Companies Sign New Multi-Year Agreement to
Pre-Load Yahoo! Go for Mobile on Millions of Motorola Mobile Devices
LIBERTYVILLE, IL and SUNNYVALE, CA – 20 July 2006 – Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT),
and Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) today announced a new multi-year agreement to
distribute Yahoo! Go for Mobile on tens of millions of new Motorola mobile
devices. Yahoo! Go for Mobile (http://go.yahoo.com/mobile)
brings an integrated suite of Yahoo!’s leading services including Yahoo! Mail,
Yahoo! Search, Yahoo! Address Book and Yahoo! Local into a single application
that connects consumers to their personalized Internet experience through their
mobile device.
As part of the agreement, Motorola will pre-load and prominently feature Yahoo!
Go for Mobile on optimised handsets worldwide starting in the first half of
2007, giving consumers quick and easy access to their Internet content and
services. The devices will be available to consumers in a number of markets
across the Americas, Europe, and Asia.
"This agreement is an important next step in showing the world the best of
what can happen when Motorola's Seamless Mobility meets Yahoo!'s Connected Life
services," said Scott Durchslag, corporate vice-president of Product and
Xperience Invention, Mobile Devices, Motorola. "Our collaboration
with Yahoo! on exciting future versions of Yahoo! Go for Mobile will ensure
that our customers and consumers get the most optimised Yahoo! experience
possible on the coolest mobile devices."
“Consumers are no longer tethered to just accessing Internet on their desktop
computer, so we are bringing the best of Yahoo!’s services to the device they
always have with them and use multiple times every day – their mobile phone,”
said Marco Boerries, senior vice president, Connected Life, Yahoo!. “Together,
Yahoo! and Motorola are making it easier than ever before for consumers
to seamlessly access their favourite web services, information and
content across both their personal computer and mobile phone."
Motorola and Yahoo! announced their global alliance in July 2005 and have
worked closely over the past year to deliver on their commitment to make it
easy for consumers to access and use Internet services on Motorola devices. The
companies will jointly market the Motorola devices with Yahoo! Go for Mobile
pre-installed through their online networks, device packaging and other
targeted channels.
Source: Motorola press release
