HOLLYWOOD – Britney Spears’

HOLLYWOOD – Britney Spears’ longtime companion, Sam Lutfi, has revealed the singer has sought treatment for a series of mental issues.

Lutfi called revered newswoman Barbara Walters over the weekend in an attempt to clear up reports about the singer’s health.

And when Walters asked him if she could talk about their conversation during her morning show The View on Monday, Lutfi agreed.

She told viewers about their chat, stating Lutfi referred to himself as Spears’ manager.

She revealed, “I can’t vouch for this; he seemed to be very knowledgeable and he certainly was very nice.

SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT and Yahoo! Expand Video-on-Demand Pact

SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT and Yahoo! Expand Video-on-Demand Pact

SANTA MONICA, Calif., Nov 20, 2007 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Yahoo! announced today that it has signed an agreement with Sony BMG to extend its video-on-demand license. In addition to expanding the existing relationship into additional territories around the world, the new worldwide deal adds a broad array of additional Sony BMG music videos to the Yahoo! Music catalog. As part of the agreement, Sony BMG music videos will be available for distribution across Yahoo! and off-network through a Yahoo-branded video player. The deal also enables Yahoo! users to utilize various Sony BMG audio recordings in user generated audiovisual content.

“Yahoo is a leading force in Internet entertainment, and they are an important part of our overall strategy to make our artists’ music videos widely available, while at the same time building a strong future for our online businesses,” commented Thomas Hesse, President, Global Digital Business & U.S. Sales, SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT. “We are happy to extend our agreement with Yahoo, and look forward to continuing our relationship.”

“Yahoo! is committed to providing our users with the most comprehensive array of entertainment content,” says Ian Rogers, general manager of Yahoo! Music. “This partnership not only enhances our video offerings, but also offers Sony BMG artists broad exposure among our global audience of music and entertainment fans.”

About SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT

SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT is a global recorded music joint venture with a roster of current artists that includes a broad array of both local artists and international superstars, as well as a vast catalog that comprises some of the most important recordings in history. SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT is 50% owned by Bertelsmann A.G. and 50% owned by Sony Corporation of America.

About Yahoo! Entertainment

Yahoo! Entertainment is the place on the internet where everyone can be a critic, creator, or fan, offering the sites and services to fill every entertainment need. To join the most comprehensive and engaging entertainment community online, visit Yahoo! Entertainment (http://entertainment.yahoo.com).

About Yahoo! Inc.

Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide. Yahoo! is focused on powering its communities of users, advertisers, publishers, and developers by creating indispensable experiences built on trust. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. For more information, visit pressroom.yahoo.com ( http://pressroom.yahoo.com/) or the company’s blog, Yodel Anecdotal (http://yodel.yahoo.com/).

SOURCE: Yahoo! Inc.

Yahoo! Entertainment
Carrie Davis, 310-907-3774
carried@yahoo-inc.com
or
Sony BMG
John McKay
john.mckay@sonybmg.com

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Cars.com Delivers Comprehensive Selection of New and Used Car Listings on Yahoo! Autos

Cars.com Delivers Comprehensive Selection of New and Used Car Listings on Yahoo! Autos
Consumers Can Now Access More Than 2 Million Vehicle Listings on Yahoo! Autos Expanding Cars.com’s Reach

CHICAGO & SUNNYVALE, Calif., Dec 11, 2007 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Yahoo! (Nasdaq:YHOO) and Cars.com today announced the launch of a strategic partnership to deliver comprehensive new and used vehicle listings on Yahoo! Autos. With this launch, Yahoo! Autos users now have easy access to the best selection of more than 2.4 million new, used, certified pre-owned, and private-seller vehicle listings from Cars.com dealers and private-party sellers nationwide. The launch marks the first time new car listings will be available on Yahoo! Autos to help vehicle shoppers go the extra mile in their search.

The enhanced vehicle listings on Yahoo! Autos will deliver increased relevance and expanded search results to the 83 percent of consumers who use the Internet to research vehicles before visiting a dealership(1).

“We’re focused on providing optimal depth, breadth and relevance of vehicle listings to our valued consumers on Yahoo! Autos. It’s important that we deliver an effortless experience to help people find the right car based on their particular location and specific vehicle needs,” said Michael Yang, vice president and general manager, Yahoo! Autos. “By teaming up with Cars.com, we are marrying our best-in-class user search experience with their strong dealer and auto manufacturer relationships and access to new and used car listings.”

Dealers advertising on Cars.com will benefit from exposure on Yahoo! Autos, resulting in an effective way to reach in-market shoppers with the right message at the right time. With 87 percent of its audience unduplicated from Cars.com, Yahoo! Autos delivers an entirely new, in-market audience of used and new vehicle shoppers with one ad buy on Cars.com(2). This alliance also allows Yahoo! Autos to leverage Cars.com’s comprehensive editorial content in addition to enabling Cars.com’s vehicle listings to generate relevant display ads through Yahoo!’s Smart Ads.

