Yahoo! Shuttering some of its services
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“Yahoo! Inc. is shuttering a few of its online services, including a coupon site and a local events calendar, as Chief Executive Officer
Marissa Mayer sharpens the Web portal’s focus on applications for mobile devices,” Douglas MacMillan reports for Bloomberg. “Yahoo! Deals and Upcoming will shut down April 30, the Sunnyvale, California-based company said in a blog post today. Yahoo! Kids will close the same day, along with its SMS update service and older versions of its e-mail and messenger apps.”
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“The company wants to trim its 60 to 75 products to about a dozen to offer popular mobile apps, Mayer said at an investor conference in February.,” MacMillan reports. “Earlier this week, Yahoo unveiled an e-mail app for [iPad, iPad mini, and also-ran tablets] that lets users manage their inbox by swiping messages into groups organized by sender, as well as a new program for checking weather forecasts on smartphones [Yahoo! Weather]. In March, Yahoo said it would end products including an app for BlackBerry devices, Yahoo! App Search and Yahoo! Message Boards.”
MacMillan reports, “The company grew to more than 300 million monthly mobile users in the first quarter, from 200 million at the end of 2012.”
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