Yahoo will shut down its maps service Yahoo Maps by the end of this month, reports TechCrunch. Along with it, it will also shutter Yahoo Pipes, an online aggregating and web data filter UI which could be used without knowing programming languages (something similar to IFTTT), GeoPlanet, PlaceSpotter APIs and some regional verticals. Yahoo said that this move was to “help Yahoo focus on its core Yahoo product experiences”. In its Tumblr post, Yahoo said that it will focus on its key product verticals of search, communications and digital content and would its products and services to have “a clear purpose”, also to make sure that its “resources are spent smartly”. A VentureBeat report stated that at the end of 2014, Yahoo had closed over 60 products and services in the last two years to narrow its focus, however an updated number was not provided. For Pipes, the company wrote in its blog that by August 30 this year, users would no longer be able to create new Pipes. The infrastructure will run in a read-only mode till the end of September. Yahoo will shutter support for: - Yahoo Mail on devices running iOS5 and lower (built in Mail app) by 15 June. Users will be able to use Yahoo Mail on such devices on the Safari browser through mail.yahoo.com - Sync support for Yahoo Contacts on Macs running Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) by 15 June, with access to Yahoo Contacts through Yahoo Mail on web browsers for…
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