“As we look to provide our advertisers with the broadest reach and access to the most qualified buyers, Yahoo! Autos is the clear partner of choice as the fastest growing site for in-market vehicle shoppers,” said Mitch Golub, president of Cars.com. “In addition to an unduplicated audience, Yahoo! Autos complements Cars.com in its commitment to deliver serious shoppers to our vast network of dealers. In fact, nearly 73 percent of Yahoo! Autos shoppers intend to purchase, a number in keeping with the 75 percent of Cars.com shoppers who intend to buy(3).”

(1) 2007 Dealer eBusiness Performance Study, Yahoo!/Cobalt Group/R.L. Polk & Co.

(2) comScore Media Metrix, August 2007

(3) Nielsen/Netratings @Plan study, Winter 2007

About Cars.com

Partnered with more than 200 leading metro newspapers, television stations and their websites, Cars.com (www.cars.com) is the most comprehensive destination for those looking to buy or sell a new or used car. The site lists more than 2.4 million vehicles from 15,000 dealer customers, classified advertisers and private parties to offer consumers the best selection of new and used cars online, as well as the content, tools and advice to support their shopping experience. Cars.com combines powerful inventory search tools and new-car configuration with pricing information, photo galleries, buying guides, side-by-side comparison tools, original editorial content and reviews to help millions of car shoppers connect with sellers each month.

Launched in June 1998, Cars.com is a division of Classified Ventures, LLC, which is owned by leading media companies, including Belo (NYSE:BLC), Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE:GCI), The McClatchy Company (NYSE:MNI), Tribune Company (NYSE:TRB) and The Washington Post Company (NYSE:WPO).

About Yahoo! Autos

Yahoo! Autos (http://autos.yahoo.com) is a top destination for online automotive shoppers and has experienced 40 percent traffic growth during January – September 2007, versus 2006 (comScore Media Metrix). Yahoo! Autos delivers resources for researching, buying, maintaining and communicating with others about vehicle decisions and purchases. It’s also home to product innovations that include Car Finder, a new vehicle make-model-trim search experience, and the Green Center, a leading online source for the latest news and information on alternative fuel vehicles.

SOURCE: Yahoo!

Yahoo!
Jennie Dobies, 408-349-8452 (direct)
jdobies@yahoo-inc.com
or
Cars.com
Brian R. Hannan, 312-601-5519 (direct) or
312-218-0788 (mobile)
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CNBC and Yahoo! Enter Global Distribution Agreement

CNBC and Yahoo! Enter Global Distribution Agreement
CNBC to Provide Global Video Content and Articles to Yahoo! Finance Users Worldwide

ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J. & SUNNYVALE, Calif., Dec 12, 2007 (BUSINESS WIRE) — CNBC, first in business worldwide, and Yahoo! Finance, the Internet’s #1 financial website, today announced an agreement to distribute content from CNBC, CNBC Europe, CNBC Asia, and CNBC.com to Yahoo! Finance users in the United States and worldwide. The announcement represents CNBC’s first global online alliance, and Yahoo!’s first global finance video agreement.

Under the terms of the agreement, CNBC will provide video clips from its global networks and articles from CNBC.com. The content will be available to Yahoo! Finance users in the U.S. (http://finance.yahoo.com), and will also be available to Yahoo!’s 21 international financial news sites. The video clips will encompass commentary and analysis of the day’s top business stories, pre-market opening buzz, interviews, investing and stock-picking segments from CNBC programs including “Mad Money w/Jim Cramer” and “Fast Money” and international market news and analysis from CNBC Europe and CNBC Asia.

“This agreement brings together two global market leaders to meet the growing demand for online business and financial information,” said Mark Hoffman, CNBC President. “This alliance draws on the strength of CNBC’s global assets and expands the reach of our unparalleled content to Yahoo! Finance’s worldwide user base. It reaffirms our commitment to providing fast, accurate, actionable and unbiased information to our audience.”

“In an increasingly globalized economy, it’s essential that Yahoo! Finance offer investors news from the major global financial markets,” said Scott Moore, senior vice president and head of media, Yahoo!. “The addition of CNBC video content will help Yahoo! Finance users from around the world make more informed financial decisions.”

About CNBC:

CNBC is the recognized world leader in business news, providing real-time financial market coverage and business information to approximately 400 million homes worldwide, including more than 95 million households in the United States and Canada. The network’s Business Day programming (weekdays from 5:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m. ET) is produced at CNBC’s headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., and also includes reports from CNBC news bureaus worldwide. Additionally, CNBC viewers can manage their individual investment portfolios and gain additional in-depth information from on-air reports by accessing http://www.cnbc.com.

Members of the media can receive more information about CNBC and its programming on the NBC Universal Media Village Web site at http://nbcumv.com/cnbc/.

About Yahoo!

Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide. Yahoo! is focused on powering its communities of users, advertisers, publishers, and developers by creating indispensable experiences built on trust. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

Yahoo! and the Yahoo! logo are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Yahoo! Inc.

All other names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

SOURCE: Yahoo!

Yahoo!
Stephanie Arnoldy, 310-907-3119
sarnoldy@yahoo-inc.com
or
CNBC
Brian Steel, 201-735-4778
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Photo Editing is Now a Picnik for Flickr Members Worldwide

Photo Editing is Now a Picnik for Flickr Members Worldwide
Flickr and Picnik.com Join Forces to Provide Integrated Photo Editing Capabilities Within Flickr

SAN FRANCISCO & SEATTLE, Dec 04, 2007 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Flickr (www.flickr.com), one of the world’s leading online photo-sharing communities, today announced a partnership with Picnik.com (www.picnik.com), a ground breaking online photo-editing application, to fully-integrate Picnik’s comprehensive photo-editing tools within Flickr.

Flickr members worldwide will now have access to Picnik’s extensive editing features such as resize, crop, change exposure, and red-eye removal, along with Picnik’s special effects such as color boost, black and white, sepia, frames, shapes, text and soften, all within the Flickr site.

“Flickr continues to build on its vision to be the ‘eyes of the world’, and by bringing Picnik’s rich editing tools to Flickr’s global community we are enhancing the sharing and discovery of what people see and experience through photos,” said Kakul Srivastava, senior director of product management at Flickr. “Providing the ability to edit directly within Flickr is an important step in offering our 20 million members around the globe a complete photo experience.”

“This integration is a key milestone in achieving the Picnik team’s vision of providing fun, weightless photo editing superpowers wherever you are,” said Picnik CEO Jonathan Sposato. “Now, Flickr members can experience Picnik’s photo-editing awesomeness firsthand without ever having to leave Flickr. We already love seeing what our users can do, and we know that combining powerful, intuitive photo editing with Flickr’s photo sharing community will encourage even greater creativity and expression!”

Many Flickr members are already taking advantage of the editing features at Picnik.com, but with this seamless integration it will be much easier for members to quickly access their favorite Picnik tools right within Flickr.

Picnik editing tools are now available on the Edit Photo tab within Flickr for editing individual photos or a batch of photos. After transforming their photos, members can add the edited photos to their Flickr account or, if they are a Flickr Pro member, overwrite the original. Additionally, Flickr Pro members will benefit from Picnik’s “Perfect Memory” feature which allows you to undo or redo any edit or special effect all the way back to the original version of the picture.

The new Picnik editing tools will be available to Flickr members in eight languages including: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Korean and traditional Chinese.

About Flickr

Flickr is one of the world’s leading online photo sharing communities where people explore, find, manage and share pictures of life’s daily moments with friends, family and the world. With more than 40 million worldwide visitors each month and more than 2 billion photos stored, Flickr serves as the ‘eyes of the world’ and has revolutionized the sharing and discovery of what people see and experience through photos. Flickr was developed by Ludicorp in February 2004 and acquired by Yahoo! in March 2005. To share and explore the world’s photos, visit http://www.flickr.com.

About Picnik

Picnik is a next-generation, Web-based photo application that will change the way you think about photo-editing software. With Picnik, users get fast, easy access to a powerful set of photo editing tools that enables them to enhance, edit and print photos in any Internet browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Mozilla, etc.) and with any computer platform (PC, Mac or Linux).

The company recently launched Picnik Premium, a new subscription-based service that gives users access to higher-end photo editing tools, plus an ongoing stream of new features and improvements, for $24.95 a year.

Picnik was founded in the fall of 2005 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. The Picnik team is dedicated to making great, affordable software for real people. For more information please visit http://www.picnik.com or press.picnik.com.

SOURCE: Yahoo!

Yahoo!
Terrell Karlsten, 408-349-5528 (for Flickr)
terrellk@yahoo-inc.com
or
OutCast Communications
Lucy Chung, 415-392-8282 (for Flickr)
lucy@outcastpr.com
or
MWW Group
Erica Chandler, 206-505-8351 (for Picnik)
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Yahoo! Researchers Awarded Top Honors in Computer Science and Information Technology from ACM and IEEE

Yahoo! Researchers Awarded Top Honors in Computer Science and Information Technology from ACM and IEEE

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Dec 19, 2007 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today announced that three world-renowned scientists from Yahoo! Research have been recognized for their achievements in fields key to developing the next-generation of Internet experiences, including computer science, artificial intelligence, data mining, and algorithm engineering. Dr. Andrei Broder was named Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and Dr. Ron Brachman and Dr. Raghu Ramakrishnan were named Fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). These prestigious honors recognize individuals who have made significant contributions to both the practical and theoretical aspects of computing and information technology.

