Nokia and Yahoo shook hands to sign a alliance deal which will help the companies to give pace to their growth and fight the ever growing competition.As the first step , Nokia will use Yahoo’s mail and Messenger service in place of Ovi Mail and Yahoo will use Nokia OVI to power Yahoo Maps.
- As part of the alliance:
- Nokia will be the exclusive, global provider of Yahoo!’s maps and navigation services, integrating Ovi Maps across Yahoo! properties, branded as “powered by Ovi.”
- Yahoo! will become the exclusive, global provider of Nokia’s Ovi Mail and Ovi Chat services branded as “Ovi Mail / Ovi Chat powered by Yahoo!”
- Nokia and Yahoo! plan to work on ID federation between their services, beginning by making it easy for people to use their Ovi user IDs across select Yahoo! properties to easily access the online content and services they need.
You can read more details at the Nokia Press Release
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