Thursday, November 15, 2007

Taiwan market: Yahoo! launches Chinese-language Yahoo! Go 2.0

Harris Lin, Taipei; Adam Hwang, DIGITIMES [Wednesday 14 November 2007]

At the ongoing 2007 GSMA (GSM Association) Mobile Asia Congress in Macao, Yahoo! announced the launch of a version of Yahoo! Go 2.0 in traditional Chinese in Taiwan, marking the entry of Yahoo! Kimo (Yahoo! Taiwan) into the mobile market in Taiwan, according to a Yahoo! Kimo press release.

Yahoo! Go 2.0 is a mobile Internet-access software program that allows handsets or other types of hand-held devices access to Yahoo! online services, said vice president and general manager David Ko for Yahoo! Connected Life Asia.

To provide Yahoo! Go 2.0 services, Yahoo! has cooperated with 20 mobile telecom carriers around the world with 16 of them being in the Asia Pacifc region, according to Yahoo! Kimo.

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