlace, an addition to its Go! for Mobile services. OnePlace allows users to collect bookmarks and other content, such as news feeds and flight information, in one location. It works in tandem with OneSearch and OneConnect to customize content based on user location and other preferences. Users can choose the content that [...]

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From now on, mobile browsers from Opera will use Google search instead of Yahoo search. It will be accessible directly from the Opera start page beginning March 1.

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Two Detroit-based pension funds sued Yahoo and its board today, the latest event in the escalating Microsoft-Yahoo buyout drama. Yahoo – who shocked investors by rejecting a $44.6 billion bid from Microsoft – frustrated the Detroit Police and Fire Retirement System, and General Retirement System organizations to the point where they are threatening litigation, because [...]

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Hop-on has filed to protect the trademarks YahooPhone and YPhone designed for “telephones, cellular and mobile telephones, apparatus, connectors, chargers, headsets and so on”. We know Hop-on as a maker of low-end phones meant for developing markets. It’s not clear how the company will use YahooPhone and YPhone trademarks – if for own phones, it [...]

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Hot off the heels of Microsoft trying to acquire Internet giant Yahoo, they have successfully acquired Danger, the maker of the Sidekick line of phones. It is thought the deal is worth in the region of $500 million. Now that all papers are signed and hands shaken, the question is, what will Microsoft do with [...]

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Today, Google has said that Microsoft’s possible acquisition of fellow Internet giant Yahoo for $45 billion, could, potentially be anti-competitive – the company’s Chief Legal Officer David Drummond seemed very concerned about the future of Yahoo! and far-reaching implications of the much-hyped deal in his blog post: “Microsoft’s hostile bid for Yahoo! raises troubling questions. [...]

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Yahoo! is announcing today the Yahoo Go! 3.0 beta featuring an enhanced user interface, access to third-party widgets from major publishers, click-to-call capability in the ads displayed from Yahoo!’s major global advertisers.
Yahoo! is also launching an open platform that allows developers to create mobile widgets that will be available from various locations including including Yahoo! [...]

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