Yahoo To Throw A Hail Mary To Nokia — But The Football Will Be Tied To A Brick

Earlier today, Yahoo sent out an email to the press notifying us about a special event on Monday with CEO Carol Bartz . The event happens to be in New York City which is interesting for two reasons. 1) Foursquare , the subject of many Yahoo aqusition rumors , is based in NY. 2) Most of TechCrunch will be in New York for our TechCrunch Disrupt conference. So what is Yahoo up to? AllThingsD found out this evening. It's definitely not about Foursquare. It's about Nokia. According to Kara Swisher's sources, Yahoo will be announcing a deal with Nokia that will build Yahoo email, search, and other applications into their devices. At first glance, this is a very big deal. Nokia, after all, is still by far the largest mobile phone maker in the world. Recent reports give Nokia a 37.4% share of the global market (in Q1 2010). That's far ahead of number 2, Samsung, which has about 20%. Where's the much-talked-about Apple on that list? Number six, with 3%.