Yahoo! 7 closes other services. Marissa Mayer: "Our problem? Attracting users on our pages »

Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo!

Yahoo! announced this morning, from the pages ofthe company's blog , soon there will be major changes to the product line offered to users. Marissa Mayer, the company's CEO and former Google employee , seems to have imported the "tradition" ofspring cleaning , used by the company of Larry Page to close at the beginning of each spring products that pull less.

The goal is to better focus the company on a restricted line of products related to the core business rather than keeping an active galaxy differentiated services to an average of little use. In recent years, Yahoo!, prominent name and symbol of the history of the network, is often found in troubled waters.

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After a slow decline and the recent embarrassment onqualifications retouched former CEO Scott Thompson, made ​​off in haste by the company, the parties to Yahoo! want to change gears by focusing only on a few essential items. At least, this would be the way that everyone hopes. Since the boom of the early 2000s, when the shares were traveling about $ 108, the company has lost more than 78% of its value.Today the shares are traded on the Nasdaq around 22 dollars. Online advertising collapsed. Devoured by Google. During an interview a few weeks ago Marissa Mayer stated: "we are making all possible efforts. The problem is only one. Attracting users on our pages. " And you think a little.

The services will be suspended are Yhaoo! Avatars app for BlackBerry, Clues, App Search, Yahoo! Sports IQ, Yahoo! Message Board, Yahoo! Updates API. All possible efforts will henceforth be invested only in core services including the Yahoo! portal, Yahoo! Mail and Flickr, that the latter had a new sprint after a long period of neglect. From the press release circulated today you can imagine, however, that cleaning does not end here. "We encourage our users to ask their questions on Yahoo! Answers and discuss the news on Yahoo! News." Which translated means alone, let us see if it is still worthwhile to keep them standing. The closures will take effect from April 1 for all the products mentioned, except for Bees Updates will be permanently closed on April 16.