Broder is a fellow and vice president for computational advertising and search technology at Yahoo! Research where he conducts new research on the intersection of information retrieval, machine learning, optimization, and microeconomics and leads the computational advertising group. He was selected for the honor of ACM Fellow for contributions to algorithms and web technology.

Brachman is the vice president of worldwide research operations for Yahoo! Research and is responsible for all operational activities for the organization; his responsibilities also include overseeing academic relations for all of Yahoo!. Brachman was selected as an IEEE Fellow for his leadership in knowledge representation and reasoning in computer science and artificial intelligence.

Ramakrishnan is chief scientist for Yahoo!’s audience group and a Yahoo! Research Fellow, heading up the community systems group. Ramakrishnan was selected as an IEEE Fellow for his contributions to the fields of deductive databases, data mining and query optimization.

“We are honored to have so many of our talented researchers recognized by top scientific organizations and the academic community at large for their technical and scientific contributions to both academic and product and systems accomplishments,” said Dr. Usama Fayyad, EVP and chief data officer for Yahoo! “At Yahoo!, critical research into the sciences that underpin the Internet are helping us to create increasingly indispensable experiences for our users and to advance the positive impact of the Internet around the world.”

As a testimony to the depth of talent and expertise on Yahoo!’s fast-growing research team – which is one of the largest in the world focused on the new sciences of the Internet – Broder joins four other ACM Fellows at Yahoo!: Brachman; Fayyad; Dr. Prabhakar Raghavan, head of Yahoo! Research; and Ramakrishnan. Previous honorees from Yahoo! as IEEE Fellows include Broder and Raghavan.

Yahoo! Research’s mission is to develop the world-class science that will deliver the next generation of businesses to the company. Yahoo!’s scientists focus on data-driven analysis, high-quality search, algorithms and economic models. Yahoo! Research is committed to an open culture of collaboration with peers from academic and research institutions, with a focus on simultaneously publishing scientific work of the highest standard and driving a research agenda with significant impact for the company.

ACM is an educational and scientific society uniting the world’s computing educators, researchers and professionals to inspire dialogue, share resources and address the field’s challenges. The ACM Fellows program was established to recognize outstanding ACM members for technical, professional and leadership contributions.

IEEE is the world’s largest technical professional society. The organization fosters technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity. Through its more than 370,000 members in 160 countries, IEEE is a leading authority on a wide variety of areas ranging from aerospace systems, computers and telecommunications to biomedical engineering, electric power and consumer electronics. IEEE Fellow is the highest grade of membership and is recognized by the technical community as a prestigious honor and an important career achievement.

About Yahoo! Inc.

Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide. Yahoo! is focused on powering its communities of users, advertisers, publishers, and developers by creating indispensable experiences built on trust. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. For more information, visit pressroom.yahoo.com (http://pressroom.yahoo.com/) or the company’s blog, Yodel Anecdotal (http://yodel.yahoo.com/).

SOURCE: Yahoo! Inc.

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Yahoo! Mobile Developer Platform to Enable Developers and Publishers to Build Applications with Instant Reach Across Hundreds of Devices

Yahoo! Mobile Developer Platform to Enable Developers and Publishers to Build Applications with Instant Reach Across Hundreds of Devices
Launch Partners Include eBay, MySpace and MTV; Open Platform Expected to Accelerate Adoption of Mobile Services By Creating Explosion of New Choices for Consumers

LAS VEGAS, Jan 07, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Today, at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2008, Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO) announced the early preview of its Mobile Developer Platform, a one-stop solution for developers to create mobile-optimized applications that are easy to build, quick to deploy, and run across a wide selection of devices, thus making it much easier for Internet content and services to “go mobile.” By providing developers with tools to write code once and efficiently publish their content instantly across hundreds of devices – accessible by hundreds of millions of users – Yahoo!’s Mobile Developer Platform is expected to usher in a dramatic acceleration in the adoption of mobile services by creating an explosion of new choices for the consumer.

These powerful and graphically rich mobile applications – called Yahoo! Mobile Widgets – enable consumers to design their own ideal Internet experiences, by letting users choose which of their favorite Internet content and services to put on their phone – whether from Yahoo! or any other provider. Consumers will choose Mobile Widgets from a growing selection available via the Yahoo! Widget Gallery – accessible from Yahoo!’s new mobile home page, Yahoo! Go 3.0, and Yahoo! oneSearch, consumers can add and delete mobile widgets anytime to make sure their phone reflects their own unique needs & personality.

This week, consumers will be able to access the first third-party widgets built on this new platform, from launch partners including eBay, MySpace and MTV. Yahoo! ultimately expects thousands of new mobile widgets to be added as developers begin writing to this new platform.

