Yahoo! to Hold Annual Meeting of Shareholders Thursday, June 24, 2010 at 10:00 AM PT/ 1:00 PM ET Tweet

WHAT: Yahoo! Annual Meeting of Shareholders
WHERE: The Doubletree Hotel
2050 Gateway Place
San Jose, CA 95110
WHEN: Thursday, June 24, 2010 at 10:00 AM PT/ 1:00 PM ET
HOW: The live audiocast of Yahoo!'s Annual Meeting of Shareholders can be
accessed at


http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/events.cfm?CalendarID=4
The audiocast will be archived within 24 hours of the end of the event. To
listen to the archived Webcast go to:


http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/events.cfm?CalendarID=4

In order to attend the annual meeting, you must be a shareholder of record or a beneficial holder as of the close of business on April 27, 2010, or hold a legal proxy for the annual meeting.

If you are a shareholder of record, your name will be verified against the list of shareholders of record prior to your being admitted to the annual meeting. You should be prepared to present photo identification for admission. If you are a beneficial holder (i.e., if you hold your shares in "street name" through a bank, broker or other nominee), you will need to provide proof of your beneficial ownership on the record date, such as a brokerage account statement showing that you owned Yahoo! stock on April 27, 2010, or a copy of the "Important Notice Regarding the Availability of Proxy Materials" or the "Voting Instructions" form pre-printed with your name and address (mailed to you by your broker, bank or other nominee), or other similar evidence of ownership as of the record date, for admission.

If you do not provide photo identification or comply with the other procedures outlined above upon request, you may not be admitted to the annual meeting.

The meeting is for shareholders only; members of the media are invited to listen to the live audiocast.

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Yahoo! Provides Millions of Sony Customers in More Than 100 Countries with an Enhanced TV Viewing Experience Tweet

Yahoo! Dramatically Expands Availability of Yahoo! TV Widgets on Sony's BRAVIA LCD Televisions.

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO) announced the expanded availability of the Yahoo!(R) Widget Engine on Sony's Internet-connected BRAVIA LCD TVs, providing consumers easy on-demand access to thousands of content sources, movies, TV shows, and Internet content.

Consumers can check the latest videos on Showtime(R) and the latest sports scores on USA Today(R), shop on eBay(R), play games, or catch up with their friends on Twitter(R) and Facebook(R), all while watching TV. BRAVIA Internet Widgets powered by Yahoo! are now available in more than 100 countries across North America, Europe, Latin America, and Asia.

"Sony is the world leader in entertainment with the unique position of not only creating content, but also delivering highly advanced devices that allow consumers to view that content in their homes," said Toshifumi Okuda, senior general manager, Home Entertainment Business Group, Sony Corporation. "Extending our relationship with Yahoo! is another example of how Sony is focused on delivering attractive features to worldwide consumers."

"Our expanded partnership with Sony increases the number of countries where Yahoo! TV Widgets are available by nearly seven-fold, enabling us to connect millions of additional consumers to compelling Internet content and services right on their TV," said Jeff Kinder, senior vice president, Media Products and Solutions, Yahoo! Inc. "Yahoo! is delivering the right content on the right platforms -- across mobile, PC, TV, and tablets -- ensuring the best experiences for our users, publishers, and developers."

The increased distribution of the Yahoo! Widget Engine provides developers and content creators with unmatched scale and the ability to reach millions of engaged consumers around the globe. With new Web-based development interfaces, publishers can easily create TV Widgets with the Yahoo! TV Widget Development Kit (WDK).

About Yahoo!

Yahoo! attracts hundreds of millions of users every month through its innovative technology and engaging content and services, making it one of the most visited Internet destinations and a world-class online media company. Yahoo!'s vision is to be the center of people's online lives by delivering personally relevant, meaningful Internet experiences. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. For more information, visit pressroom.yahoo.com or the company's blog, Yodel Anecdotal (yodel.yahoo.com).

For additional information about Yahoo! Connected TV, including images, please visit: http://connectedtv.yahoo.com/newsroom

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CORRECTION FROM SOURCE: David Beckham Signs With Yahoo! as Global Football Ambassador Tweet

Worldwide Icon Brings Fans Closer to World's Most Popular Sport With Exclusive Content Only on Yahoo!

SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA -- The following corrects and replaces the release that was issued June 8th, 2010 at 6:15 am ET. Damian Peachey and Nicol Addison's contact information was not included in the press release. The complete and corrected version follows.

This summer, Yahoo!'s (NASDAQ:YHOO) more than 600 million global users will have even more reason to visit http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/football/world-cup/ as global football star David Beckham will be featured exclusively as part of the company's unrivalled sports coverage.

This partnership brings together the world's largest online media company and the world's most iconic sports star to offer exclusive content only found on Yahoo! for Yahoo!'s coverage of the World Cup and the 2010/11 football season.

"Yahoo! has a true relationship with fans and is an online leader in sports content across the globe," said David Beckham. "Yahoo will allow me to interact one on one with as many football fans as possible talking about the game I love."

Beckham will also be featured in the second phase of Yahoo!'s global integrated marketing campaign throughout the duration of the World Cup in select markets. The campaign focuses on showcasing specific products, services, and experiences that users can find only on Yahoo!. The goal of the campaign is to drive more people to search, use and talk about Yahoo! through exciting and experiential demonstrations of our unique ability to bring my world and the world together.

Yahoo! is an increasingly open and social platform, with users coming to Yahoo! to discover, share and chat with friends about the things that matter to them most. For Yahoo!'s campaign for its World Cup coverage, fans will discover exclusive content from Beckham in addition to its already robust offering of microsites, compelling mobile experiences, fantasy games and search tools for more than 20 countries. Three main components to the partnership between Yahoo! and David Beckham include:

-- David Beckham channel within Yahoo! Sport's coverage of the World Cup,
where Beckham will share his thoughts and his experience on playing and
scoring in three consecutive tournaments.
-- In anticipation for the 2010/11 football season, football fans will have
the opportunity to directly connect to David Beckham and ask him
questions through various Yahoo! channels, including Yahoo! Answers,
Y!Mail and Y!Messenger.
-- Beckham's participation in the Yahoo! marketing campaign throughout the
summer of sport.

"Yahoo! is all about providing users with content that engages and excites them around their passions, and who other than a global personality like David Beckham to deliver just that for football fans," said Elisa Steele, Yahoo!'s Chief Marketing Officer. "David's experience in three consecutive World Cup championships combined with his club experience in both Europe and the US gives him a unique perspective on football and the World Cup and we are happy to broadcast his message to our nearly 600 million users."

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Yahoo! Accelerates Social Momentum Tweet

Integrates Facebook Globally Across More than 15 Yahoo! Sites.

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Continuing its commitment to be the center of people's online lives, Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) announced new product integrations that continue bringing the best social experiences from across the Web to Yahoo! consumers around the world.

"More and more, people rely on social sites to share and discover information that matters to them, making Yahoo! uniquely positioned to provide people with all of the mainstream methods of content discovery - social, search, communications, and editorial," said Cody Simms, senior director of Social Platforms and Yahoo! Developer Network (YDN) at Yahoo!. "Starting with Facebook, we are bringing all of these elements together to give people one simple, trusted place to share information and connect. We think this offers great benefit to people across the web, and it's key to helping Yahoo! extend our reach and increase engagement."

