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The doomed products include Yahoo's BlackBerry app and Sports IQ. The BlackBerry app will still be available to users who have already downloaded it, but support for it will cease. The Yahoo Message Boards website is also set for shuttering, although users will still be able to access message boards for individual properties such as Yahoo Sports and Yahoo Finance. Yahoo avatars will no longer be supported either, while the Yahoo Clues beta product, Yahoo App Search and Yahoo Updates API round out the list of casualties.
All the changes take effect April 1, except for the Yahoo Updates API, which will stick around until April 16.
"Ultimately, we’re making these changes in an effort to sharpen our focus," Jay Rossiter, Yahoo's executive vice president for platforms, wrote in the blog post announcing the changes. "By continuing to hone in on our core products and experiences, we’ll be able to make our existing products the very best they can be."
While not extremely significant by any stretch, the cuts are the latest change to the company since Marissa Mayer was hired as CEO in July.
The most dramatic of those changes, of course, came in late February, when Mayer announced that Yahoo employees would no longer be allowed to work from home. That surprise decision sparked a fierce debate in the tech world. Yahoo later responded to criticism but it's remained a central topic of conversation since.
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