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Tricia over at mocoNews reports — briefly — that Geraldine Wilson has taken up the position of CEO over at Truphone.
I trust that she also brings a few hundred million dollars with her.
Geraldine previously headed up biz and marketing strategy for Yahoo’s mobile section (”Connected Life”). Every success Geraldine!
AT&T, the largest wireless service provider in the US, has today announced that it will start offering search services powered by Yahoo!.
AT&T will offer access to Yahoo’s Onesearch web-based services to approximately 70 million of its total userbase through the provider’s mobile internet portal. The services will include website keyword search along with links to [...]
Just caught this on Yahoo
Activists promote safe sex in India with cellphone ‘Condom, condom!’ ring tones
NEW DELHI - A cellphone ring tone that sings “Condom, condom!” has been launched to promote safe sex in India.
The a cappella ring tone features a professional singer chanting the word condom more than 50 times.
It’s a playful approach that [...]
Yahoo is turning its attention towards location based services with a new bit of software by the name of Fire Eagle, designed to help those with a fondness for social networking and the like to store and share their location information and settings only with those services they see fit.
it’s a web platform, so [...]
Wow. It has to be said. Actually, I’ll say it again. Wow.
Google and Yahoo have just described the mobile internet market and stated their desire to go after it. According to the channel mag ARN the two companies want to go after 3 billion (that’s nine zeros) mobile phone users.
“The phone is [...]
It looks like Google is having no hard time of transferring its out and out lead in internet search across to the world of mobile: according to the latest figures from industry watchers Nielsen Mobile, Google has 61 percent of mobile search sewn up, with Yahoo trailing at just 18 percent of the market. Google [...]
Continue ReadingJust a note following Julia’s post earlier.
What a coup for the 4INFO team! I’ve been following them for years and met the two founders in San Francisco a while back. The Alley Insider has announced that they’ve struck a partnership with Yahoo. 4INFO have already swept up most of the mainstream media [...]
After all the Microsoft farrago, Yahoo is now getting back to the business of trying to take on Google in advertising. Its latest move is signing a trial partnership with SMS advertising company 4INFO, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Under the trial, the WSJ says, 4INFO will give Yahoo the tech it needs to publish [...]
Bored with text input for mobile search? Yahoo has taken the wraps off voice enabled search for its oneSearch product for the BlackBerry users in the US, with more devices and countries coming soon. The base of the service is Vlingo’s speech recognition, which grabs the spoken search terms and enters them into oneSearch.
Yahoo is [...]
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