Yahoo! Brings the Best of the Mobile Internet to Europe; Announces Availability of Yahoo! Go 3.0 and New Mobile Widgets for European Users

Mar 04, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO) today announced at CeBIT 2008 the upcoming availability of Yahoo! Go 3.0(TM) for a number of European countries, as well as several new European-based widgets that will be accessible across Yahoo!'s mobile browser and client-based offerings.

"Yahoo! Mobile has tremendous momentum in Europe and we are expanding our leadership with innovative offerings and key partnerships," said Marco Boerries, executive vice president, Connected Life, Yahoo!. "We believe delivering Yahoo! Go 3.0 and exciting widgets that markets demand will help make Yahoo! an even more indispensable starting point for users, as well as grow value for advertisers, publishers and developers across our mobile ecosystem."

In a related announcement, Yahoo! today announced the unveiling of plans for Yahoo! onePlace(TM) -- which will be the industry's first mobile content management service (see release titled Yahoo! onePlace(TM) Revolutionizes Mobile Content).

Yahoo! Mobile Widgets Goes Global, Adds New Major Partners

Within the next two months, European users in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK will be able to access localized services from new mobile widget development partners including:

-- Eurosport(R) -- Football -- the number one news source for European football coverage;

-- XING(TM) -- a leading professional networking site;

-- eBay(TM) -- the world's largest online auction marketplace;

-- MySpace(TM) -- the number one social networking site in the world;

-- Dopplr(TM) -- an innovative application for keeping track of where your friends are

Yahoo! Mobile Widgets will be accessible via devices that support the new Yahoo! Go 3.0 client or the recently redesigned Yahoo! mobile home page. During the coming months, the number of compatible devices is expected to expand substantially and begin to roll out internationally.