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and syndicated news via relationships with several third-party providers. Yahoo! Finance offers mobile solutions,
including our dedicated Yahoo! Finance iPhone and Android applications and MarketDash for iPad.
Yahoo! Entertainment and Lifestyles is a collection of properties focused on emerging trends and information in
popular culture, women’s issues, and media. Yahoo! omg!, Movies, TV and Music are leading destinations for
celebrity gossip, movie, music, and TV premieres, and awards coverage. Yahoo Shine! is targeted to women and
provides tips, features and in-depth analysis in areas such as health, fashion, careers and parenting.
Yahoo! Video provides original, premium and third-party news, finance, sports, entertainment, and lifestyle
video content distributed in contextually relevant experiences across the Yahoo! network. Yahoo! Video includes
Yahoo! Screen, a video destination site where videos from across the Yahoo! network are aggregated and
watched.
Yahoo! Toolbar is a Web browser add-on that conveniently enables users to access and preview Yahoo!
Properties and third-party content via applications from anywhere on the Web.
Communications
In addition to bringing together personalized content and information consumed by hundreds of millions of users,
we also provide communications tools to connect the world. These include:
Yahoo! Mail provides users with e-mail, instant messaging, and mobile text messaging as well as integrated
Contacts and Calendar 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
advertising. Yahoo! Mail is available on PCs, mobile phones and tablets.
Yahoo! Messenger is an instant messaging service that provides an interactive and personalized way for users to
connect, communicate and share experiences on a real-time basis. Yahoo! also offers mobile applications for
Yahoo! Messenger, including real-time video chat on mobile devices.
User-Generated Content
Our User-Generated Content products allow our users to create, share, and discover ideas, interests, and
photography with the world.
Yahoo! Groups allows users to join groups based on shared interests and to access information such as message
archives, photo albums, event calendars, and polls.
Yahoo! Answers is a service that enables users to discover and share opinions, experiences and knowledge
around shared interests 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 that includes unlimited
storage and an advertising-free browsing and sharing interface. Yahoo! offers mobile applications for Flickr on
both iPhone and Android devices.
Mobile & Emerging Products
With the rapid platform shift to mobile devices including phones and tablets, Yahoo! is focused on product
excellence on both PCs and mobile devices. Many of our products are available across the mobile Web and as
native mobile applications for iPhone, Android, and Windows 8. These offerings enable users to engage in their
daily habits across devices, wherever they are and whenever they want. The monetization of these mobile
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