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Information Technology News Yahoo and Symantec team up to fight Microsoft | Yahoo and Symantec team up to fight Microsoft |
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| by Stan Beer | |
| Tuesday, 25 July 2006 | |
  
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. {moscomment} |
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