Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Internet content and services provider Yahoo and security market leader Symantec have teamed up to offer Yahoo customers a security offering designed to blunt Microsoft's entry into the security space.
The two companies plan to offer internet security products to Yahoo
customers at discounted rates to counter Microsoft's recent entry into
the security space, undercutting former partners such as Symantec and
McAfee in the process.
Yahoo has the most visitors of any web
site in the world and Symantec wants to gain access to the hundreds of
millions who use services such as Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Messenger.
In
turn, internet security is a big issue with web surfers and Yahoo wants
a well known brand, such as Norton Internet Security, that it can sell
to users at a better than market price.
The internet space, including search and messaging, is currently seeing a spate of such alliances of expediency.
Symantec
currently has a preferred supplier agreement with Google. Yahoo has a
messaging interoperability agreement with Microsoft and an internet
search agreement with eBay. Meanwhile, eBay is one of Google's biggest
customers. Where it will end, is anybody's guess.
David Bass
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