Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is launching its own mobile development platform. Not exactly a direct competitor to Google-backed Android though, but as this FT story says it focuses on a narrower area, and is aimed at developers and publishers who want their apps to run on many different handsets.
Essentially it opens up Yahoo
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