Yahoo! closes part of projects and changes strategy

Yahoo! plans to close several of his projects. One of them is Yahoo Pipes . It allows you to create applications that combine news feeds, web pages and other services. Already on August 30, its functionality will be disabled, and on September 30, Yahoo Pipes will be permanently closed.

In addition, the company will close the map service - Yahoo Maps . True, access to the maps will remain in the search engine Yahoo! and in Flickr . By the end of June, it will cease to exist as a separate service. Together with the maps, GeoPlanet and PlaceSpotter services will leave the horizon.

On the Yahoo! blog. It also speaks about some other changes in the company's projects:
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• In the middle of June, Yahoo Music will not be available in France and Canada.
• Yahoo Movies will be closed in Spain.
• In the Philippines, Yahoo! will not be available. Instead, they are organizing a redirect to the Singapore Yahoo home page ... In July, Yahoo Entertainment will be closed in Singapore.
• At the end of June, Yahoo TV will cease to operate in Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and Canada.
• Yahoo Autos will stop working in Britain, France, Germany, Spain and Italy.

Some applications for Apple will also be closed:

• From June 15, Yahoo Mail applications for iOS 4 and will no longer be supported
• Also from June 15, Yahoo Contacts for Mac with OS version lower than OS X 10.8 will close.

The company explains the closing of projects by changing the development strategy. The fact is that Yahoo! intends to focus on three main areas: search, digital content and communications. In this regard, the company is optimizing costs and freeing up additional resources, reports Techcrunch.

May 18 edition of The Wall Street Journal it became known that CIO Yahoo! and vice president of infrastructure, Mike Cale, left the company in less than a year. A week before, Kevin Gentzel had been relieved of his post as head of sales.

And on May 19, Yahoo! fell in price by 7.6%.