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Zimbra Mail is a messaging and collaboration application for enterprise, service provider, education, and
government environments. The powerful Web application integrates e-mail, contacts, shared calendar, and online
documents into a single interface. In addition, the service offers seamless compatibility with other clients like
Microsoft Outlook, Apple desktop suite, and Mozilla Thunderbird, and a mobility solution that works across a range
of devices from the Blackberry to the iPhone. Zimbra Mail generates revenues by selling technology license fees
for the application.
Yahoo! Messenger instant messaging service provides a free, interactive, and personalized way for people to
connect and share experiences with their friends, family, and colleagues on a real-time basis. Yahoo! Messenger’s
communications suite integrates leading Yahoo! services including Games, Music, Flickr, and Search. Yahoo!
Messenger allows users to stay connected to each other through text IM, e-mail, voice, video, or mobile messaging.
Yahoo! Messenger generates revenues primarily from display advertising.
Communities
Yahoo! Groups is a free service that enables people with shared interests to meet and stay connected and informed.
The service provides members with shared access to information such as message archives, photo albums, event
calendars, and polls. Yahoo! Groups generates revenues primarily from display advertising.
Yahoo! 360
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is a free service providing users with an integrated experience, seamlessly bringing together popular
communications, content, and community services such as Yahoo! Messenger, Flickr, Yahoo! Music, and Yahoo!
Groups with sharing tools for recommending favorite movies, restaurants, music, and more. Yahoo! 360
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generates
revenues primarily from display advertising.
Flickr is an online photo management and sharing application that makes it easy for people to upload, store,
organize, and share their photos with the people that matter most to them. In addition to the basic service, Flickr
offers a premium service with unlimited storage, uploads, and an ad-free browsing and sharing interface. Flickr
generates revenues primarily from premium account fees and display advertising.
Media
Our Media offerings deliver content that is available without charge to our users, and also provide content on a fee or
subscription basis.
Our Media offerings include the following:
•Information — Yahoo! News; Yahoo! Finance; Yahoo! Sports; and Rivals.com
•Entertainment — Yahoo! Music; Yahoo! Movies and Yahoo! TV; Yahoo! Games; Yahoo! Video; and omg!
•Lifestyles — Yahoo! Autos; Yahoo! Real Estate; Yahoo! Food; Yahoo! Tech; Yahoo! Kids; and Yahoo! Health
Information
Yahoo! News aggregates news stories from news providers such as the Associated Press, Reuters, Agence France-
Presse (AFP), ABC News, CBS, CNN, and Fox News. 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. Yahoo! News provides
aggregated content for over 20 topical sections, including World News, US News, Elections, Health, Travel, and
Business. In 2007, we launched People of the Web featuring original news coverage on the Internet about
interesting people. Local news coverage was further expanded in 2007 bringing local news headlines from Yahoo!’s
Newspaper Consortium partners to Yahoo!’s local news section. In 2007, Yahoo! acquired BuzzTracker, a news site
that automatically generates news pages for a multitude of topics, both broad and narrow. The acquisition increases
Yahoo!’s technological capabilities used to track a wide number of individual news topics.
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. Financial news and video coverage were further expanded in 2007 through relationships with a
number of providers, including Fox Business News, CNBC, and Portfolio.
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