[excerpt]After the aggressive proposal by Microsoft, officially refused from Yahoo yesterday, the big “Y” is making moves to consolidate their presence in many different fields of mobile social communications and video over the internet.
First of all the announcement of oneConnect, made at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week. It’s a new mobile service that aggregates IM, email and social networks all around a socially connected address book. [/excerpt]
Available features include status update from all major social networks, personal feeds, mobile messaging, social contact card and global positioning and so on. The complete press release can be found here.
In addition, Yahoo just made a partnership with T-Mobile to offer their mobile services to T-Mobile users all around the world as well as confirms the huge success of oneSearch, with more than 600M subscribers worldwide.
Last but not least, Yahoo! just announced the acquisition of Maven Networks, an online video platform provider. According to the press release, this move should be aimed to “expand state-of-the-art consumer video and advertising experiences on Yahoo!.com and Yahoo!’s network of leading premium video publishers across the web”.
Anything else?
luca filigheddu, maven networks, oneconnect, onesearch, yahoo
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