• Yahoo Connected TV Now Available On Select Toshiba TVs

    Wednesday, September 15th, 2010

    Leena Rao currently works as a writer for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography. From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was... → Learn More

    Yahoo has just announced that Yahoo Connected TV is now available on a number of new models of Toshiba television sets, including Toshiba 46”-55” HDTVs and the WX800 Cinema Series 3D LED.

    The Yahoo Connected TV service provides widgets and apps on TVs, allowing users to access more than 65 Yahoo TV Widgets, including those for Twitter, Pandora, eBay, CBS, and USA Today, and thousands of content sources. Via the program, consumers also have access to over 50,000 movies and TV shows and thousands of entertainment sources on demand.

    Yahoo Connected TV is also available on certain Sony, Vizio, LG and Samsung television models. Yahoo also recently struck a deal with European TV manufacturer Vestel Group to ship Yahoo Connected TV to consumers in more than 40 countries across Europe starting in Q1 2011.

    Toshiba, a world leader in high technology, is a diversified manufacturer and marketer of advanced electronic and electrical products, spanning information & communications equipment and systems, Internet-based solutions and services, electronic components and materials, power systems, industrial and social infrastructure systems, and household appliances.

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    Yahoo was founded in 1994 by Stanford Ph.D. students David Filo and Jerry Yang. It has since evolved into a major internet brand with search, content verticals, and other web services. Yahoo! Inc. (Yahoo!), incorporated in 1995, is a global Internet brand. To users, the Company provides owned and operated online properties and services (Yahoo! Properties, Offerings, or Owned and Operated sites). Yahoo! also extends its marketing platform and access to Internet users beyond Yahoo! Properties through its distribution network...

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