Don’t be surprised if more YouTube-sourced content starts to appear on news sites and in televised news programs.
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Yahoo announced a global partnership with Samsung today, which will see Yahoo services coming pre-installed on a variety of mobile devices from the manufacturer . The two companies have partnered since 2007, but that relationship is now being greatly expanded. “By making our most popular Yahoo! services available on Samsung mobile devices around the world, we’re providing consumers with personally relevant mobile Internet experiences that make it easy for them to stay connected to what’s important to them and explore the full potential of their device,” said David Ko, senior vice president, Audience, Mobile and Local for Yahoo!. “We’re thrilled to deepen our relationship with Samsung and look forward to continuing to drive the global adoption of mobile Internet services.” Dr. Ho Soo Lee, EVP, Media Solution Center, Samsung Electronics (L) and David Ko, SVP, Audience, Mobile and Local, North America, Yahoo! (R), sign strategic global partnership to pre-load Yahoo! services on tens of millions of Samsung devices. (Photo: Business Wire) Yahoo services that purchasers of Samsung devices may find include: – Yahoo Mail – Yahoo Messenger – Yahoo Contacts and Calendar – Yahoo Mobile Front Page – Yahoo Search – Flickr – Yahoo News – Yahoo finance – Yahoo Weather “We want to provide our customers with the best possible services designed to enhance their mobile experience,” said Kenny Lee, vice president of content planning at Samsung. “Our relationship with Yahoo! continues to grow and benefit our global consumer base, who wants access popular Yahoo! services from their Samsung phone.” While the announcement did not reveal specifically what devices that will come loaded with Yahoo services, it did say that it will include those running the Samsung bada and Android platforms.
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People who – deep breath – live in the UK or Ireland, don’t like to get lost, can tolerate beta software, and own a new-ish Android phone are in luck.
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Depending on how you look at it, Google’s either in a whole lot of trouble, or it’s gotten a lucky break.
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Mobile advertising firm Millennial Media has put out a report mobile devices and their impact on advertising. “For the past year Millennial Media has released a monthly SMART report (Scorecard for Mobile Advertising Reach and Targeting), which discusses trends in the mobile ad space. Beginning this month, they’ve decided to release an additional device-focused report, the Media Mobile Mix,” a representative for the firm tells WebProNews. “The Media Mobile Mix will highlight monthly device-focused trends, including growth, percentage of ad impressions, etc,” she adds. “For example, data for March shows that although Apple continued to represent the majority of impressions, the number served by Android and connected devices, like Sony PSPs or iPads, increased drastically.” Some other interesting data from the report: – U.S. device impression data breakout: Smartphones (45%), Feature Phones (34%), and Connected Devices (21%).
Tags: ad space, data, devices, feature phones, ipads, mack, mcke, millennial media, mobile, mobile devices, mobile-phone, Research, Review and Story