“Yahoo! is leading and enabling the mobile ecosystem by partnering with some of the most recognized consumer brands, including eBay, MySpace and MTV further extending their mobile presence and providing mobile consumers with the content they desire,” said Marco Boerries, executive vice president, Connected Life, Yahoo!. “By providing all developers access to our Mobile Widget Platform and giving them the necessary tools to create, we are setting the stage for dramatic growth in the number of third party widgets and creating an innovative new experience that we believe will ultimately drive further adoption of mobile services.”

Yahoo! Mobile Widgets run on devices that support the new Yahoo! Go 3.0 client or the new Yahoo! mobile home page (visit http://mobile.yahoo.com/newsroom for announcements). Over the coming months, the number of compatible devices is expected to expand substantially and begin to roll out internationally.

Leading mobile device manufacturers including LG Electronics and Motorola are collaborating to make Yahoo! Mobile Widgets widely available on multiple devices. ACCESS, a global provider of advanced mobile software technologies, is also in early discussions to support Yahoo!’s Mobile Widget platform. The combined efforts of Yahoo! and these partners is expected to continue to drive the mobile industry forward by making compelling content from the greater Internet more accessible to consumers worldwide.

More details on the Yahoo! Mobile Widget Platform, including first-generation specifications for creating Yahoo! Mobile Widgets can be found at http://mobile.yahoo.com/developers. Over the coming weeks, Yahoo! plans to introduce a full-featured software development kit for developers, offering guidelines and tools for creating, testing and submitting widgets.

INAUGURAL MOBILE WIDGETS

Key features of the first third-party widgets being introduced this week:

eBay

— Mobile bidding

— Search all items listed on eBay

— View a list of “Items I’m Bidding On” and key data about those listings

— View list of “My Watched Items”

— Browse top categories

MySpace

— Check status and mood updates for friends; change status and mood for user

— Check MySpace mail

— Receive and accept friend requests

— View and comment on friends’ photos and view user’s photos

MTV News

— View breaking MTV News on current events and music

— Find out about new albums, shows and artists

— Get the latest celebrity gossip

For additional information on today’s announcement, at CES 2008, including accompanying screenshots, please visit Yahoo!’s Mobile Press Room at http://mobile.yahoo.com/newsroom.

PARTNER QUOTE LIST:

“As a global eCommerce marketplace with more than 248 million registered users worldwide, eBay’s buyers and sellers depend on real-time information that enhances their bidding and merchandising activity,” said Mike Linton, Chief Marketing Officer for eBay. “By working with Yahoo! Mobile, eBay users benefit from complementary mobile applications that help our buyers and sellers to experience eBay Anywhere.”

“Never before have mobile consumers been able to access the content of their favorite Internet sites and communities in such a simple manner, opening their eyes to the potential of the mobile Internet,” said Aber Whitcomb, Chief Technology Officer for MySpace. “MySpace’s social networking expertise combined with Yahoo!’s Mobile Widget Platform provides consumers with a new mobile experience and allows them to stay connected to their friends and family while on the go.”

“As one of the premier providers of entertainment content on mobile, MTV Networks is constantly exploring new and dynamic ways to give our audiences greater access to and interaction with our programming on the handset,” said Greg Clayman, Executive Vice President, Digital Distribution and Business Development, MTV Networks. “Yahoo! Mobile’s new Mobile Widget Platform gives us an exciting tool to further connect with our fans on their phones, empowering them to stay constantly plugged in to all the content they crave.”

“At LG, we believe in innovation and are proud to be partnering with Yahoo! to deliver its Mobile Widget Platform on our handsets,” said Dr. Skott Ahn, President & CEO of LG Electronics Mobile Communications Company. “This new platform will help us provide our customers with easier, more intuitive access to the content.”

“Motorola believes open mobile ecosystems are key to driving further innovation and new consumer experiences on mobile devices,” said Christy Wyatt, Vice President, Software Platforms & Ecosystem, Motorola. “With Yahoo!’s introduction of its open Mobile Widget Platform, the global developer community is provided a unique opportunity to bring new mobile Internet experiences to life.”

“ACCESS firmly believes that a more open mobile ecosystem leads to further innovation and, ultimately, improves the user experience,” said Toru Arakawa, president, CEO and co-founder of ACCESS. “We’re proud to announce our support for Yahoo!’s Mobile Widget Platform and look forward to helping ACCESS users around the globe participate in an enhanced mobile Internet experience.”

About Yahoo!

Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide. Yahoo! is focused on powering its communities of users, advertisers, publishers, and developers by creating indispensable experiences built on trust. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

For more information on Yahoo! Mobile please visit mobile.yahoo.com.

