Yahoo! announced today that it has signed partnership agreements with six major mobile operators across Asia, representing a combined subscriber base of nearly 100 million. These new partnerships focus on distribution of Yahoo!’s popular mobile search service, Yahoo! oneSearch, which launched in Asia in May of this year.
The six mobile operators are Globe Telecom (Philippines), Idea Cellular (India), LG Telecom (Korea), Maxis Communications Berhad (Malaysia), PT Telekomunikasi Selular “Telkomsel” (Indonesia) and Taiwan Mobile (Taiwan).
Yahoo! oneSearch gives consumers access to news, Web images, financial information, weather conditions, Flickr and Web and mobile Web sites, as well as makes it easy to navigate to other web sites.
Yahoo! oneSearch is now available in 14 countries around the world (Canada, France, Germany, Indonesia, India, Italy, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Spain, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States and Vietnam) and will soon be available in Korea and Taiwan.
Yahoo! Go for Mobile 2.0 is rolling out this week. Yahoo! initially unveiled the popular new service in beta in the US January 2007.
“Today’s launch signals to the world that Yahoo! Go is ready for primetime,” said Marco Boerries, executive vice president, Connected Life Division, Yahoo!.
The new version of Yahoo! Go 2.0 launches on Friday and will be available for more than 200 different mobile phones in the US by the end of July, expanding to more than 400 by end of year. It will also be pre-loaded on new devices from Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, LG and HTC that begin rolling out later this year.
The new version of Yahoo! Go 2.0 includes:
- Increased speed, including substantially reduced loading time.
- Better e-mail with more types of attachments, including PDF files, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel document.
- More powerful maps — View both satellite and hybrid maps, current traffic conditions and optional GPS integration on select devices, including the BlackBerry(R) 8800
- Easier to stay connected — Search Yahoo! Address Book contacts to call or get driving directions with one-click.
- Better mobile search results — Faster access to better results.
Localized versions will launch in 13 countries across Asia, Europe and the Americas
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