In December the company struck a deal with Yahoo to provide mobile Web services to 16 Latin American and Caribbean nations.
Chowdhry believed that if Thompson was given the freedom to reposition Yahoo as a mobile payments company, it could experience massive growth.
Choosing iOS also means you can't make Axis your default browser, so any links you get from other apps can't be directly shared with Yahoo's mobile app.
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"Yahoo's mobile programs can definitely complement Microsoft's strategy, " adds Gartenberg.
Yahoo Japan, jointly owned by mobile firm Softbank and Yahoo, said it had tightened security measures in the wake of the attack and was investigating to ensure attackers could not repeat the theft.
She also has been revamping the look of Yahoo's existing Web services, from its Yahoo.com Home Page to Yahoo Mail, and creating new apps for mobile devices such as Yahoo Weather.
In bold move to re-assert its position in the Web navigation business, Yahoo tonight is launching Yahoo Axis, a mobile browser and search tool that adds some new twists to a crowded space.
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And competition between Google, Facebook, Yahoo, fixed and mobile operators to seize control of the data opportunities of a global and very large customer base in mobile (at least 4 times the size of the fixed line internet population) is impacting on other sectors.
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It's a complementary play as well: Zozotown is strong in mobile devices while Yahoo is strong in PCs.
Ms. Mayer has made a number of moves to expand Yahoo's presence on mobile devices, freshen up its sites and boost its revenue.
The app itself will now close, but its features will be used in mobile products at Yahoo, where Mr D'Aloisio has been given a job.
Mayer says Yahoo is not breaking out mobile this quarter. 200 million monthly unique users on mobile is something you should look at - revenue will follow.
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She said that during the quarter Yahoo made progress "by growing our executive team, signing key partnerships including those with NBC Sports and CBS Television and launching terrific mobile experiences for Yahoo Mail and Flickr".
Yahoo has 200 million unique mobile users.
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While mobile is a "nascent source of revenue for us, " Yahoo sites get more than 200 million monthly unique visitors from mobile-device users, Ms. Mayer said on Monday's call following the earnings release.
There will be a few large players in the mobile search space, and Yahoo should be one of them.
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Yahoo's senior vice president of mobile, Adam Cahan, said the company was "excited" to have Mr D'Aloisio and his colleagues on board.
If Yahoo hopes to become a leader in mobile payments as Chowdhry predicted, Levchin might be a good guy to have on the board.
But if Yahoo loses another 5% of the mobile advertising market over the next four years, we would expect the average monthly unique visitor total to reach only 697 million by 2014.
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Those, and mobile applications, will be how Yahoo envisions its customers using the service.
But when people moved to mobile and social network news, Yahoo and AOL decided to become media companies.
The problem, however, is that most of these companies were in the wrong space, as the Yahoo has failed to expand its presence in mobile search and the social media.
While photo-sharing luster has moved to other apps in recent, more mobile times, Flickr, according to Yahoo!
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Small Business, millions of consumers using Flickr for a photo sharing service, and the announcement that mobile will be a top priority for Yahoo!
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