Yahoo is in talks with Apple to make its services available prominently on Apple’s iPhone and iPad devices.
The discussions include new arrangements that include expected deals to extract more content from Yahoo News and its other Web properties incorporated onto Apple devices or offered via an expanded Siri partnership.
According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, applications powered by data from Yahoo Finance and Yahoo’s weather website already come preloaded on iPhones, while some Yahoo data including sports stats, assist in powering Apple’s voice-activated assistant Siri.
In addition, Yahoo is reportedly considering several plans to offer Web-search results to Apple, in a bid to reduce its reliance on Google, while the idea is still to be worked out due to Yahoo’s collaboration with Microsoft, and Apple’s deal to use Google’s Web-search service as the default in its devices.
In 2012, both the companies reportedly came closer after Apple started tapping more data from Yahoo for an update to Siri.
