Items tagged with Cost Cutting

by Joshua Gulick - Mon, Mar 04, 2013

Yahoo! Shutters Unprofitable Services Including BlackBerry App, Yahoo! Avatar, Yahoo! Message Boards

With all the excitement surrounding Yahoo! CEO Marissa Meyer’s decision to put the kibosh on remote working, another, possibly more important move has gone largely unnoticed: Yahoo! is trimming several major products as part of its cost-cutting efforts. Among those getting the axe are the Yahoo! for BlackBerry app, the Yahoo! Message Boards website, Yahoo! App Search, Yahoo! Clues, and Yahoo Sports IQ. Yahoo! Avatars is also on the way out. The move to cut Yahoo!’s BlackBerry app is part of an effort to cull unpopular mobile products from the current lineup of more than 60 mobile apps. Yahoo! plans to pull all support for the app and make it unavailable for download on April 1st.... Read more...