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We have distribution partnerships with more than 80 carriers and original equipment manufacturers (“OEMs”)
around the world which distribute our offerings via mobile devices, tablets, and TVs.
Communications and Communities
Our Communications and Communities offerings, including Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo! Groups,
Yahoo! Answers, Flickr, and Connected TV, provide a wide range of communication and social services to users
and small businesses across a variety of devices and through our broadband Internet access partners and enable
users to organize into groups and share knowledge, common interests, and photos. We offer some services free of
charge to our users and also provide some services on a fee or subscription basis. We generate display and search
advertising revenue and fees revenue from these offerings.
Yahoo! Mail provides users with full-featured online communications functionality. In addition to our free e-mail
service, for a subscription fee, we offer Yahoo! Mail Plus, a premium e-mail service that provides features such
as an interface free of display ads.
Yahoo! Messenger instant messaging service provides an interactive and personalized way for people to connect
and share experiences on a real-time basis. Yahoo! currently offers mobile applications for Yahoo! Messenger.
Yahoo! Groups provides members with shared access to information such as message archives, photo albums,
event calendars, and polls.
Yahoo! Answers is a service where anyone can ask and answer questions on topics on both PCs and mobile
devices.
Flickr is an online photo management and sharing service that makes it easy for users to upload, store, organize,
and share their photos. In addition to the basic service, Flickr offers a fee-based service with unlimited storage,
uploads, and an advertising-free browsing and sharing interface. Yahoo! also currently offers mobile applications
for Flickr.
Connected TV seamlessly integrates the Internet into the television experience through an open platform. We
have distribution relationships with the top six global television manufacturers.
We also have social properties tailored to users in specific international markets, which include blogging and
social networking Websites such as Wretch in Taiwan and Meme in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Taiwan,
Indonesia, and the Philippines.
Search and Marketplaces
Our Search and Marketplaces offerings are designed to provide quick answers to users’ information needs by
delivering to our users innovative and meaningful search, local, and listings experiences on the search results
page and across Yahoo!.
Search
Our Search offerings, including Yahoo! Search and Yahoo! Local, are available free to users and are often the
starting point for our users to navigate the Internet and discover content that matters to them. We generate
revenue through search offerings on Yahoo! Properties and Affiliate sites.
Yahoo! Search provides users with a free search capability with rich search results ranked and organized based
on relevance to the users’ search query. Sponsored search results are a subset of the overall search results and
provide links to paying advertisers’ Web pages. We are making innovations to Yahoo! Search to deliver more
answers to the millions of people who come to Yahoo! to be entertained and to stay informed and productive.
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