Today's announcement covers:

* Facebook Integration -- Yahoo! has reached an important milestone in its partnership with Facebook. Starting this week, people who use both Yahoo! and Facebook can link their accounts and view and share updates with friends across both networks. People who connect their accounts can consume their Facebook News Feed on the Yahoo! homepage and in Yahoo! Mail and other Yahoo! sites and services. Additionally, people who create and share content on Yahoo! sites - including Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Sports, Flickr, and many Yahoo! entertainment sites, such as omg!, Yahoo! TV, and Yahoo! Movies - can easily share their actions with friends back on Facebook. Additional integrations will be ongoing.
* A Refresh of Yahoo! Profiles -- Launched in October 2008, Yahoo! Profiles has allowed people to manage their identity and activities across Yahoo! from a central location. Yahoo! has refreshed the experience to make its privacy settings easier to use and to give people a central dashboard to manage what they share on Yahoo! from the external social accounts and apps that they have linked to Yahoo!, starting with Facebook and with others to come later this year. Yahoo! Profiles has been renamed Yahoo! Pulse to better reflect its broader ability to manage Yahoo! settings, privacy, and account links. The updated experience is available at http://pulse.yahoo.com.

"From news to sports to entertainment, Yahoo! sites provide ideal experiences to share with friends," said Ethan Beard, director of Facebook Developer Network. "By integrating with Facebook on a global scale, Yahoo! is building upon an already valuable brand to give people easy ways to share the content they enjoy on Yahoo! with their friends on Facebook."

Social and Yahoo! - Recent Milestones

Over the last few months, Yahoo! has been weaving the best social experiences from across the Web into the Yahoo! network to create more personally relevant online experiences for consumers worldwide, using its global cloud computing infrastructure. Upcoming and recent milestones include:

* Zynga Partnership - Later this year, Zynga, the company behind hit social games such as Farmville and Mafia Wars, has agreed to integrate its games into the Yahoo! Application Platform (YAP), making them available to people throughout the Yahoo! network.
* Koprol Acquisition - The recent acquisition of Koprol extends Yahoo!'s social, mobile, and local offerings and focuses on the intersection of location, community expertise, and mobile experiences.
* Yahoo! Updates "Firehose" - Earlier this year, the Yahoo! Updates firehose API -- which aggregates social updates from Yahoo! and other sites across the Web and makes them easily available to publishers and developers -- was rolled out.
* Citizen Sports Acquisition - Strengthening Yahoo!'s overall social strategy, the recent acquisition of Citizen Sports brings the world of sports to Facebook and mobile devices through innovative applications.
* Facebook Contacts Integration - Yahoo! Mail launched import contact functionality from Facebook into Yahoo! Contacts so people can build a more robust online address book.
* Facebook "Like button" - Facebook users who visit Yahoo! Finance and Yahoo! Sports can now easily "like" items such as sports teams or stock quote pages and share those actions with friends on Facebook.
* Twitter Partnership - Earlier this year, Yahoo! announced a global partnership to integrate Twitter's real-time social experiences across Yahoo!. Yahoo! Search results already draw from the full stream of public tweets, and the broader agreement is scheduled for implementation later this year.
* Developer & Publisher Solutions - A suite of social APIs and services enable publishers like the Huffington Post and thousands of others to leverage the power of the Y!OS social platform via partnerships with JS-Kit Echo, Meebo, Gigya, Jan-Rain, among others. More information is at http://developer.yahoo.com/publisher.

Yahoo! is deeply committed to privacy - not just as a written policy, but as a fundamental consideration applied to each and every Yahoo! site and service. Yahoo! offers simple controls so that everyone can change who sees their updates, or turn off their updates stream at any time. To find out more, go to Yahoo.com and search for "Yahoo! privacy settings" or visit http://pulse.yahoo.com/y/settings.

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David Beckham Signs With Yahoo! as Global Football Ambassador Tweet

Worldwide Icon Brings Fans Closer to World's Most Popular Sport With Exclusive Content Only on Yahoo!

SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA -- This summer, Yahoo!'s (NASDAQ:YHOO) more than 600 million global users will have even more reason to visit http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/football/world-cup/ as global football star David Beckham will be featured exclusively as part of the company's unrivalled sports coverage.

This partnership brings together the world's largest online media company and the world's most iconic sports star to offer exclusive content only found on Yahoo! for Yahoo!'s coverage of the World Cup and the 2010/11 football season.

"Yahoo! has a true relationship with fans and is an online leader in sports content across the globe," said David Beckham. "Yahoo will allow me to interact one on one with as many football fans as possible talking about the game I love."

Beckham will also be featured in the second phase of Yahoo!'s global integrated marketing campaign throughout the duration of the World Cup in select markets. The campaign focuses on showcasing specific products, services, and experiences that users can find only on Yahoo!. The goal of the campaign is to drive more people to search, use and talk about Yahoo! through exciting and experiential demonstrations of our unique ability to bring my world and the world together.

Yahoo! is an increasingly open and social platform, with users coming to Yahoo! to discover, share and chat with friends about the things that matter to them most. For Yahoo!'s campaign for its World Cup coverage, fans will discover exclusive content from Beckham in addition to its already robust offering of microsites, compelling mobile experiences, fantasy games and search tools for more than 20 countries. Three main components to the partnership between Yahoo! and David Beckham include:

-- David Beckham channel within Yahoo! Sport's coverage of the World Cup,
where Beckham will share his thoughts and his experience on playing and
scoring in three consecutive tournaments.
-- In anticipation for the 2010/11 football season, football fans will have
the opportunity to directly connect to David Beckham and ask him
questions through various Yahoo! channels, including Yahoo! Answers,
Y!Mail and Y!Messenger.
-- Beckham's participation in the Yahoo! marketing campaign throughout the
summer of sport.

"Yahoo! is all about providing users with content that engages and excites them around their passions, and who other than a global personality like David Beckham to deliver just that for football fans," said Elisa Steele, Yahoo!'s Chief Marketing Officer. "David's experience in three consecutive World Cup championships combined with his club experience in both Europe and the US gives him a unique perspective on football and the World Cup and we are happy to broadcast his message to our nearly 600 million users."

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Yahoo! Gives Parents a B+ for Taking Action to Protect Children Online Tweet

Internet Safety Month Survey Reveals Dads Are Taking More Action Than Moms When It Comes to Children's Online Safety.

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- To honor National Internet Safety Month in June, Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) is sharing data discovered from a recent survey exploring how parents monitor children's online behavior and how people manage their digital reputations. As a longtime industry leader in child safety, Yahoo! continues to make safety a company priority by supporting efforts to educate children, parents, adults, and communities about safe online experiences.

Yahoo! conducted the online survey with Ipsos OTX in April 2010 to gain insight into consumers' behaviors and perceptions with respect to online safety. The survey is based on a sample size of 2,003 Internet users in the United States, ages 18-64 years old.

