Yahoo Strikes Deal With Vodafone

Yahoo is making its way, one step at a time, into the mobile market. The search engine company announced a "strategic alliance" with Vodafone Tuesday, which may act to give it leverage in a number of European countries.

description of the telecommunications corporation states that it "has ownership interests in 26 countries across 5 continents. In addition, the Group has Partner Networks in a further 34 countries." This translates into about "191.6 million proportionate customers in its subsidiaries, joint ventures, affiliates and investments," and "at 30 September 2006, there were 577.4 million venture customers." For now, though, the agreement is limited to the UK. Yahoo is probably quite pleased with that, even as it plans to further expand its range of mobile services. Tag: Add to Del.icio.us | Digg | Reddit | Furl Bookmark Murdok: Doug is a staff writer for Murdok for the latest eBusiness news.