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Cornered! Yahoo! unveils mobile Internet domination plans
Cornered! Yahoo! unveils mobile Internet domination plans | Yahoo! unveils mobile Internet domination plans |
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| Written by Stuart Corner | |
| Tuesday, 08 January 2008 | |
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Page 1 of 3 Should Yahoo!, or Google, succeed even partially the rewards will be enormous. The humble cellphone in recent years has risen to provide significant challenges to the digital camera market, the portable music player market and is now being tipped to grab a major share of the GPS device market. While most of the new users are in developing countries and using the phones only for SMS and calls the percentage of phones able, and being regularly used, to access the Internet can only grow. So what is Yahoo! planning? First off, let's be clear that I am not exaggerating the scope of Yahoo!'s ambitions. Yahoo! co-founder and CEO, Jerry Yang kicked off the 2008 International CES Industry Insider Series sayin the goal was to strengthen Yahoo!'s role as "the preferred starting point for anything and everything users need online." He added "To be the best starting point, it's clear that we need to open the Yahoo! experience to any device or user. Mobile is a perfect example since more consumers are soon expected to come and go from the Net via their phones rather than desktops." Yahoo!'s strategy is "to enable and lead a mobile ecosystem ultimately serving billions of users by providing indispensable & compelling services to consumers, developers, publishers and advertisers." According to Marco Boerries, executive vice president Connected Life at Yahoo! "Yahoo!'s ultimate goal is to bring the best possible Internet experience to the billions of mobile consumers around the glob." Specific announcements made at CES to help Yahoo! achieve this goal were: |
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