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Yahoo! Sports provides a fast, live, and interactive online experience for sports fans across all major sports and all
levels, from professional to high school and college. Yahoo! Sports offers original free and fee-based 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 Football League, National Basketball Association, Major
League Baseball, National Hockey League, Players Inc., Major League Baseball Players’ Association, Stats, Inc.,
and the Associated Press. Yahoo! Sports also produces its own original content, including sports stories from its
team of exclusive writers and editors and video programming, which includes its SportStream and Fantasy Football
Live shows, both of which are offered free to the viewer.
Rivals.com is a leading online provider of college and high school sports and recruiting information, primarily
focused on football and basketball, that we acquired in 2007. Rivals.com maintains a network of more than 150
individual Websites.
Entertainment
Yahoo! Music offers a wide selection of free services, including music videos, streaming audio, Internet radio,
exclusive artist features, and music news. Yahoo! Music also offers fee-based music services including premium
Internet radio and music subscription services. Nissan Live Sets offers exclusive artist features, incorporating
original artist performances with social networking elements, allowing users to submit photos, blog, and interact
with the artists. In 2007, Yahoo! Music launched a free lyrics site on the Web allowing users to view selected lyrics,
as well as new features such as local upcoming concert listings, increased personalization with audio and video
playlists, exclusive content, and blogs from industry leaders.
Yahoo! Movies and Yahoo! TV offers free entertainment services which include exclusive video content such as
trailers, clips and never-before-seen extras, entertainment news, photo galleries, and reviews. Yahoo! Movies
features paid-for film promotions for major movie studios, including Disney, Fox, Sony, Universal, and Warner
Brothers. Yahoo! Movies also provides coverage of the Oscars and other Red Carpet events. Yahoo! TV partners
with key television networks, producers, and content creators to provide users a deeper, more engaging experience
with their favorite programs, including guides to Fall TV, the Emmy Awards, and other high-profile television
events.
Yahoo! Games offers free classic board, card, arcade, and word games along with downloadable games, Web games,
game strategy guides, shopping guides, gaming news, tournaments, and leagues. The site also reviews the latest and
most popular computer and console videogames, and features video content such as newly-released videogame
trailers and exclusive video game walkthroughs. Our integration of games with Yahoo! Messenger allows users to
see what games their friends are playing and join the game through Yahoo! Messenger. Yahoo! Games also offers a
variety of fee-based premium game downloads and services.
Yahoo! Video is an online video destination that enables users to find, view, and share a broad array of professional
and user-generated videos. The site also enables individual users and partners to upload video content directly to
Yahoo! Video, where it can then be accessed by other users. The site is free and users can upload an unlimited
amount of video content.
omg! is Yahoo!’s celebrity news site launched in June 2007. The site contains celebrity news and gossip, photo
galleries and features, as well as interactive user polls. Content is provided by major news sources including
Associated Press and Reuters as well as entertainment partners, X17, and Access Hollywood.
Lifestyles
Yahoo! Autos enables users to research, price, and compare cars online. Information and services available free of
charge to our users include vehicle pricing, specification and option information, used car listings, expert reviews,
user reviews and ratings, car comparisons, financing calculators, and new car quotes from dealers. We earn fees on
a per lead basis for transactions completed between our users and automotive manufacturers and dealers. In 2007,
we re-launched our used car listings section with a new partner, Cars.com.
Yahoo! Real Estate provides information and services for users who are looking to buy, sell, or rent a home. Users
are able to search across multiple property types such as existing homes, new homes, apartment rentals, foreclo-
sures, and classifieds. Yahoo! Real Estate offers decision-support tools such as interactive maps, home valuation
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