Yahoo!, Yahoo! Go 3.0 and the Yahoo! logo are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Yahoo! Inc. All other names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties concerning the Yahoo! Mobile Widget Platform and Yahoo! Go 3.0 (including without limitation the statements contained in the quotations from management in this press release), as well as Yahoo!’s strategic and operational plans. Actual events or results may differ materially from those described in this press release due to a number of risks and uncertainties. The potential risks and uncertainties include, among others, the possibility that the expected or planned further implementations of the Yahoo! Mobile Widget Platform and Yahoo! Go 3.0 described may be delayed, may not ultimately be implemented, or if implemented may not be successful; developers, publishers, and consumers may not accept or respond as positively to the Yahoo! Mobile Widget Platform and Yahoo! Go 3.0 as anticipated; and competitors may offer similar competing services. More information about potential factors that could affect Yahoo!’s business and financial results is included under the captions, “Risk Factors” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” in Yahoo!’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006 and Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30 , 2007, which are on file with the SEC and available at the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov.

Please visit http://mobile.yahoo.com/newsroom for additional information.

SOURCE: Yahoo! Inc.

Yahoo!, Inc.
Lucas Mast, 415-218-7204
lmast@yahoo-inc.com
Cory Pforzheimer, 408-349-2686
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National Real Estate Franchisors and Brokerages Move In at Yahoo!

National Real Estate Franchisors and Brokerages Move In at Yahoo!
New Program Allows Franchisors and Brokerages to Post Free Home Listings On Yahoo! Real Estate

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan 10, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Yahoo! Real Estate today launched its new online property listings program, allowing franchisors and brokers nationwide to post their complete set of home listings on the site for free on the Internet’s #1 real estate website. Prudential Real Estate Affiliates and Realogy Corporation, two of the industry’s largest franchisors, are among the first to participate in the service, enabling their teams of real estate professionals to market their full catalog of property listings on Yahoo! Real Estate. Realogy’s franchise brand networks include CENTURY 21, Coldwell Banker, ERA and Sotheby’s International Realty.

Several other leading real estate franchisors and brokerages have also elected to participate in the Yahoo! property listings program, making Yahoo! Real Estate one of the most comprehensive sites offering listings of existing homes for sale. These brokerages include: Assist 2 Sell, First Team Real Estate, GMAC Real Estate, Help-U-Sell, Houlihan Lawrence Real Estate, Illustrated Properties Real Estate, Intero Real Estate Services, Keller Williams Realty, Keyes Company, Long & Foster Companies, RealEstate.com REALTORS, Real Living, Realty Executives International, Weichert Realtors, and ZipRealty.

The new franchisor and brokerage partnerships complement Yahoo! Real Estate’s long-standing listings relationships with publishers and aggregators such as Harmon Homes, a division of Homes.com, Homes and Land, ListHub, The Real Estate Book, and Point2 Technologies, ensuring consumers are offered the widest range of real estate information possible online.

“We have benefited tremendously over the past five years from the marketing power Yahoo! Real Estate brings to the table,” said Laurie Keenan, President of Prudential Real Estate Affiliates. “As more and more prospective buyers and sellers turn to the Internet for their real estate needs, extending our partnership with Yahoo! allows Prudential to take advantage of leading interactive marketing services offered and to better service our affiliates, our agents, and our customers.”

As an extension of this online property listings program, Yahoo! Real Estate will offer franchisors and brokerages a variety of additional interactive marketing services, including featured home listings and display advertising. For example, Prudential Real Estate has pledged all of their affiliates’ listings to be featured properties as part of their commitment to continue their “Online Advantage” program.

“The real estate industry is fast-embracing a marketing mantra of wider distribution of property listings online,” said Michael Yang, vice president and general manager of Yahoo! Real Estate. “We know that 89 percent of consumers researching real estate online use a Yahoo! product or service in any given month, which presents an amazing opportunity for franchisors and brokerages to put their listings in front of homebuyers.”

Yahoo! Real Estate has experienced an 80 percent year-over-year growth rate in audience base and in November surpassed Realtor.com as the most visited online real estate site (comScore MediaMetrix, November 2007). Most recently, Yahoo! Real Estate introduced the following products to offer consumers one of the most comprehensive destinations for online real estate research and listings options:

— Guides & Advice (Newly launched at http://realestate.yahoo.com/info) provides detailed information for home buyers, sellers and owners to make the most educated real estate decisions. Features include expert opinions, how-to guides, timely real estate news in partnership with Inman News, as well as capabilities to rate, comment and share favorite articles.

— Schools Search (http://realestate.yahoo.com/schools), allows users to easily search, browse, and evaluate local schools via a map interface. Schools Search allows users to refine and sort their search by school district, distance, grade level, or school type (e.g. public, private, charter).

— Foreclosures Center (http://realestate.yahoo.com/foreclosures), offers the ability to search for properties in foreclosure, analyze trends in the foreclosure market, and education about buying properties in foreclosure.

— Home Values Center (http://realestate.yahoo.com/homevalues), provides home valuations from multiple sources, a library of articles and how-to guides on home value topics, and contacts for local appraisers.

— Neighborhoods Search (http://realestate.yahoo.com/neighborhoods), offers various information about a city of interest, including a quick glimpse of the city’s demographics, housing and education statistics, and general maps showing nearby schools, restaurants and shops.

