14 DAY TRIAL // New day, new rumors concerning the Sunnyvale super giant Yahoo. It seems like Yahoo wants to design a HDTV Internet portal for the Japanese users but the company's officials didn't say a word about this piece of speculation. Trading Market reported that Yahoo wants to design this portal until the end of the fiscal year, and that an expansion outside Japan might be possible in the future. It is a pretty nice idea because Japan has always been one of the tech-savvy countries which might find the Yahoo portal as a revolutionary web-based technology. Moreover, according to the same source, the Sunnyvale company plans alliances with the local firms in order to assure that it will offer the best solutions on the market.
The first one will be Sharp Corporation which will support Yahoo in building HDTV-compatible technologies to be bundled inside the upcoming portal.
"Yahoo Japan Corp, Japan's largest online auction site operator, plans to launch an Internet portal for televisions that can handle high-definition programming as early as the current fiscal year, the Nikkei reported on Tuesday, without citing sources," Trading Markets reported today.
"The portal will initially offer services that primarily provide information via still photos and text, such as maps, restaurant information and rankings of books sales, it said. The company will add video distribution and services that promote interactive participation among users later depending on user trends, the report said."
Yahoo Japan has always been one of the giant portal's flavors which tried new products and technologies that were then globally released. However, we have to wait a long time before the Sunnyvale giant manages to design such a portal because Yahoo seems to target a long campaign full of partnerships, agreements and deals which are able to support the expansion plans.