Yahoo lands in SA - but why?

7 Dec 2011

Global media site and search engine Yahoo launched an South African-specific portal on Tuesday, 6 December 2011. The site aggregates SA news from the likes of the Daily Maverick, AFP, Associated Press and Reuters, and will offer users mailboxes on a .co.za domain.

The question is why it's launching only now, given that Google, with Gmail and Google News SA, and Microsoft, with Windows Live Mail and Howzit MSN, are already entrenched in the local market.

...Will Green, MD at Yahoo SA's PR agency Apurimac, says that although the local site will only serve aggregated and syndicated content for the foreseeable future, he believes consumers will benefit because of the way in which Yahoo customises content for users based on their previous behaviour.

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