Parents are taking action, but cyber-bullying education is needed:

Yahoo! celebrates the parents who are proactively monitoring their children's online safety and are having appropriate discussions with their kids. The Yahoo! survey shows:

* 78% of parents are concerned about their children's online safety.
* 70% of parents talk to their children about online safety at least 2-3 times a year; 45% talk to their children at least once a month.
* 74% of parents are connected to their children's profiles on social networking sites.
* 71% of parents have taken at least one action to manage their children's use of the Internet or cell phones such as:
o Check to see where children are searching online.
o Set time limits for children's use of computers or cell phones.
o Set parental controls on video sites.
o Use filters to limit where children go on the Web.

It was no surprise to discover that cyberbullying continues to be a concern for parents. While parents are acutely aware of the potential issues, they are unsure of appropriate action. Data shows:

* 81% of parents know what cyberbullying is.
* 1 in 4 adults (25%) who are aware of cyberbullying have either been victims or know someone else affected by cyberbullying.
* 37% of parents feel that they know what to do about cyberbullying.
* Almost three-quarters (73%) of people want their child's school to play an active role in teaching kids about online safety and citizenship.

Dads are doing their part, and then some:

Today's fathers spend more time with their children than three decades ago and take on more household responsibilities, according to the Families and Work Institute1. The Yahoo! survey found that some of that quality time is devoted to helping children navigate the Web and other technology.

* 71% of dads (compared to 63% of moms) say they are taking at least one action to help manage their children's online behavior including having conversations about respecting the privacy of others and checking their children's privacy settings.
o More dads than moms have had a conversation with their children about their digital reputations and how to promote a positive online reputation.
* Fathers more often check to see what personal information can be easily found about their children by searching for their names online.
o 53% of dads surveyed told us they plug their children's names into a search engine at least 2-3 times per year (compared to 38% of moms) - 33% of dads told us they do this search at least once a month.
* Dads spend slightly more time talking to their children about online safety. 47% of dads have the conversation at least once a month or more; 42% of moms have the conversation at least once a month or more.
* According to the survey, more dads than moms use filters to limit where their kids go online, and more dads monitor the time children send text messages and how many text messages they send.

"Yahoo! applauds the parents who are taking an active role in keeping their kids safer online, and we want to give them valuable advice and resources so they can earn an 'A' for their efforts," said Catherine Teitelbaum, director of child safety, Yahoo! Inc. "We encourage parents to use Yahoo! Safely -- an online resource catered to kids, parents, and educators which provides relevant, up-to-date strategies and tools to help foster safer online experiences."

Yahoo! Safely (safely.yahoo.com) helps inform parents, students, and teachers about online safety through timely videos, simple strategies, and advice from nonprofit safety experts. Yahoo! Safely offers the following tips for young people to help prevent cyberbullying:

* Own your digital reputation. The Internet is a public space, so before you share photos or personal details, make sure it's info that you'd share with teachers, colleges, or job prospects.
* Keep your private information under your control. Keeping Internet conversations (and your user names/profiles) free of personal information like your password, full name, or even the name of your school, is important.
* Be nice (and pass it on)! Be respectful online and treat people the way you'd want to be treated. If someone is being disrespectful or bullying you, try to ignore them and use privacy tools to block them from viewing your full profile and contacting you.
* Know your rights. You have the right to not respond to email or other messages that are inappropriate or make you feel uncomfortable. If you get a message that doesn't feel right, show it to your parents, guardians, or another trusted adult and report the incident to your Internet service provider.
* Have a family chat. Talking with your parents or guardians doesn't mean giving up your privacy. Everyone benefits when you're on the same page about online activities, including when you can go online, how long you can stay, and what activities you can do online.

People need to take control of their digital reputations:

Education is key to empowering people to protect their digital reputations, and according to the recent Yahoo! online safety survey, 65% of people do not know or are not sure what a digital footprint2 is and 31% do not feel they are in control of their online image3.

The survey also concluded that 48% of respondents do not realize or are not sure if the information they put on the Web will remain online forever and 7% think that it won't remain online forever if they simply delete it. Some other key findings include:

* 20% of people plug their own name into a search engine once a month or more; 49% do it 2-3 times a year or less.
* Adults ages 18-34 are more proactive about managing their digital profiles than adults 35-49 and adults 50+.
* These are the top three actions young adults take to manage their digital profiles:
o Limit personal information available on social networking sites/blogs.
o Keep strict privacy settings on social networking sites/blogs.
o Avoid allowing people access to social networking sites/blogs unless there is a relationship offline.

Teitelbaum commented, "Everyone should conduct an online search of their name or their child's name once a month. It's not a vanity search. It's learning what's out there and ultimately taking control of your digital reputation."

Yahoo! recommends these simple tips to manage a digital reputation:

* Know your connections: Only connect with people you know offline.
* Think before you post: Once something is posted online, it's virtually impossible to take back because words, pictures, and videos can be easily forwarded, copied, and taken out of context.
* Protect your personal information: Posting personal information or photos can identify you to strangers. Never reveal personal information to people unless you are friends with them offline.
* Configure your settings: Take the time to understand the profile settings that are available to you on websites and social networks, and tailor those settings for you.
* Understand your digital footprint: On a monthly basis, search for your name on search engines, like Yahoo! Search, and on social networks to understand what type of content is associated with you.

To learn more about how to be safer online, go to Yahoo.com and search for "online safety."

About Yahoo!'s child safety efforts:

Yahoo! is a longtime industry leader on child safety and has made it a company priority to protect children online by creating tools for people to safeguard themselves and by supporting efforts to educate children, parents, adults, and communities about safer online experiences. Yahoo! operates a safety site, Yahoo! Safely (safely.yahoo.com), that has distinct resources and links for teens and parents, as well as informative content from safety experts including Common Sense Media, ConnectSafely, and WiredSafety. The site also hosts comprehensive guides for safer practices for using Yahoo! products including Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo! Groups, and more. Yahoo also provides online safety information and tools and tips in the parents' section of Yahoo! Kids and the parenting section of Yahoo! Shine.

Yahoo! supports the work of several nonprofit Internet safety organizations including Common Sense Media, ConnectSafely, FOSI, Internet Keep Safe Coalition, National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, and WiredSafety, as well as related efforts from other groups such as Ad Council, CARU/BBB, and NCSA. Yahoo! works collaboratively with its industry peers, child safety groups, and law enforcement to find new ways to protect children online.

About Yahoo!

Yahoo! attracts hundreds of millions of users every month through its innovative technology and engaging content and services, making it one of the most visited Internet destinations and a world-class online media company. Yahoo!'s vision is to be the center of people's online lives by delivering personally relevant, meaningful Internet experiences. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. For more information, visit http://pressroom.yahoo.com or the company's blog, Yodel Anecdotal (http://yodel.yahoo.com).

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Yahoo! Gets Its Game on with Zynga Tweet

Partnership Weaves the Web's Most Popular Social Games throughout Yahoo!

SUNNYVALE, Calif., -- Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), announced a partnership with Zynga that will integrate Zynga's popular social games through Yahoo!'s global network. The partnership enables Zynga games to reach more than 600 million people worldwide across Yahoo!, giving them access to new and deeper ways to engage with friends and make new ones.

