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Yahoo Killing Maps, Pipes & More

Posted by samzenpus on from the so-long dept.

alphadogg writes: Yahoo is shutting down its mapping service, Pipes and reducing the availability of Yahoo TV and Yahoo Music. The company has decided instead to focus on three major parts of its business: search, communications, and digital content. "We made this decision to better align resources to Yahoo's priorities as our business has evolved since we first launched Yahoo Maps eight years ago," says the company.

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  1. It's going to be painful... by bobbied · · Score: 2, Interesting

    To watch Yahoo slowly die because they got out classed by all the upstarts in the market.

    Really, they fell prey to the PHB effect before their competitors did. MBA's took over too fast at Yahoo after the founders took their money and ran...

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    1. Re: It's going to be painful... by AvitarX · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Google seems to push relevant parts of its other stuff into the results, rather than overwhelm with it.

      If I search for a place, they show me the map, a news topic, they show me news, etc etc.

      They don't push me to news when it's not relevant.

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  2. Pipes was actually useful by afaiktoit · · Score: 3, Interesting

    its like companies want RSS to die or something.

  3. Re:Women CEO. by Grishnakh · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Oh please. Carly Fiorina was a female CEO too, and look at the great job she did at HP.... oh wait. Now it's run by Meg Whitman... hmm, another bad example.

    Well, there's also GM, run by Mary Barra... maybe that's not such a great example, considering the ignition switch problem.

    Seriously, though, there's a bunch of female CEOs these days, as seen in this list. I can't say, however, that any of these companies are all that great.