Chungwa taps Yahoo for mobile search deal

Chinese operator giant Chungwa Telecom announced a mobile search pact with web services kingpin Yahoo. The non-exclusive agreement extends for one year. "This is a service that will give users a faster search function on their phones," Chunghwa Telecom mobile business group vice president Lin Jen-Hon told Dow Jones Newswires.

In related Yahoo news, the firm announced its Yahoo Mobile service is now available in nine additional countries--Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Australia, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Spain and Italy--and 100 more devices worldwide. Yahoo Mobile now extends across 17 markets in the Americas, Europe and Asia and supports more than 400 devices, including Apple's iPhone.

For more on the Chungwa/Yahoo deal:
- read this Wall Street Journal article

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