Zynga's game integration with Yahoo! is part of Yahoo!'s commitment to offer personally relevant experiences to people from across the Web. Zynga games are expected to roll out on the Yahoo! network in the coming months and will include:

* Ability for people to play Zynga games and access their personal Zynga game updates across Yahoo!'s properties including the Homepage, Yahoo! Games, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Messenger and others.
* Sharing of updates across multiple social experiences simultaneously while playing their favorite Zynga games on Yahoo!
* Product integration of Zynga games with the Yahoo! Application Platform (YAP), Yahoo!'s OpenSocial container through which third-party developers can develop applications on Yahoo!

"Yahoo is focused on providing compelling, personally relevant experiences and social games are core to this experience," said Hilary Schneider, executive vice president, Yahoo! Americas. "Zynga will bring top notch social game experiences to Yahoo!, including through our open platforms such as Yahoo! Application Platform and Yahoo! Updates. Yahoo! will also continue to work with other partners, developers and publishers to bring compelling innovations and experiences from across the web to our users."

"With over 35 million unique users playing our games every single day, social games are fast becoming a leading source of entertainment worldwide surpassing most television shows," said Mark Pincus, founder and CEO of Zynga. "Our partnership with Yahoo! gives millions of new users the ability to connect with friends and families through games."

Today's partnership along with Yahoo!'s recently announced Facebook and Twitter relationships brings together social experiences from across the web and extends Yahoo!'s social strategy by providing multiple places across Yahoo! for people to play social games, access and share information, and connect with the people that matter to them the most.

About Yahoo!

Yahoo! attracts hundreds of millions of users every month through its innovative technology and engaging content and services, making it one of the most trafficked Internet destinations and a world-class online media company. Yahoo!'s vision is to be the center of people's online lives by delivering personally relevant, meaningful Internet experiences. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. For more information, visit pressroom.yahoo.com or the company's blog, Yodel Anecdotal (yodel.yahoo.com).

About Zynga

Zynga has over 230 million monthly active users playing its games. These games include FarmVille, Treasure Isle, Zynga Poker, Mafia Wars, YoVille, Café World, FishVille and PetVille. Zynga games are available on Facebook, MySpace and the iPhone. Through Zynga.org, Zynga players have raised over $3 million for world social causes. Zynga is headquartered in Potrero Hill in San Francisco. For more information, visit www.Zynga.com or www.Zynga.org.

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Nokia and Yahoo!: A conversation between Tero Ojanpera and Jason Titus Tweet

Nokia and Yahoo announced a strategic partnership where Yahoo!'s mapping services will be powered by Ovi and Nokia's Ovi Chat and Ovi Mail services will be powered by Yahoo!.

Tero Ojanpera, Executive Vice President, Services, Nokia and Jason Titus, Vice President, Communications Products, Yahoo! discuss why the partnership makes sense and what it means.

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Yahoo! Acquires Koprol; Extends Social and Mobile Strategy With Location-Based Community Tweet

Yahoo! today announced the acquisition of Koprol. Headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia, Koprol extends Yahoos social, mobile and local offerings and focuses on the intersection of location, community expertise and mobile experiences that have become important trends around the globe. Koprol enables users to interact and share knowledge about their community in a way that is uniquely tailored to mobile phones.

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Yahoo! Acquires Koprol; Extends Social and Mobile Strategy With Location-Based Community Tweet

Expands Offerings in Rapidly Growing Emerging Markets.

SUNNYVALE, Calif. & JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) announced the acquisition of Koprol. Headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia, Koprol extends Yahoo's social, mobile and local offerings and focuses on the intersection of location, community expertise and mobile experiences that have become important trends around the globe. Koprol enables users to interact and share knowledge about their community in a way that is uniquely tailored to mobile phones.

Koprol allows people to connect and share photos, reviews and additional information about locations in real-time using just their mobile phone browser, making the service accessible to a larger percentage of mobile users. Once on Koprol, people can "check-in" to their current location and see where others are and what they are doing. The service helps people find local businesses, such as popular shops or restaurants, based on user ratings including a "thumbs-up" feature to elevate favorite places to the top of the ranking. Users can also start or join discussions based on particular locations and invite friends to participate, creating a unique city-based social mobile community resource.

"Users are increasingly relying on mobile devices to communicate and access the Internet and they are looking for seamless integration between those devices and PCs. This is especially true in many emerging markets where we are introducing the Yahoo! brand to many new-to-Net users," said Rose Tsou, senior vice president, Asia Region at Yahoo!. "Koprol was uniquely designed for mobile phones and within a year has already built a strong user base. Yahoo! provides the global scale and technology to accelerate growth in Indonesia as well as introduce the service to new markets."

Yahoo! is focused on providing personally relevant content to its global users on multiple devices and access points. Koprol aggregates a database of locations within a city, created through its community, so that people can find friends or discover new local businesses, neighborhood resources and discussions that are important to them. Yahoo! plans to leverage the rich community of information generated by Koprol users to make its properties and applications, including its homepage and media and communications products, even more locally relevant.

"We are excited to join Yahoo! and look forward to the opportunities being part of a global Internet leader presents," said Fajar Budiprasetyo, CEO and co-founder of Koprol. "From the beginning, we have leveraged Yahoo!'s open technologies to help build our business, and it was just six months ago when we were showcased at the Yahoo! Hack Day held in Indonesia. This is a great success story for the online community in Indonesia and demonstrates that innovation is recognized wherever it occurs."

Yahoo! will continue to invest in evolving Koprol's service, such as the new BlackBerry(TM) application introduced today, and expects to announce new mobile applications for both local and global mobile platforms in the future.

Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

About Yahoo!

Yahoo! attracts hundreds of millions of users every month through its innovative technology and engaging content and services, making it one of the most visited Internet destinations and a world-class online media company. Yahoo!'s vision is to be the center of people's online lives by delivering personally relevant, meaningful Internet experiences. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. For more information, visit pressroom.yahoo.com or the company's blog, Yodel Anecdotal (yodel.yahoo.com).

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Nokia and Yahoo! team up in online services Tweet

New York, USA – Today Yahoo! and Nokia have joined forces to create enhanced, online experiences that help you communicate and locate. The pair have been working together over the past five years on a number of projects, from launching Yahoo! Go Mobile on Nokia devices to Nokia devices’ ability to upload pics onto Flickr. This latest venture, their biggest to date, will see improvements to email, instant messaging, maps and navigation services. Join us after the break to find out what changes the new alliance will bring.

As part of the alliance Nokia will be the exclusive provider of Yahoo!’s maps and navigation services, branded as “powered by Ovi.” Nokia brings its ample experience in top-drawer, location-based products and maps to Yahoo!’s users. In turn, Yahoo! will become the exclusive global provider of Nokia’s Ovi Mail and Ovi Chat services, branded as “powered by Yahoo!.” Yahoo! brings its expertise in world-class internet offerings to the table for Ovi users.

Changes will also come in the form of Nokia and Yahoo! working together to improve access to a number of services. Initially, users with an Ovi ID will be able to unlock a myriad of handy internet and handset-based goodness from both partners. Some of the pain involved in trying to remember which of your hundreds of passwords you used may soon be over.

Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, CEO, Nokia had this to say about the announcement:

“We’re enabling millions of Yahoo! customers in key markets including North America to discover the unique capabilities that Ovi Maps brings. Similarly, Yahoo!’s online expertise will bring exciting mail and messaging enhancements to millions of Ovi Mail customers across almost every country around the world, many of whom will have their first Internet experience on their mobile.”

