YAHOO! TEAMS WITH ONLINE ANYWHERE TO ENABLE "YAHOO! EVERYWHERE"

Online Anywhere Service Extends Yahoo! Content Beyond the Desktop

SANTA CLARA, Calif. and PALO ALTO, Calif. – April 5, 1999 – Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO), a global Internet media company, and Online Anywhere, a leading provider of Web delivery solutions for information appliances, today announced an agreement that will enable Yahoo! content and services to be optimized and delivered to personal digital assistants (PDAs) and TV-based Internet appliances. Under the agreement, the Author Once, View Anywhereä service from Online Anywhere will be employed to format Yahoo!’s personalized Internet services such as email, calendar, stock quotes, maps, sports, weather, yellow pages, people search, ski and snow reports, restaurant guides, and more for display on non-PC devices.

The Online Anywhere service will allow Yahoo! users nationwide to optimize the display of Yahoo! personalized content retrieved from TV-based Internet appliances such as WebTV and NCI, as well as from PDAs such as the Palm III and Palm-sized PCs running WinCE and Pocket Internet Explorer. Future optimization of Yahoo! content and services will enable enhanced display on a variety of information appliances, including TV-based Internet appliances (WebTV and NCI), other PDAs , and wireless devices (pagers, data phones).

"Online Anywhere offers the key enabling service necessary to distribute Yahoo! personalized content and services through a range of PC, wireless, and other handheld devices," said Ellen Siminoff, vice president of business development and strategic planning, Yahoo! Inc. "As part of our ‘Yahoo! Everywhere’ strategy, we remain committed to forging agreements with companies, such as Online Anywhere, that offer Yahoo! content display integrity and maximum extensibility in the PC environment and beyond."

My Yahoo! Beyond the Desktop

"As one of the leading Internet brands, extending the Yahoo! franchise beyond the PC to Internet-connected devices is critical," said Mohan Vishwanath, chief executive officer, Online Anywhere. "Author Once, View Anywhere functionality will help Yahoo! users access their personalized Yahoo! content and services wherever they go. The ability to access all types of information without being tethered to a PC is the next logical step for Internet users."

Online Anywhere, a Motorola (NYSE:MOT) Ventures funded start-up, enables content providers to rapidly reformat and deliver their content to televisions, PDAs, and wireless devices. Based on patented FlashMapä technology, which automatically converts content that has been formatted for a PC to a format appropriate for the device, Online Anywhere eliminates the need for content providers to develop, maintain, and store separate Web pages for each device. Online Anywhere offers open solutions, giving the content provider the flexibility to support any device, browser, markup language, or transport protocol.


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