Yahoo has announced that it will shut services such as Yahoo
Games, LiveText and Boss. The move comes after the California-based company
revealed last month that it will focus only on core segments in an attempt to
restructure the firm.
"After a careful
evaluation... as part of our efforts to focus on select areas, the Yahoo Games
site and publishing channel will be discontinued as of Friday, May 13,
2016," said Amotz Maimon, chief architect and lead of Tech Council at
Yahoo, while sharing the company's Q1 progress report.
Apart from Yahoo Games,
it plans to bury LiveText by the end of this month and Yahoo regional media
properties in the coming weeks. "LiveText allowed us to experiment with
new user experiences and features to drive innovations in our products. We plan
to incorporate the learnings and features into Yahoo products including Yahoo
Messenger, our core messaging platform," Maimon said on Tumbler.
Yahoo Games was launched in 1998 post the
acquisition of Classic Games a year earlier. It was one of its oldest known
properties. In another move, the company has launched an e-sport portal for
gamers, which is part of Yahoo Sports.
Since it announced its
restructuring, the internet giant has announced a slew of closures that
included Yahoo Food, Yahoo Health, Yahoo Parenting, Yahoo Makers, Yahoo Travel,
Yahoo Autos and Yahoo Real Estate.
In February, CEO Marissa Mayer had made the company's plans public, where she
said that Yahoo would embark on a
transformation journey to
return to modest and accelerating growth by 2018. Accordingly, the internet
portal planned to simplify its product portfolio to only three platforms namely
Search, Mail and Tumblr, in select segments like news, sports, finance and
lifestyle
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