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Yahoo! Health is a comprehensive starting point for users to find healthcare information. Yahoo! Health
provides free information on healthy living, medical conditions and medications, as well as listings for
various health information centers, clinical trial information and online community tools. In 2005, we
introduced blogs provided by leading experts that share advice, tips, and personal experiences on topics
from allergies to yoga.
Entertainment
Yahoo! Sports provides a fast, live and interactive online experience for sports fans including original
fantasy games, up-to-the-minute news, real-time statistics and scoring, broadcast programming, integrated
shopping, and an online 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 fee-based fantasy games, real-time statistical trackers and live sports audio broadcasts.
Yahoo! Music offers users access to a wide selection of streaming audio, the Internet’s largest collection of
music videos, Internet radio, exclusive artist features and music news and related content covering all
genres of music. Yahoo! Music also offers fee-based music services including premium radio and
Musicmatch’s subscription and download offerings. In 2005, we extended our premium music services with
the introduction of Yahoo! Music Unlimited. With a library of more than one and a half million songs, the
Yahoo! Music Unlimited subscription service is available to users for a low monthly or annual subscription
fee. With Yahoo! Music Unlimited users can build personalized music libraries, transfer tracks to portable
devices, purchase permanent downloads, access commercial-free Internet radio stations, and uniquely
share and discover music with friends through Yahoo! Messenger. Subscribers benefit from personalized
music recommendations based on their ratings and music taste, discounted permanent downloads, and the
ability to create playlists from the song library.
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! Properties. 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. Additionally Yahoo! TV partners with Mark Burnett
Productions to produce and host “The Apprentice” website on Yahoo! TV.
Yahoo! Games offers free classic board, card, arcade and word games along with downloadable games,
game strategy guides, shopping guides, gaming news, tournaments, leagues and reviews on computer and
console videogames. Our integration of games with Yahoo! Messenger allows users to see what games
their friends are playing and join in the game through Yahoo! Messenger. Yahoo! Games also offers a
variety of fee-based premium game downloads and subscriptions.
Yahooligans! is a free entertainment and educational Internet guide designed for children ages seven to
twelve. Yahooligans! offerings include games, reference materials and movie information.
Communications and Connected Life
Our Communications and Connected Life offerings provide a wide range of communication and content
services to users and small businesses including those that extend a wide range of Yahoo! services beyond
the browser and across a variety of devices and through our access alliances. 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:
• Communications — Yahoo! Mail; Yahoo! Messenger with Voice; Yahoo! Photos; and Yahoo!
Communities
• Connected Life — Broadband; Yahoo! Mobile; and Yahoo! Go