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Yahoo kills a dozen more products to sharpen its focus |
June 29, 2013
Yahoo is slimming itself down again by axing 12 of its products, part of an ongoing effort to sharpen its focus on services it thinks people need in their daily lives.
The list includes AltaVista, the granddaddy of search engines, and Yahoo RSS Alerts. The other products, including Yahoo Axis, Citizen Sports and Yahoo Browser Plus, are less well known.
“Today we’re shutting down a few products so we can continue to focus on creating beautiful products that are essential to you every day,” said Jay Rossiter, executive vice president of platforms at Yahoo, in a blog post Friday afternoon.
Yahoo ditched numerous other products in April, such as Deals and SMS Alerts, touting similar goals around “sharpening our focus.”
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