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Media and Entertainment
Yahoo! Sports provides up-to-the-minute news, real-time statistics and scoring, broadcast programming, integrated shop-
ping, and an on-line sports community. Yahoo! Sports has content and marketing relationships with professional sports
organizations and media outlets including the National Basketball Association, Player’s Inc., Sports Illustrated Interactive,
USA Today and the Associated Press. Yahoo! Sports also offers free and fee-based fantasy games, real-time statistical
trackers and live sports broadcasts.
Yahoo! Music is a comprehensive online music destination. Yahoo! Music provides music fans with access to a wide
selection of streaming audio, music videos, artist interviews, music news, album reviews and artist biographies. Yahoo!
Music also offers fee-based music services such as premium radio. In 2004, we extended our premium music services
with the acquisition of Musicmatch, Inc. (‘‘Musicmatch’’) a leading provider of personalized digital music technology.
Musicmatch’s offerings include Musicmatch Jukebox, music management software that enables users to manage, discover
and play digital music; Musicmatch Music Store, an a-la-carte song download service; and Musicmatch On Demand, a
streaming music subscription service that provides unlimited access to more than 800,000 songs.
Yahoo! Movies and Yahoo! TV offer entertainment services which include entertainment news, photo galleries, exclusive
content; such as trailers, and extra or never-before-seen footage; and links to entertainment-related content across the
Yahoo! Network. Yahoo! Movies features paid-for film promotions for major movie studios, including Disney, Sony,
Warner Bros., Universal and Fox. Yahoo! TV partners with key television networks, producers and content creators to
give users a deeper, more engaging experience with their favorite programs.
Yahoo! Games offers free, classic board, card, arcade and word games along with downloadable games, game strategy
guides, shopping guides, gaming news and reviews on computer and console videogames. Yahoo! Games also offers a
variety of fee-based premium game downloads and subscriptions.
Yahooligans! is a free entertainment and educational Web guide designed for children ages seven to twelve. Yahooligans!
offerings include games, instant messaging, reference materials and movie information.
Communications and Consumer Services
Our Communications and Consumer Services offerings provide a wide range of communication and content services to
users and small businesses. The offerings are distributed both on the Yahoo! Network and through our access alliances,
including those with SBC Communications Inc. (‘‘SBC’’), BT Group plc (‘‘BT’’), Rogers Cable Inc. (‘‘Rogers’’) and
Verizon Communications Inc. (‘‘Verizon’’). These offerings incorporate a suite of integrated Yahoo! tools and services,
including security features, communications tools, compelling content, and a customized Internet browser – all in an
individualized environment. We offer some services free of charge to our users, and also provide some of our services on
a fee or subscription basis. Our offerings include the following:
•Premium Internet Packages – SBC Yahoo! DSL; BT Yahoo! Broadband; and Rogers Yahoo! HiSpeed
•Communications – Yahoo! Mail; Yahoo! Messenger; Yahoo! Photos; and Yahoo! Communities
•Personals – Yahoo! Personals; and Yahoo! Personals Premier
•Mobile – Yahoo! Mobile Internet; Yahoo! Search for Mobile; and Yahoo! Messenger for Mobile.
Premium Internet Packages
Yahoo! has several strategic alliances with various providers of broadband DSL service in the United States and Interna-
tionally. We have a strategic alliance with SBC to offer a co-branded Internet service to DSL (broadband) customers in
SBC’s 13-state region and to dial-up subscribers nationwide. This service offers users integrated access and premium
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