The Hindu News Update Service default/empty News Update Service Tuesday, June 17, 2008 : 1730 Hrs
Business Yahoo! partners with MTNL, Idea Cellular New Delhi (PTI): Yahoo! the leader in mobile advertising and mobile Internet services, on Tuesday announced partnerships with two Indian mobile operators MTNL and Idea Cellular as part of a series of initiatives in Asia. While in case of MTNL it is for Yahoo! oneSearch, the mobile search engine, in the case of Idea Cellular, the partnership is for mobile advertising. The Sunnyvale, California based company on Tuesday announced several new mobile initiatives for the Asia Pacific region, including five new Yahoo! oneSearch partnerships with leading mobile operators including MTNL, Hong Kong CSL Limited (CSL), Smart Communications Inc (Smart, Philippines), Digital Mobile Phlis, Inc (SUN Cellular, Philippines) and Vibo Telecom Inc (Vibo, Taiwan). It has also forged strategic mobile advertising partnerships with Idea Cellular Ltd and Maxis Communications Bhd (Malaysia), the company said in a statement distributed via Businesswire. Yahoo! also announced localised 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 recognises 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. These announcements further demonstrate Yahoo!'s global momentum and unveil the next phase of the company's mobile strategy for the Asia Pacific region, said the release. Today's Yahoo! oneSearch partnerships announcement brings the total number of mobile search deals signed by Yahoo! worldwide in the last 18 months to over 60. Business google_ads_frame frame end To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
