In an official blog post, Jay Rossiter, Yahoo Senior Vice President of Platforms, announced that Yahoo is set to pull the plug on 12 of their services within the coming months in order for the company to “continue to focus on creating beautiful products that are essential to [customers] every day.”
To date, Yahoo has already managed to shut down Yahoo! Axis, Yahoo! Broswer Plus, Citizen Sports, and Yahoo! WebPlayer. Rossiter has provided the following shut-down dates for the eight remaining services:
|
Service |
Shut-down Date |
| FoxyTunes | July 1, 2013 |
| Yahoo! RSS Alerts | |
| Yahoo! Neighbors Beta | July 8, 2013 |
| AltaVista | |
| Yahoo! Stars India | July 25, 2013 |
| Yahoo! Downloads Beta | July 31, 2013 |
| Yahoo! Local API | September 28, 2013 |
| Yahoo! Term Extraction API |
For closure details on each service, head over to the Rossiter’s official announcement on the Yahoo blog.