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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! News; Yahoo! Finance; Yahoo! Food; Yahoo! Tech and Yahoo! Health
•Entertainment — Yahoo! Sports; Yahoo! Music; Yahoo! Movies and Yahoo! TV; Yahoo! Games and Yahoo! Kids
Information
Yahoo! News aggregates news stories from news providers such as the Associated Press, Reuters, AFP, The
Washington Post, ABC News, CBS News, National Public Radio, and U.S. News and World Report. Through
Yahoo! News, users receive free up-to-the-minute news coverage with video, text, photos and audio from multiple
sources and points of view. In 2006, we made many enhancements to our offerings, including the award winning
Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone, featuring original coverage on armed conflict in the world, and formed a partnership
with CBS Corporation to provide streaming video coverage of the popular news magazine show, 60 Minutes. Local
news coverage was expanded in 2006 through agreements with new partners, including CBS Corporation for local
video content, as well as the December 2006 launch of “You Witness News,” community news video content
provided by users.
Yahoo! Finance provides a comprehensive set of financial resources that range from investment and company
information to personal financial management tools. Free tools are provided to help users manage their personal
finances as well as gather data, news and information for making informed investment decisions. Company
conference call transcripts, analyst research reports and real-time streaming quotes are available through Yahoo!
Finance for a fee. In 2006, Yahoo! Finance launched a free news video initiative that aggregates business news clips
and delivers business-focused video news. Yahoo! Finance also added other new offerings during 2006, such as
streaming quotes, interactive stock charts and enhanced stock message boards to its site.
Yahoo! Food launched in late 2006 as a one-stop online food destination. The site contains free recipes, chef and
restaurant information, food video segments and select blogs dedicated to food topics. Content is provided by
recognized authorities and personalities in the food space and by users through recipe submissions, postings and
reviews.
Yahoo! Tech launched in 2006 and offers users a variety of free information on consumer electronics including
product comparisons, consumer reviews and Hook Me Up, a streaming video product that evaluates consumer
electronics. Yahoo! Tech was developed with the simple philosophy of making technology easy for all Yahoo!
users, especially those without a deep understanding of technology and gadgets.
Yahoo! Health is a comprehensive healthcare destination. Yahoo! Health provides free information on healthy
living, medical conditions clinical trials, diet tools and drugs. The site contains online community tools, complete
with groups focused on popular health topics, as well as blogs provided by recognized experts.
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., Major League
Baseball Players’ Association, Sports Illustrated Interactive, Stats, Inc. and the Associated Press. Yahoo! Sports
also offers fee-based fantasy games, real-time statistical trackers and live sports audio broadcasts. In 2006, Yahoo!
Sports entered into a key partnership with the National Football League (“NFL”) to launch a subscription service to
broadcast live NFL games to international users. In addition, the property broadened its free video content to
fantasy users by launching a weekly Fantasy Football Live show.
Yahoo! Music offers a wide selection of free services, including streaming audio, one of the Internet’s largest
collection of music videos, Internet radio, exclusive artist features and music news. Yahoo! Music also offers fee-
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