Carol Bartz, CEO, Yahoo! joined OPK in his enthusiasm:

“We’re excited to expand the reach of our best-in-class Mail and Messenger services, bringing personalized experiences to more people across the mobile Web, particularly in emerging markets where we are seeding the next generation of Yahoo! users. At the same time, we believe Nokia’s strength and continued investment in maps and navigation will greatly enhance our existing products, enabling us to focus on areas that are core to our business.”

The collaboration will see benefits to both Yahoo! and Nokia. Nokia will be able to engage with Yahoo!’s millions of users, particularly in the U.S. and vice versa. Ovi Mail regulars will be able to tap into new experiences and it’ll extend Yahoo!’s reach in emerging markets. All in all, it looks a pretty rosy deal.

Select co-branded offerings are expected to become available from the second half of 2010, with global availability in 2011.

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Nokia and Yahoo! to bring integrated web services to millions of consumers around the world Tweet

Global strategic alliance enables industry leaders to leverage strengths in e-mail, instant messaging, maps and navigation across PC and mobile devices.

New York, NY, USA - Yahoo! and Nokia announced a worldwide strategic alliance to extend the reach of their industry leading online services and offer people rich experiences that keep them connected to their world and the world around them.

Building on more than five years of collaboration, Nokia and Yahoo! ® will leverage each others' strengths in e-mail, instant messaging and maps and navigation services, to provide consumers with access to world-class experiences on both PC and mobile devices.

As part of the alliance:
- Nokia will be the exclusive, global provider of Yahoo!'s maps and navigation services, integrating Ovi Maps across Yahoo! properties, branded as "powered by Ovi."
- Yahoo! will become the exclusive, global provider of Nokia's Ovi Mail and Ovi Chat services branded as "Ovi Mail / Ovi Chat powered by Yahoo!"
- Nokia and Yahoo! plan to work on ID federation between their services, beginning by making it easy for people to use their Ovi user IDs across select Yahoo! properties to easily access the online content and services they need.

"Delivering great user experiences -- both online and on your mobile - is what this alliance is all about," said Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, CEO, Nokia. "We're enabling millions of Yahoo! customers in key markets including North America to discover the unique capabilities that Ovi Maps brings. Similarly, Yahoo!'s online expertise will bring exciting mail and messaging enhancements to millions of Ovi Mail customers across almost every country around the world, many of whom will have their first Internet experience on their mobile."

"What a combination," said Carol Bartz, CEO, Yahoo!. "We're excited to expand the reach of our best-in-class Mail and Messenger services, bringing personalized experiences to more people across the mobile web, particularly in emerging markets where we are seeding the next generation of Yahoo! users. At the same time, we believe Nokia's strength and continued investment in maps and navigation will greatly enhance our existing products, enabling us to focus on areas that are core to our business."

Together, Yahoo! and Nokia will continue to deliver compelling Internet experiences that address the core needs of consumers, developers, operators and advertisers. The companies will utilize their respective global distribution advantages and brand recognition across consumer audiences.

Select, co-branded service offerings are expected to become available from the second half of 2010, with global availability expected in 2011.

Nokia is the world's largest mobile device manufacturer, with hundreds of millions of devices sold each year and a leader in digital mapping, with continuing investment and innovation focused on developing comprehensive digital mapping and navigation services, now covering 77 countries in 46 languages. With more than 600 million users of Yahoo!-branded sites per month, Yahoo! is a global Internet powerhouse, a one-stop web destination enabling consumers to enjoy their online life anywhere and everywhere - all customized for their interests. As one of the leading Internet brands, Yahoo! is focused on growing its audience by providing seamless web experiences across PC and mobile devices.

Note to editors: Media materials, including a webcast replay, can be found at pressroom.yahoo.com and www.nokia.com/press.

About Nokia
At Nokia, we are committed to connecting people. We combine advanced technology with personalized services that enable people to stay close to what matters to them. Every day, more than 1.2 billion people connect to one another with a Nokia device - from mobile phones to advanced smartphones and high-performance mobile computers. Today, Nokia is integrating its devices with innovative services through Ovi (www.ovi.com), including music, maps, apps, email and more. Nokia's NAVTEQ is a leader in comprehensive digital mapping and navigation services, while Nokia Siemens Networks provides equipment, services and solutions for communications networks globally.

For more information, visit www.nokia.com/press or the company's blog, Nokia Conversations (conversations.nokia.com).

About Yahoo!
Yahoo! attracts hundreds of millions of users every month through its innovative technology and engaging content and services, making it one of the most visited Internet destinations and a world-class online media company. Yahoo!'s vision is to be the center of people's online lives by delivering personally relevant, meaningful Internet experiences. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. For more information, visit pressroom.yahoo.com or the company's blog, Yodel Anecdotal (yodel.yahoo.com).

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Exclusive: Yahoo Poised to Unveil “Project Nike” Partnership Deal With Nokia at Monday Event Tweet

Yahoo sent out an invite for a press conference in New York on Monday with a mysterioso tone:

It read, vaguely:

“Please join Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz for an exciting announcement about providing global consumers with rich online and mobile experiences, and bringing forward a new era in keeping consumers connected.”

That’s all it took to get BoomTown on the horn to find out what that meant.

And, according to sources, that will be a deal with Finland-based mobile phone giant Nokia (NOK) to build Yahoo (YHOO) email, search and other applications and services into a range of its devices.

While the pair had once discussed Nokia making a Yahoo-centric phone, sources said that is unlikely to be part of this deal.

Such a partnership–code-named “Project Nike” after the Greek goddess of victory and not the sneaker–has been batted around for many years between the companies without result, even as Google (GOOG) and Apple (AAPL) have grabbed the spotlight and business in the exploding smartphone market.

Yahoo has had a range of various mobile initiatives and has had many, mostly failed, partnerships with carriers and telecom makers.

But without its own phone or mobile operating system, such as Google’s Android, the Internet giant is essentially nowhere in what has become the most important digital sector today.

Nokia, which makes more mobile devices–mostly “feature” phones, not smartphones–than any other company, has also struggled to keep up the lightning-fast pace of innovation and has been looking for ways to compete as the landscape shifts dramatically.

That’s why the long-festering deal was placed again on the fast track, especially by Bartz, who has put a lot of emphasis of late on showing Yahoo to be more relevant and cutting-edge.

Thus, the Nokia deal is likely to be a splashy centerpiece of next week’s investor day on Wednesday in Silicon Valley, which will feature Bartz and her senior management, including Americas EVP Hilary Schneider.

Schneider has played a lead role in the Nokia deal, which sources said closed two to three weeks ago.

Bartz will also be appearing at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in New York next week, a speaker addition that will be announced soon, where she is likely to discuss the deal.

Yahoo has been on a bit of a deal tear of late, purchasing social publishing start-up Associated Content for $90 million earlier this week.

And while the Nokia deal will likely garner a lot of attention when announced, execution will–as usual–be key in determining if this works, especially since both companies are now in a much weaker position.

“Recently, Nokia has offered devices that people don’t want and Yahoo has launched mobile services that they don’t want,” said one person familiar with the talks. “Perhaps in working together, they will find a way to finally create some value.”