— Home Loans Center (http://realestate.yahoo.com/loans), provides education on researching loans, financial calculators, expert how-to guides, national and state trends on mortgage and home equity, as well as top rated local mortgage brokers and comprehensive local rate searches.

For more information about how to distribute or market property listings on Yahoo! Real Estate, visit http://realestate.yahoo.com/partner or email aroraa@yahoo-inc.com.

About Yahoo! Real Estate

Yahoo! Real Estate is one of the largest and fastest-growing real estate Web sites in the market, having grown over 80 percent in the last year, according to ComScore Media Metrix November 2007 rankings. Yahoo! Real Estate provides users with one of the most comprehensive sets of real estate information and listings, including new and for-sale home listings, apartments for rent, home values, local schools, detailed neighborhood overviews, and home mortgage rates. Consumers can visit Yahoo! Real Estate at realestate.yahoo.com.

SOURCE: Yahoo!

Yahoo!
Jason Khoury, 408-349-3435
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Zimbra Expands Support for Award-Winning Collaboration Suite

Zimbra Expands Support for Award-Winning Collaboration Suite
Suite Now Offers Safari 3 Integration, CalDAV Support for iCal on Mac OS X Leopard, and Optimized iPhone Support

SAN MATEO, Calif., Jan 15, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Zimbra, a Yahoo! (Nasdaq:YHOO) company, and the leader in open source, next-generation messaging and collaboration software, today announced that it has expanded its support for Apple products and technologies, including Safari 3 and CalDAV for Mac OS X Leopard.

“The amazing speed of Safari 3 has blown the Zimbra team away and we are excited to be the first major collaboration platform to support the calendaring standard CalDAV,” said Satish Dharmaraj, CEO and co-founder of Zimbra. “We also wanted to expand our support for the iPhone by adding an optimized mobile web experience on top of our iSync support.”

“Leopard is packed with more than 300 new features, including major enhancements to Safari and iCal,” said Ron Okamoto, Apple’s vice president of Worldwide Developer Relations. “We’re pleased that Zimbra users can take advantage of the world’s fastest browser with Safari and improved iCal group calendaring with CalDAV in Leopard.”

The Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) fully supports Safari 3, which is the fastest Web browser on any platform and is available for Tiger and Leopard users and is in beta on Windows. ZCS’s rich AJAX interface, including email, calendaring, Zimbra Documents, and customizable mash-ups called Zimlets, takes full advantage of Safari’s optimized AJAX browsing experience.

To meet the advanced calendaring needs of Mac users, Zimbra now supports CalDAV, a key feature for customers using Leopard’s iCal 3 as their calendaring client. Based on a public standard, CalDAV allows users to synchronize and browse free/busy time and recurring appointments easily, both with personal and public calendars.

Additionally, ZCS is now available to iPhone users via the Zimbra Mobile HTML client. The iPhone’s Safari browser enables fast access to the full-featured AJAX interface, and the Zimbra Connector for Apple iSync allows users to sync not only their email but also their address books and calendars to their iPhones.

These enhancements reflect Zimbra’s ongoing commitment to the Mac community, and to providing innovative features for the Mac platform. Zimbra has long supported iSync, which provides a two-way sync between Apple Mail, Address Book, iCal, Microsoft Entourage, and the ZCS server. To test these new capabilities including support for Safari, CalDAV and iPhone, visit http://www.zimbra.com and register for a Hosted Demo Account.

Pricing and Availability

The ZCS 5.0 Open Source Edition, available now, is free. The commercially supported ZCS 5.0 Network Edition is available for a 60-day free trial on the Zimbra Website. ZCS Network Edition is available at a significant educational discount by contacting sales@zimbra.com. The Network Edition includes product support as well as software subscriptions to new releases, updates and patches. ZCS is available on-premise or as a hosted service; for information about Zimbra On-Demand or Zimbra’s hosting partner program, please visit http://www.zimbra.com/partners/. Users can discuss topics related to the Zimbra Collaboration Suite and provide feedback at http://www.zimbra.com/forums/.

About Zimbra

Zimbra, a Yahoo! company, is a leading provider of collaboration software for universities, businesses and service providers. Zimbra’s rich AJAX interface is available on or offline to dramatically improve the collaboration experience. Zimbra is available on-premise or on-demand through our extensive hosted partner program. More information at http://www.zimbra.com/.

About Yahoo!

Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide. Yahoo! is focused on powering its communities of users, advertisers, publishers, and developers by creating indispensable experiences built on trust. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. For more information, visit pressroom.yahoo.com or the company’s blog, Yodel Anecdotal.

SOURCE: Yahoo! Inc.

