Yahoo Offers Movable Type for Small Businesses

Yahoo Web Hosting has begun to offer Six Apart’s Movable Type blogging software to small businesses and independent professionals seeking to maintain high-traffic blogs on a scalable, reliable platform, Yahoo announced yesterday. Six Apart has optimized Movable Type specifically for Yahoo’s hosting environment to significantly increase speed and performance.

Yahoo will in effect become the preferred supplier of Movable Type for small businesses, and the partnership is the latest in a series of moves by Yahoo to embrace “social media,” writes Reuters.

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