Helio Strikes Deal To Offer Yahoo Services On A Phone

PALO ALTO, Calif. -(Dow Jones)- Helio LLC is expected to announce Thursday an agreement with Yahoo to offer Yahoo's search, email, Messenger, news and sports services on Helio mobile phones.

The announcement follows an arrangement Helio, a joint venture between Earthlink and South Korea's SK Telecom, reached in February with the MySpace social networking site for teenagers and young adults.

Helio, a mobile service for young people, is expected to launch this spring.

-By Mark Boslet, Dow Jones Newswires; 650-496-1366; mark.boslet@dowjones.com

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Posted to the site on 13th April 2006