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Small Business
Yahoo! Small Business provides a comprehensive and integrated suite of fee-based online services including
Yahoo! Domains, Yahoo! Web Hosting, Yahoo! Business Mail and our e-commerce platform called
Yahoo! Merchant Solutions. By integrating one of the leading hosting solutions with business critical
services and information, Yahoo! enables customers to easily get online, sell online, and market and
promote online.
Information and Entertainment
Our Information and Entertainment offerings deliver content that is available without charge to our users,
and also provide some of our content on a fee or subscription basis. Our Information and Entertainment
offerings include the following:
• Information — Yahoo! Front Page (www.yahoo.com); My Yahoo!; Yahoo! News; Yahoo! Finance;
Yahoo! Health; and Yahoo! Education
• Entertainment — Yahoo! Sports; Yahoo! Music; Yahoo! Movies; Yahoo! TV; Yahoo! Games; and
Yahooligans!
Information
Yahoo! Front Page (www.yahoo.com) serves as a free navigation hub and entry point into the Yahoo!
Properties. Among many available features on the page are the ability to perform a Internet search, read
the latest news, link to Yahoo! websites in the Yahoo! Properties, and view promotions from Yahoo!’s
advertisers.
My Yahoo! is our free, personalized Web information service that allows registered members to create a
personal profile, which organizes and delivers information of personal interest to the user via a user-
customized interface. The My Yahoo! platform allows us to deliver targeted advertising and
transaction-based services on behalf of our advertisers and partners.
Yahoo! News aggregates news stories from news providers such as the Associated Press, Reuters, AFP, The
Washington Post, USA TODAY, Chicago Tribune, National Public Radio, and U.S. News and World
Report. Through Yahoo! News, users receive free up-to-the-minute news coverage with text, photos,
audio and video, from multiple sources and points of view. In 2005, we launched two additional exclusive
features: Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone and Richard Bangs Adventures. Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone features
news reporting on armed conflict in the world. Richard Bangs Adventures captures untold stories about
adventurers and explorers around the world.
Yahoo! Finance provides a comprehensive set of financial resources that range from investment and
company information to personal finance management tools. Yahoo! Finance offers free financial tools to
help users manage their personal finances as well as data, news and information for making informed
investment decisions. In 2005, we added additional exclusive content from financial experts focusing on a
variety of personal finance and investing topics. We also launched our direct-to-exchange product, which
allows Yahoo! Finance to receive, and make available to users, stock quotes directly from exchanges
around the world. In addition, Yahoo! Finance offers fee-based services, including a real-time stock
quotes package, company conference call transcripts, and analyst research reports.