Yahoo has buy Koprol.com, an Indonesian cell phone position based services Web company alike to Foursquare in the U.S.

The buy gives Yahoo a specialist in place based mobile services, as well as helping people find close by narrow businesses absolute with reviews, on their mobile phones, as well as considering where friends are and what they're doing, and more.

Previous to Tuesday's statement, Yahoo had allegedly been looking for a contract for New York City-based Foursquare esteemed at over $100 million.

Yahoo buys Koprol since people are increasingly using mobile devices to access the Internet, the company said in a declaration. "This is particularly true in many rising markets where we are bring in the Yahoo product to lots of new to Net users," said, senior vice president of the Asia Region for Yahoo, in a declaration. "Koprol was exclusively designed for mobile phones and inside a year has already constructed a strong client base," she added.

Yahoo plans to initiate Koprol in novel markets, but did not speak when.
"For us, union a company like Yahoo was a simple choice to make and will obtain Koprol to the next level.

We are very eager," Koprol said on its blog, addition that Koprol is well suitable for Indonesia and the emerging markets in universal.