Yahoo Shutting Down Yahoo Messenger
American multinational technology company Yahoo Inc. has announced the shutting down of its chat service Yahoo Messenger from August 5 this year.
However, the company has asked all its users to move to the new version of the Messenger, introduced last year.
"In December of 2015, we announced a brand new Yahoo Messenger for mobile, the Web and in Yahoo Mail on the desktop, built on a new modern platform. This complete revamp brings users an incredibly fast, beautiful and smart way to send - and unsend - messages, photos and animated GIFs in 1:1 and group conversations," Yahoo chief architect Amotz Maimon said while explaining the company's move.
"While today we provide basic interoperation between the legacy product and the new Messenger, we encourage all of our users to comple...