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Yahoo makes final China exit on November 1st.Yahoo makes final China exit on November 1st.

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By:David A.Howard
Yahoo, which launched its Chinese internet operations in 1999, stopped all its remaining online services in the mainland on Monday, marking its final retreat from the country.

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The Sunnyvale, California-based firm said its “suite of services will no longer be accessible” in the country, according to a statement posted on its website over the weekend. It added that “Yahoo products and services remain unaffected in all other global locations”, without elaborating on the reasons behind its latest exit.

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Still, some Yahoo services – including a range of news articles in foreign languages – remained accessible in the mainland as of the end of October. The number of remaining Yahoo users in the country is unknown, although is generally considered to be small, compared with those on various Chinese online platforms that dominate the world’s biggest internet market.

 

As of Monday, Yahoo’s Weather app, news pages and the Chinese version of consumer tech blog Engadget were unavailable. The Chinese Engadget website only displays Yahoo’s announcement on no longer providing content in the country.

 

Mainland users can still access Yahoo Mail, AOL Mail and privacy dashboard to download their data from three given web addresses, according to Yahoo’s announcement.

*Source from SCMP

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