Yahoo declined to comment and Nokia has not responded to an email I sent tonight.

soure

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Yahoo! to Host Investor Day Tweet

Live Webcast Available

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Yahoo! Inc.:
WHO: Carol Bartz, CEO; Tim Morse, EVP & CFO; Hilary Schneider, EVP Yahoo! Americas and other select Yahoo! management.

WHAT: Yahoo! will host an Investor Day with senior leadership discussing Yahoo!'s strategy, business priorities and progress.

WHEN: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Pacific.
(Time Approximate)

HOW:

The live webcast of Yahoo!'s Analyst Day meeting can be viewed at: http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/events.cfm?CalendarID=3

An archive of the webcast will be available within 24 hours of the end of the event and can be viewed at the same link.

Note: The in-person event is by invitation only. The general public and media are invited to join the webcast.


ABOUT YAHOO!:

Yahoo! attracts hundreds of millions of users every month through its innovative technology and engaging content and services, making it one of the most trafficked Internet destinations and a world class online media company. Yahoo!'s vision is to be the center of people's online lives by delivering personally relevant, meaningful Internet experiences. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. For more information, visit http://pressroom.yahoo.com or the company's blog, Yodel Anecdotal (http://yodel.yahoo.com).

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Yahoo!'s Global Coverage of the World Cup Scores Big Tweet

Gives Fans a Chance to "Kick-It" Online and Offline.

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO) announced a big new content and marketing program to bring World Cup coverage to vivid life online and offline for its users around the world. As part of the broad program which includes a dedicated and highly customized World Soccer "channel" on the global Yahoo! network, Yahoo! will provide fans with complete coverage of the tournament including customized content across multiple platforms, innovative new products, and special events across the globe.

As hundreds of millions of soccer fans prepare for the world's biggest sporting event, Yahoo! is launching its first global initiative, which features microsites, compelling mobile experiences, fantasy games, and Yahoo! Search tools for more than 20 countries in 12 languages. To find out more, go to Yahoo.com and search for "Yahoo! coverage World Cup 2010."

"The World Cup evokes more passion than any other sporting event in existence, and as the historic 2010 event in South Africa approaches, Yahoo! is rolling out its first global initiative to deliver the most captivating, engaging experience to soccer fans around the world," said David Ko, senior vice president of audience, mobile and local for Yahoo!. "By delivering uninterrupted access to soccer coverage, scores, games, events, and athletes to fans around the world and in their own language, Yahoo! continues to execute on its vision to be the center of people's online lives."

Yahoo! Innovates for the World's Largest Sports Event

Yahoo!'s position as a technology leader continues as it applies innovation to this year's biggest sporting event. The company is providing consumers:

* New Shortcuts in Yahoo! Search results which will launch in more than 25 markets throughout the summer. These Shortcuts will provide rich information such as photos, videos, schedules, live scores, stats, team information and news, right on the Search results page.
* Real-time scores, schedules and breaking news, all of which fans can have at their fingertips by downloading the Yahoo! Toolbar with World Cup coverage. The toolbar can be customized with a country-themed skin to support any competing team.
* Yahoo! Sports World Soccer 2010, a pick'em style fantasy soccer game, which lets fans select winners for each match of the World Cup at us.wc.fantasysports.yahoo.com/world-cup. This is Yahoo!'s largest global launch of a fantasy product. Fans can play the game in 22 countries in 11 languages.
* Yahoo Penalty Shootout, an online game that allows fans to face off in a virtual penalty kick competition. Fans in more than a dozen countries will be able to play the game at sports.yahoo.com/soccer/world-cup/ starting at the end of May. Soccer fans will be able to compete with friends, other fans, and sworn soccer rivals from around the world for a chance to win the Yahoo! Sports Pass, tickets to any four premier sporting events in the world per year for the next four years.
* Predictalot from Yahoo! Labs, a fun experiment that puts the "wisdom of the crowd" about the World Cup to the test. Predictalot lets fans in every country make millions of interesting predictions, like "How many teams from Europe will advance to the quarterfinals? or "Will a country that has never won before win it all this year?"

Yahoo! Keeps Fans Connected With Customized Experiences for PC and Mobile Platforms

Yahoo! continues its tradition of providing fans with seamless online and mobile experiences. Fans can find comprehensive world soccer coverage at (sports.yahoo.com/soccer/world-cup/). Yahoo! enables fans to get breaking news, scores, player stats, live commentary, and video from Yahoo! Sports, the No. 1 online sports destination.

Yahoo!'s coverage includes:

* On-the-ground reporting from South Africa by award-winning writers Dan Wetzel, Martin Rogers, and Les Carpenter.
* "World Soccer Roundup," a daily video news show that will recap top stories and give information on upcoming World Cup events.
* Dirty Tackle, a leading soccer blog from editor Brooks Peck, and contributors Richard Whittall and Ryan Bailey.

Later this month, Yahoo! will launch a comprehensive mobile site covering the World Cup 2010, providing up to the minute scores, schedules, standings, news, player profiles and more. The site will be available in 40 markets, covering 13 languages and accessible across more than 4,500 types of mobile devices. Simply visit http://m.yahoo.com/worldcup from your phone to keep up to date on the latest.

Yahoo! Covers the Globe

For the first time ever, Yahoo! is hosting special events around the globe for soccer-loving fans in Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Korea, Indonesia, Spain, and the United Kingdom. For the events Yahoo! has teamed with some of the sport's most elite goalkeepers, past and present, to surprise fans worldwide. Yahoo!'s cloud is powering Yahoo!'s Coverage of the World Cup and creating a borderless Yahoo! community on the web for this global event.

Yahoo! Offers Advertisers Unique Opportunities

This year's coverage of the World Cup throughout the Yahoo! network offers new and exciting opportunities for advertising and marketing partners, as well. From co-branding opportunities at Yahoo! offline events through online advertising opportunities at country and international levels, Yahoo! has marketing options to help the world's biggest global brands participate in the excitement.

"Our program is not just about compelling content and amazing experiences that only Yahoo! can offer to our users, but also about the very best integrated marketing in today's digital age," said Yahoo! EVP and CMO Elisa Steele. "Our unique value to advertisers is an unmatched combination of science, art, and scale. And in this case, we are able to offer global scale with quality editorial and fun offline activities and coverage for fans in cities from Berlin to Seoul."

Advertisers or marketers who want to do more with Yahoo! should visit http://advertising.yahoo.com/advertisers.

About Yahoo!

Yahoo! attracts hundreds of millions of users every month through its innovative technology and engaging content and services, making it one of the most visited Internet destinations and a world-class online media company. Yahoo!'s vision is to be the center of people's online lives by delivering personally relevant, meaningful Internet experiences. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. For more information, visit pressroom.yahoo.com or the company's blog, Yodel Anecdotal (yodel.yahoo.com).

Yahoo! is the trademark and/or registered trademark of Yahoo! Inc.

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Yahoo! to Acquire Associated Content Tweet

Extending Leadership in Content With the Addition of 380,000 Contributors.