OutCast Communications
Liz Clinkenbeard, 415-392-8282 (Media)
liz@outcastpr.com

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Yahoo! Announces Support for OpenID; Users Able to Access Multiple Internet Sites with Their Yahoo! ID

Yahoo! Announces Support for OpenID; Users Able to Access Multiple Internet Sites with Their Yahoo! ID
Yahoo! Support Triples Number of OpenID Accounts to 368 million

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan 17, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today announced its support for the OpenID 2.0 digital identity framework for all 248 million active registered Yahoo! users worldwide. OpenID, an open framework based on proven Internet technologies, enables users to consolidate their Internet identity, eliminating the need to create separate IDs and logins at all of the various websites, blogs, and profile pages they may visit in the course of their online session. In addition to the many leading Yahoo! services users already enjoy, anyone with a Yahoo! ID will be able to use the same ID for easy access to any sites that support OpenID 2.0.

Yahoo!’s initial OpenID service, which will be available in public beta on January 30, enables a seamless and transparent web experience by allowing users to use their custom OpenID identifier on me.yahoo.com or to simply type in “www.yahoo.com” or “www.flickr.com” on any site that supports OpenID 2.0. Alternatively, web sites that accept OpenID 2.0 will be able to add a simple “Sign-in with Your Yahoo! ID” button to their login pages that will make it even easier for their users. Yahoo! is working with several partners, including Plaxo and JanRain, to make it possible for users to access these sites with their Yahoo! ID from the first day of the public beta.

“A Yahoo! ID is one of the most recognizable and useful accounts to have on the Internet and with our support of OpenID, it will become even more powerful,” said Ash Patel, executive vice president of platforms and infrastructure at Yahoo!. “Supporting OpenID gives our users the freedom to leverage their Yahoo! ID both on and off the Yahoo! network, reducing the number of usernames and passwords they need to remember and offering a single, trusted partner for managing their online identity.”

“Yahoo!’s commitment to an open web is a significant validation of the OpenID movement and Yahoo!’s adoption of the standard today immediately triples the total number of people able to use OpenID,” said Scott Kveton, chairman of the Board of Directors for the OpenID Foundation. “With Yahoo! actively engaged with the OpenID Foundation and its community to promote OpenID, Yahoo!’s users will be able to more easily access the many sites across the web that support the standard, and the potential for access to Yahoo!’s vast international user base will create an even more powerful incentive for additional websites to begin accepting OpenID users.”

Yahoo!’s implementation is based on the OpenID 2.0 specification, which Yahoo! worked closely with the OpenID foundation and community to finalize in December 2007, and includes new features that improve security and usability of OpenID, making it the most user-friendly single sign-on and online user-authentication standard. Yahoo! users who log in with their Yahoo! ID on OpenID sites will have the added protection of Yahoo!’s sign-in seal wherever they go on the web. In addition, no email or IM addresses are revealed or disclosed as part of the login process, which further helps protect users from phishing or other attacks.

“Plaxo believes that users should be able to carry their identity and personal information with them wherever they go across the social web,” said Joseph Smarr, chief platform architect of Plaxo. “Yahoo! is making that vision a reality by becoming an OpenID provider. Yahoo! users will be able to easily access Plaxo and other services without having to create and remember yet another password. This also paves the way for a secure approach to data portability between the various services people use across the web.”

“At JanRain, we believe the evolution of the Internet and the next generation of web applications hinges on universal adoption of a secure, portable digital identity,” said Larry Drebes, founder and vice president of engineering for JanRain. “JanRain is a leader in OpenID libraries, tools and applications, and has worked closely with Yahoo! to integrate its new OpenID offering into our services. The addition of 248 million Yahoo! users to the OpenID ecosystem will be a tremendous milestone in expanding the user base for OpenID.”

Yahoo! will continue to devote resources to helping to improve the OpenID user experience and to educating its users. In addition, Yahoo! intends to expand its support of OpenID by adopting other elements of the program as the service evolves. More information and updates can be found at http://openid.yahoo.com.

About OpenID

OpenID is an open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric digital identity, which eliminates the need for multiple usernames across different websites, simplifying your online experience. OpenID is still in the adoption phase and is becoming more and more popular, as large organizations like AOL, Microsoft, Sun, Novell, etc. begin to accept and provide OpenIDs. Today it is estimated that there are over 120-million OpenID enabled URLs with nine thousand sites supporting OpenID logins.

OpenID has arisen from the open source community to solve the problems that could not be easily solved by other existing technologies. The OpenID Foundation was formed to assist the open source model by providing a legal entity to be the steward for the community by providing needed infrastructure and generally helping to promote and support expanded adoption of OpenID.

About Yahoo! Inc.

Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide. Yahoo! is focused on powering its communities of users, advertisers, publishers, and developers by creating indispensable experiences built on trust. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. For more information, visit pressroom.yahoo.com (http://pressroom.yahoo.com/) or the company’s blog, Yodel Anecdotal (http://yodel.yahoo.com/).

SOURCE: Yahoo! Inc.

Yahoo! Corporate Communications
Denis Roy, 408-349-2570

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