Also Debuts New Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! News HTML5 Mobile Websites for iPhone;
Yahoo! Search Widget for Android
SUNNYVALE, Calif.–(Business Wire)–
In continuing to develop leading mobile products and services that reach a broad
audience across multiple platforms, Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) today expanded the
reach of its industry-leading services with the immediate availability of Yahoo!
Mail and Yahoo! Messenger apps for Android as well as a Yahoo! Search Widget for
Android.

Leveraging the latest HTML5 technology, Yahoo! is also debuting faster and
richer Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! News sites for iPhone and iPod Touch. These new
mobile products will provide the hundreds of millions of loyal consumers who
rely on Yahoo! Mail, Messenger, Search, and News with seamless, integrated
experiences on their mobile devices.

“Yahoo! keeps more than 600 million consumers around the world connected to the
people and things that matter to them most – wherever and whenever they want,”
said David Ko, senior vice president, Americas, Audience, Mobile, and Local for
Yahoo!. “With the availability of our world-class Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo!
Messenger apps for Android and by harnessing the latest in HTML5, we`re making
it easier than ever for consumers to access fast, reliable, and feature-rich
Yahoo! experiences across some of the fastest growing platforms in the market.”

Easy Access to Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger on Android

With a visually stunning interface as well as new functionality and other
enhancements optimized for the Android platform, the Yahoo! apps for Android
provide more than 300 million Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger users with the
best communication experience for easily accessing and sharing information on
Android phones.

The Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger Android apps are available globally as free
downloads available in the Android Market, supporting OS 2.0 or newer.

With the new Yahoo! Mail App for Android, consumers can:

* Receive push notification of new email messages
* Send emails to contacts from the Yahoo! Address Book as well as to contacts in
the native phone address book
* Search email messages by sender, recipient, subject and keywords
* Upload photos as attachments directly from the phone`s camera or the photo
gallery
* View and download attachments
* Insert emoticons and rich text formatting into emails
* Effectively manage and organize their Yahoo! Mail messages, folders, and spam
* Easily toggle between the Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger apps

In addition to providing a robust consumer experience, the Yahoo! Mail app for
Android offers advertisers an opportunity to reach a highly engaged mobile
audience. Samsung is the inaugural advertiser with a rich media display
advertising unit.

With the new Yahoo! Messenger App for Android, consumers can:

* Easily message friends, check friends` status updates and availability and
update their personal status and availability
* Send instant messages to friends via SMS text message1
* Multitask and stay connected with the app working in the background; with push
notifications, consumers can easily catch new messages and friend requests
* Get full use of emoticons and rich text formatting
* Send photos to friends directly from the phone`s camera or the photo gallery

Also available today, the Yahoo! Search Widget for Android provides consumers
with convenient one-click access to Yahoo! Search. After the Widget is
installed, a Yahoo! Search box is easily accessible on the home screen. With
voice search for easier input, Search Assist for quick suggestions and
recommendations, and auto-locate technology to deliver locally relevant results,
the Yahoo! Search Widget quickly provides the answers a consumer needs.

The Yahoo! Search Widget is currently available in the U.S. only for free. It is
available for download in the Android Market and supports OS 2.0 or newer.

Upgraded Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! News for iPhone and iPod Touch

Harnessing the latest technology, Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! News are now built on
HTML5 to give consumers a faster and more sophisticated mobile browsing
experience.

The upgraded Yahoo! Mail offers consumers a webmail experience that is fast and
reliable and that easily surfaces rich content. Now available globally in 28
languages across 200 countries, Yahoo! Mail is optimized for iPhone and iPod
Touch and is expected to be available across other Webkit-enabled browsers in
the future.

With HTML5 Yahoo! Mail consumers can:

* View HTML messages; compose rich text messages, reply, search emails, and
access folders while offline
* Manage folders and create smart folders with messages from key contacts
* Surface photos and video attachments directly within the mail preview
* Enjoy a seamless experience with Yahoo! Mail across mobile and desktop

Additionally, now Yahoo! News includes an all-new layout with animated visual
effects and navigation that uses touch gestures to deliver a compelling news
experience. Yahoo! brings the news to life with photos, slideshows, and video
features, and provides consumers with an option to explore related articles.
Currently available in the U.S. on the iPhone or iPod Touch browser, the product
is expected to become available in additional countries and on additional
devices.

For more information about the products and services, visit Yahoo.com and search
for: “Yahoo! and Mobile”

About Yahoo!

Yahoo! attracts hundreds of millions of users every month through its innovative
technology and engaging content and services, making it one of the most visited
Internet destinations and a world-class online media company. Yahoo!’s vision is
to be the center of people’s online lives by delivering personally relevant,
meaningful Internet experiences. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale,
California. For more information, visit http://pressroom.yahoo.com, the
company’s blog, Yodel Anecdotal (http://yodel.yahoo.com) or the Yahoo! Mobile
blog (http://ymobileblog.com). (YHOO — M)

1 Users may send SMS text messages only to their contacts in the following
countries: Canada, Indonesia, India, Kuwait, Malaysia, Philippines, Pakistan,
Thailand, United States and Vietnam.

Yahoo!
Cory Pforzheimer, 408-349-2686
coryp@yahoo-inc.com
Jason Khoury, 408-349-3435
jkhoury@yahoo-inc.com

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