SUNNYVALE, Calif., -- Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Associated Content Inc. This strategic move extends Yahoo's ability to provide high quality, personally relevant content for the benefit of more than 600 million users as well as tens of thousands of advertisers. As Yahoo! enhances its social, mobile, local, and media offerings, the acquisition of Associated Content reinforces the company's longstanding promise to offer the best of the Web -- by combining Associated Content's approximately 380,000 contributors who provide rich and varied content on a broad array of passion points, with Yahoo's leadership in partnering with established content brands and the award-winning team of editors and experts from Yahoo!.

"Combining our world-class editorial team with Associated Content's makes this a game-changer," said Carol Bartz, CEO, Yahoo! Inc. "Together, we'll create more content around what we know our users care about, and open up new and creative avenues for advertisers to engage with consumers across our network. These are important aspects of building engaging consumer experiences on Yahoo!, and one of the reasons why we're one of the most visited destinations online."

"The Associated Content team and our 380,000 contributors are looking forward to joining Yahoo! and to the opportunities that being part of a global Internet brand presents," said Luke Beatty, Associated Content founder and president. "Combining our crowd sourced content with Yahoo!'s distribution, world class editorial team and online marketing leadership will accelerate our growth as we continue to leverage our best-of-breed platform to deliver high quality compelling content on more than 60,000 topics."

For advertisers, this deal will expand Yahoo! into more topic areas and real-time content generation. The combination promises to offer advertisers even more opportunities to engage groups of passionate consumers in ways they will find uniquely appealing to their interests and tastes. Having insight into user intent through its leading search products enables Yahoo! to identify topics important to advertisers and users. Yahoo! plans to use Associated Content to create content around those topics and leverage Associated Content to contribute content to existing media properties. Associated Content also provides more opportunities for Yahoo! to partner and collaborate with publishers who can help the company shape the tremendous variety of content coming in, into something bespoke and even more engaging.

While current Associated Content content is U.S.-centric, Yahoo! expects to scale the platform globally.

Associated Content was founded by Luke Beatty in Denver, Colorado, in 2004. Associated Content receives more than 16 million unique users per month (comScore) and the editorial staff reviews more than 50,000 pieces of content per month, including articles, images, audio and video.

Yahoo! expects to complete this acquisition in the third quarter of 2010. Financial terms were not disclosed.

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Samsung and Yahoo! Form Strategic Partnership for Mobile Phones Tweet

Companies Partner to Distribute Yahoo! Services Including Yahoo! Go for Mobile 2.0 and Yahoo! oneSearch(TM) on New Samsung Mobile Phones Worldwide.

SEOUL, South Korea & LAS VEGAS — Samsung, a leading provider and innovator of mobile phones, and Yahoo! (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, announced a strategic global partnership to distribute Yahoo!’s popular services on millions of new Samsung mobile phones in more than 60 countries. Samsung will pre-load Yahoo! services, including Yahoo! Go for Mobile 2.0, Yahoo! oneSearch, Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger, on its mobile phones beginning in the first half of 2007. This new relationship is the latest demonstration of the companies’ clear focus on extending their leadership in the mobile Internet.

Samsung has already launched its first mobile handset, the SGH-E570, pre-loaded with Yahoo! Search. Samsung plans to greatly expand the number of its mobile handsets with pre-loaded Yahoo! services in 2007 and will roll out Yahoo! oneSearch after it goes live globally in the coming months.

“Samsung recognizes consumers’ need for Internet access through their mobiles anytime, anywhere,” said Kitae Lee, president of Samsung’s telecommunications network business. “Samsung mobile phones with Yahoo! services will provide consumers with fast and convenient access to the Internet, even on the move. Our successful partnership with Yahoo! builds on Samsung’s continuing efforts to enhance consumers’ mobile experience.”

Through the relationship the companies will also help drive consumer adoption of mobile Internet services by making it easy for consumers to get more done while on the go, such as using the new Yahoo! oneSearch to quickly find the answers they need. Yahoo! oneSearch will also include high-quality sponsored search results, enabling Yahoo! advertisers to reach consumers on their mobile devices.

“Yahoo! has always focused on partnering with leading companies to bring our mobile services to consumers’ fingertips and this new strategic partnership with Samsung is a vital component of that strategy,” said Marco Boerries, senior vice president of connected life, Yahoo!.

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Samsung mobile phones with Yahoo! services will be available to consumers through both mobile operators and direct distribution channels. Consumers around the world can download and use the beta version of Yahoo! Go 2.0 on select Samsung mobile phones beginning today by visiting http://go.yahoo.com.

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Yahoo! and Samsung Extend Strategic Global Partnership for Mobile Tweet

Yahoo! Services to Be Pre-loaded on Tens of Millions of Devices Worldwide.

SUNNYVALE, Calif. & SEOUL, South Korea -- Yahoo! (R) (NASDAQ: YHOO) announced a strategic global partnership with Samsung to distribute Yahoo!'s industry-leading services on millions of Samsung mobile devices - including those running Samsung bada and Android platforms. Through this partnership Samsung will distribute Yahoo! services, including Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo! Front Page, Yahoo! Search, Yahoo! Flickr, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Contacts, Yahoo! Calendar, and Yahoo! Weather on Samsung's mobile devices globally, currently planned to begin in May 2010.

Samsung and Yahoo! have partnered since 2007 to provide consumers with innovative and engaging Internet experiences on mobile devices. The expansion of this relationship will give millions more Samsung device owners easy access to Yahoo!'s leading services.

"By making our most popular Yahoo! services available on Samsung mobile devices around the world, we're providing consumers with personally relevant mobile Internet experiences that make it easy for them to stay connected to what's important to them and explore the full potential of their device," said David Ko, senior vice president, Audience, Mobile and Local for Yahoo!. "We're thrilled to deepen our relationship with Samsung and look forward to continuing to drive the global adoption of mobile Internet services."

"We want to provide our customers with the best possible services designed to enhance their mobile experience," said Kenny Lee, vice president of content planning at Samsung. "Our relationship with Yahoo! continues to grow and benefit our global consumer base, who wants access popular Yahoo! services from their Samsung phone."

Samsung phones may come pre-loaded with one or more Yahoo! branded services:

* Yahoo! Mail - Access your favorite Web mail features: Read, reply, compose and send mail; view attachments; get to your personal mail folders; and organize messages by customizable groups.
* Yahoo! Messenger - Message your friends reliably in real time: view their availability and quickly see their status messages; update your own status; and show your style with emoticons, avatars, or photos.
* Yahoo! Contacts and Calendar - Look up and/or add contact information and update your calendar.
* Yahoo! Mobile Front Page - Bring together your favorite content and services from anywhere across the Internet to one location.
* Yahoo! Search - Get exactly the information and answers you need when you are on the go. Search results are grouped around your query, providing the most relevant information on a single screen.
* Yahoo! Flickr - Take, share, and discover photos and videos; geo-tag photos; and email them to your Flickr account from your Samsung phone.
* Yahoo! News - Get the news you're interested in on your phone. Choose what is relevant to you from a complete list of news categories, including entertainment, sports, business, technology, and more.
* Yahoo! Finance - Follow broad market indices or a specific company and read the day's top news, research, and analysis to keep up-to-date about the financial world.
* Yahoo! Weather - View current weather conditions or a three-day forecast; search for weather conditions by city; find sunrise and sunset times; and get wind, visibility, humidity, and barometer readings.

