Yahoo! (YHOO) is cutting deals to improve its mobile foot-print is Asia. Wireless is one of the few areas where the company might beat rival Google (GOOG).

The Silicon Valley-based Internet company also said on Tuesday that it was introducing a mobile service called Yahoo Go in traditional Chinese in Taiwan.These deals build on six earlier Asian carrier partnerships announced in June.

"Those 16 deals will give us roughly 40 percent coverage of all subscribers in those countries," Yahoo’s top mobile executive, Marco Boerries, said in a phone interview with Reuters.

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Douglas A. McIntyre