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Articles tagged with: Yahoo
Wi-Fi for travelers becomes Web marketing lure
Google, Yahoo, eBay and Microsoft, competitors on the Web, all have the same idea for marketing themselves this holiday season: temporarily providing free Wi-Fi access in airports, airplanes and public places. more
Related Tags: google, ebay, microsof, wi-fi, airports, USA
Will Yahoo Link Its Mobile Search With Microsoft's?
One of the big questions of the pending Yahoo-Microsoft search pact -- Will Yahoo replace its search on mobile devices with Microsoft's search? -- remains unanswered. more
Related Tags: microsoft, mobile-search
Telecom New Zealand Outlines 3G Network Launch Details
Telecom New Zealand has revealed more of the services coming on its WCDMA based XT Mobile network including changes to mobile plan charging, and a range of handset and content announcements. At a media briefing, Group CEO Paul Reynolds said Telecom is changing the game for mobile customers by having fewer plans that are less complicated and take away the guesswork. more
Related Tags: telecom-new-zealand, wcdma, 3g, New Zealand
Yahoo! Boosts Mobile Advertising Services
yahoo has announced two display advertising solutions for marketers as part of a new partner program designed to improve campaign performance by marrying yahoo's reach and targeting capabilities with third-party advertising technologies. By bringing together yahoo's platform with third-party Smart Ad technologies from Teracent and Tumri, yahoo believes it's offering an open and unmatched solution for reaching consumers with customized messages. more
Related Tags: mobile-advertising, smart, partner
Google, Yahoo Find Mobile Ad Business a Whole New World
When Glu Mobile launched an ad campaign in February to sell its wireless games, the company at first ran ads on five mobile Internet networks, including those managed by Google and Yahoo. more
Related Tags: glu-mobile, mobile-advertising, google, jumptap, admob, millennial-media
Operators Lose Prime Position for Location Based Services
Wireless carriers are increasingly losing control of location-based service provision to Internet companies such as Google and yahoo, and to handset vendors like Nokia, according to Strategy Analytics. more
Related Tags: lbs, location-based-services, google, nokia, skyhook, gps
Yahoo! Mobile Selects Navizon for Wi-Fi and Cellular Geolocation
Mexens Technology, maker of the Navizon positioning system says that it has been selected by yahoo Mobile to be a provider of Wi-Fi and Cellular positioning technology. more
Related Tags: wi-fi, 3g, cdma, towers
Vodafone Considers Swapping Google for Yahoo
Vodafone is reported to be considering switching its mobile search service from Google to yahoo when their existing contract expires at the end of this year. Citing people close to the matter, Bloomberg News reported that the talks are still ongoing, and that yahoo is not the only firm Vodafone is talking to. more
Related Tags: google, t-mobile, eu, vodafone, o2, mobile-advertising, vodafone-uk, mobile-search, instant-messaging, partner
Ex-Vodafone CEO, Arun Sarin Shortlisted to take Top Job at Yahoo
Former Vodafone CEO, Arun Sarin is one of a shortlist of possible contenders to take the top job at struggling internet firm, yahoo - reports the Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter. more
Related Tags: google, microsoft, cisco, vodafone, cisco-systems, arun-sarin, vodafone-group
Facebook-Twitter talks break down
Opinion piece by Madan Sheina, principal analyst at Ovum
What would have been the first major consolidation between two social
networking giants has failed to materialise, as FacebookÃ's attempts to woo
Twitter with an all-stock offer fell on deaf ears. FacebookÃ's valuation seems
to have been the sticking point. But with neither company as yet able to
demonstrate that it can make money on a scale that matches its number of users,
the outcome might not be a bad thing.
more
Related Tags: google, microsoft, sms, social-networking, twitter, ovum, ofta, compete, text-messages, facebook