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- In order to streamline the application, Yahoo will get rid of 12
products services in an effort to sharpen its focus on service. That said, this is done to improve the quality of the applications that are widely used by people in their daily lives.
"Today
we cover some of our products, so that we can continue to focus on
creating products that can support the day-to-day our users," said
executive vice president of Yahoo, Jay Rossiter in an official blog
post.
Previously, the company also has cut a lot of products in April. Here are some of the services that will be closed by Yahoo, as copied from PC World, Saturday (29/06/2013):
Yahoo Axis, a browser plug-in (June 28)Yahoo Browser Plus, a service for application developers (June 28)Citizen Sports, sports news (June 28)Yahoo WebPlayer, media player to your site (June 30)FoxyTunes, a plug-in to control different media players (July 1)Yahoo RSS Alerts (July 1)Neighbors Yahoo Beta, to help get the information about the environment (July 8)Alta Vista, Yahoo's search engine the oldest (July 8)Stars Yahoo India, celebrity news (July 25)Yahoo Beta Download, applications to download third pohak (July 31)Yahoo Local API, the application developer to provide access to local business information (28 September)Yahoo Term Extraction API, to extract terms and keywords of the site (28 September)
Following the closing of Alta Vista, Yahoo encourage users to migrate to the regular Yahoo opencari page. In addition, readers can switch sports news from Yahoo Sports Citizen Sports to stay updated news for his favorite team.
Over
the last few months, the company is focusing on products and services
in everyday life, such as email, weather applications, sports, finance
and photos.
"We make investments and for that we also will continue to make investments that will drive growth," said CEO Marissa Mayer.
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