{"id":15288,"date":"2011-11-02T18:36:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T16:36:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"yahoo-south-africa-launching-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/15288-yahoo-south-africa-launching-soon","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo! South Africa launching soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19980-Yahoo!\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Company Information\">Yahoo!<\/a>, one of the largest Internet companies globally, is planning to launch a search and news portal in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The  company announced on <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19976-Twitter\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Company Information\">Twitter<\/a> that &ldquo;Yahoo! South Africa brings you  in-depth coverage of news from South Africa and around the world  including finance, sport, entertainment and breaking news&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>On 27 October the company tweeted &ldquo;1 month till launch. Stay tuned! #Yahoo!SouthAfrica.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Technology  blog <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19984-TechCentral\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Company Information\">Techcentral<\/a> reported that a Yahoo! spokesperson confirmed that  they will be launching a service in South Africa soon, &lsquo;but declined to  provide any further information&rsquo;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19988-Google\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Company Information\">Google<\/a> currently has a dominant  position in the South African search market, and through their local  presence has established a strong foothold in the local online  advertising arena.<\/p>\n<p>From the information available, and unlike  Google, it looks as if Yahoo will not rely mainly on search for traffic,  but rather on news. It will therefore take on news portals like <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19986-News24\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Company Information\">News24<\/a>,  <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19978-Howzit.MSN\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Company Information\">Howzit.MSN<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19994-IOL-Independent-Online\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Company Information\">IOL<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The URL za.yahoo.com currently redirects to  the Yahoo! UK website, and it is assumed that this will become the home  of the local Yahoo! website in future.<\/p>\n<p><em>Article courtesy of MyBroadband &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/37394-yahoo-is-coming-to-south-africa.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Yahoo! is coming to South Africa\">Yahoo! is coming to South Africa<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19950-Yahoo!-to-launch-in-South-Africa-soon\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Yahoo! South Africa launching soon\"><strong>Yahoo! South Africa launching soon<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo! is planning to launch a South African search and news portal this month<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}