#Yahoo closes down development projects #Blackberry

Yahoo axes apps in wide-ranging product shutdown – Internet giant confirms seven products to be binned as part of “spring clean”.

Yahoo is ending seven products, including its mobile app for Blackberry smartphones, as if copying from Google’s Playbook by eliminating unsuccessful products (that’s unsuccessful to them, not us of course).

“The most critical question we ask is whether the experience is truly a daily habit that still resonates for all of you today,” wrote Jay Rossiter, Yahoo’s executive vice president of Platforms.

– reduce the 60 to 75 disparate mobile apps it currently has to a more manageable 12 to 15 apps.

app for Blackberry smartphones would no longer be available for download, or supported by Yahoo, as of 1 April.

stop supporting Yahoo Avatars on 1 April.
The cartoon-like digital characters on web services such as Yahoo instant messenger and Facebook
Download the avatar and then re-upload the information to their personalised Yahoo profile.

– products set to be terminated include Yahoo App Search, Yahoo Sports IQ, Yahoo Clues, the Yahoo Message Boards website and the Yahoo Updates API.

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