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Yahoo Readies New VoIP Service

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the do-you-yahoo-phone dept.

Rob writes "Yahoo is readying to capture a larger piece of the VoIP market and will announce a new VoIP product during the next two weeks. The new service would be comparable to Skype Technologies SA's, said Safa Rashtchy, senior research analyst at Wall Street researcher Piper Jaffray Co, which makes a market in Yahoo stock. The impending move by Sunnyvale, California-based Yahoo into the VoIP arena would potentially be disruptive."

3 of 125 comments (clear)

  1. Crowded, Much? by BishonenAngstMagnet · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh goody, yet another link on their homepage I can click on.

  2. Great..... by Jambon · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can see the TV ads already: Think The Waaassuup Guys except they're yelling "Yaaaaahooo!!!". That and most of the people in the ads are white (not because Yahoo! is racist, but just because I can't see a bunch of black guys phoning each other and yelling "YAAAHOOOO!". The phrase "Yaaahoo!" is about as white as you get).

  3. Re:Yahoo Readies New VoIP Service by Ingolfke · · Score: 5, Funny

    Good Business Move. Diversification of product portfolio. Nice portal, Search, VoIP, Instant Messaging.. what next?

    Choose One:
    a) Yahoo!OS
    b) Free Wi-Fi for all
    c) Whatever Google is rumored to be working on
    d) Following BSD and Gentoo down the path to oblivion