About Yahoo!

Yahoo! attracts hundreds of millions of users every month through its innovative technology and engaging content and services, making it one of the most trafficked Internet destinations and a world-class online media company. Yahoo!'s vision is to be the center of people's online lives by delivering personally relevant, meaningful Internet experiences. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. For more information, visit http://pressroom.yahoo.com, the company's blog, Yodel Anecdotal (http://yodel.yahoo.com) or the Yahoo! Mobile blog (http://ymobileblog.com). (YHOO -- M)

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Yahoo! and Nahdet El Mahrousa Launch Social Entrepreneurship Competition for Young Professionals in Egypt Tweet

'Social Innovation Starts With YOU' campaign will feature 10 successful Egyptian entrepreneurs; winners will receive grants and support to help bring their ideas to life.

SUNNYVALE, Calif. & CAIRO -- Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) underscores its commitment to the Arabic-speaking world by announcing a new social entrepreneurship campaign and competition in partnership with Nahdet El Mahrousa, an Egypt-based nongovernmental organization (NGO). Yahoo! Inc., Yahoo! Middle East, and Nahdet El Mahrousa are spearheading an unprecedented online campaign called "Social Innovation Starts With YOU" to encourage social entrepreneurship among young Egyptians.

This campaign is aligned with the U.S. Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship that will take place on April 26-27, 2010, in Washington, D.C., where Yahoo! cofounder Jerry Yang will deliver a keynote speech addressing entrepreneurship and innovation.

"Yahoo!'s announcement to acquire Maktoob last year shined the spotlight on tech entrepreneurs in the Arab world and the incredible potential and talent in the region that is largely untapped," said Ahmed Nassef, vice president and managing director of Yahoo! Middle East. "This partnership with Nahdet El Mahrousa continues our commitment to invigorate and grow the Internet market in the Middle East as a whole and will enable the next wave of tech entrepreneurs from Egypt to realize their dreams. We can't wait to see their innovative ideas!"

Social Innovation Starts With YOU

Today there are more than 16.5 million* Internet users in Egypt, representing one of the largest** Arab Internet populations. The "Social Innovation Starts With YOU" campaign is aimed at inspiring and motivating young online Egyptians. Starting in April, two successful Egyptian social entrepreneurs will be featured on the "Social Innovation Starts With YOU" website (http://eg.socialinnovation.yahoo.com), sharing their compelling stories and providing advice to up-and-coming entrepreneurs. In June, up to 10 entrepreneurs will be featured, and visitors to the website can vote for the entrepreneur who they think has made the biggest impact on their communities. The winner will be featured on the front page of Maktoob.com and invited to be a judge for the campaign's Social Innovation Competition.

In the Social Innovation Competition, launching in June, Yahoo! and Nahdet El Mahrousa will invite individuals from across Egypt to be the next social entrepreneurs of the year by developing new ideas in the fields of education, health, environment, and a wildcard category. The campaign's website will serve as an entry point for aspiring entrepreneurs by providing an online toolkit of inspirational stories, advice, resources, and Web services to get them started. Ten winners will be honored with monetary grants and technical and management support to help bring their ideas to life. Among the winners will be already existing social entrepreneurs who will receive support to scale their efforts and achieve wider impact. In total, Yahoo! will contribute $500,000 to the campaign, and as part of that, will provide close to $250,000 in monetary grants to awardees. In addition to monetary support, the awardees will receive training and mentoring support for three years to help ensure their success.

"In partnering with Yahoo!, we are furthering Nahdet El Mahrousa's mission to engage and activate young Egyptian professionals in the development and public arenas and in shaping Egypt's future," said Ehaab Abdou, cofounder and board member of Nahdet El Mahrousa. "The 'Social Innovation Starts With YOU' campaign will provide a valuable platform for budding social entrepreneurs in Egypt to help make their enterprise ideas become a reality, as well as help existing social enterprises scale up. As an added benefit, we believe that supporting emerging and existing enterprises will help create new jobs for Egypt and the region."

Builds on Yahoo! Middle East's Efforts

Yahoo!'s social entrepreneurship campaign with Nahdet El Mahrousa follows its announcement in August 2009 that Yahoo! had acquired Maktoob.com, the leading online community in the Arab world, which has more than 19 million unique users. This acquisition is part of Yahoo!'s larger strategy to grow its business throughout the world's emerging markets by connecting consumers with the content and services that matter most to them in their local language. Internet users benefit from the combination of Yahoo!'s popular products and services with Maktoob's compelling local content, which reaches one in three people online throughout the region. The acquisition extends Yahoo!'s current offerings by adding capabilities to deliver relevant Arabic-language content and services, as well as Arabic versions of Yahoo!'s popular Yahoo! Messenger and Yahoo! Mail services.

About Nahdet El Mahrousa

Nahdet El Mahrousa (NM), in Arabic meaning the Renaissance of Egypt, is an Egyptian youth-led non-governmental organization, established in November 2003 and registered with the Ministry of Social Solidarity. NM seeks to make a positive and lasting impact on Egypt's cultural, economic and social development through activating and engaging Egyptian youth in the country's development, public work and decision-making arenas. NM achieves these goals through its core program, the "Incubator of Innovative Social Enterprises," which acts as a vehicle for social innovation. NM currently incubates several active social enterprises in the areas of youth development, arts and culture development, health services and the environment, linking education to employment, promoting the culture of research and development, promoting the values of citizenship and tolerance, and preparing emerging young leaders and development practitioners. The NM incubator addresses a wide community of youth, students, and other beneficiaries throughout the country.

About the Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship

In his "A New Beginning" speech in Cairo last June, President Obama announced that the United States would host a Summit on Entrepreneurship to identify how the government can deepen ties between business leaders, foundations, and social entrepreneurs in the United States and Muslim communities around the world. The Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship, which will be held in Washington D.C., on April 26 - 27, follows through on President Obama's commitment. It represents an opportunity to highlight and support business and social entrepreneurship in Muslim-majority countries including their minority populations, and Muslim communities around the world.

About Yahoo!

Yahoo! attracts hundreds of millions of users every month through its innovative technology and engaging content and services, making it one of the most visited Internet destinations and a world-class online media company. Yahoo!'s vision is to be the center of people's online lives by delivering personally relevant, meaningful Internet experiences. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. For more information, visit pressroom.yahoo.com or the company's blog, Yodel Anecdotal (yodel.yahoo.com).

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YAHOO! REPORTS FIRST QUARTER 2010 RESULTS Tweet

SUNNYVALE, California – Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) reported results for the quarter ended March 31, 2010. Revenues were $1,597 million for the first quarter of 2010, a 1 percent increase from the first quarter of 2009. Income from operations for the first quarter of 2010 was $188 million, compared to $101 million in the first quarter of 2009.

“We had a good quarter, delivering income from operations higher than our outlook,”
said Yahoo! Chief Executive Officer Carol Bartz. “Thanks to our efforts, our search share has stabilized, and we grew display advertising by 20% year over year. More
importantly, guaranteed display grew by 24% as advertisers took advantage of the
science, art and scale that only Yahoo! can offer.”

Click to read the full press release

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