Yahoo Sunsets Yahoo Pipes, Along With Yahoo Maps And More

Yahoo is closing many of its subsidiaries, might as well take down the international media ambitions that it had.

Before the times we had tools like those of IFTTT, which helped the users to mash up the data coming from web services and also the other content in different ways, there had been Yahoo Pipes which is an online visual interface that lets the users filter and aggregate the web data without you being knowledgeable about the programming skills.

However, now Yahoo Pipes is going to be laid to rest. Latest Yahoo news reports that the service shall close down, along with others such as GeoPlanet, Yahoo Maps and PlaceSpotter APIs and also the regional offerings and more. This had been announced last week on the company’s blog, which describes that the tech giant wants to focus the resources on the products which are in areas of communications, digital content and search.

In order to make that happen, the company will end the support for some of the services which were on older platforms. For instance, Yahoo Mail shall no longer be working in built in Mail app from iOS on the devices priot to iOS 5 beginning from June 15^th. Also, Yahoo Contact sync shall not work on Macs that are earlier than Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.

In any and both of these cases, users shall be redirected to the web browser. Furthermore, Yahoo news reports that the Yahoo Maps will be shutting at the end of this month. However, the maps will be continued for the support in terms of Flickr and Yahoo Search. The developers that are using PlaceSpotter and GeoPlanet APIs shall be asked to use BOSS and Yahoo Query Language which is also known as YQL, the older APIs will be retiring in Q3.

There are numerous regional properties that are going to be closed in June and July as per the company reports. This will include Yahoo Movies in Spain, Yahoo Music in Canada and France, homepage of Yahoo Philippines and also the genre specific media sites such as that of Yahoo TV in England, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and also in Canada.

Yahoo Autos will be closing in France, Germany, UK, Italy and Spain. The company states that the content from all of these sites will be be “redistributed across the Yahoo network.” The changes like these signify that this is more of ending international media ambitions that the company had and also some of the same media property shutdowns back in 2014.

The Pipes creation shall not be supported till August 30, 2015, Yahoo reports. The infrastructure of Pipes will be running until September 30, 2015 in the mode of read-only one so that the data migration can be done by the developers.

Yahoo Tries To Acquire Flipboard

Yahoo is interested in acquiring a news-launching platform, Flipboard.

Yahoo is interested in acquiring a news-launching platform. Yahoo news reported that the company is holding talks to purchase the mobile news-reading application, Flipboard.

The negotiations are being carried out with the pioneers of the Flipboard. The high-tech system is basically designed to gather news from publishers and social network sources. Yahoo news today informed that the product is capable of working like a digital magazine, as it demonstrates each and every element through an interface. The management of the company believes that the acquisition of the application would help it lure more users towards it with its interesting content.

Experts presented their view that the experience of the team of the application-development organization has played a significant role in attracting Yahoo’s chief executive officer, Marissa Mayer. The Flipboard CEO, Mike McCue, and cofounder, Evan Doll, are also well known.

Mr. McCue has successfully pioneered a voice identification setup, while Mr. Doll has served as a software engineer at Apple. The CEO’s services were also employed by Twitter. Company sources have highlighted that some internal tensions forced him to resign from the board of the social networking service.

Yahoo Breaking news affirmed that the talks with the creators failed, as both the parties were unable to jointly decide a price. The search engine service provider is not the only business interested in buying the product, as others have also tried to purchase it, such as Google and Twitter. The chief financial officer, Anthony Noto, is negotiating on behalf of Twitter and has been talking since the start of this year. Like Yahoo, the company has also failed to finalize a deal with the counterpart.

The management of Twitter is also impressed by news posting ability of the modern digital system. It is expected that if the news reading application is acquired by the microblogging platform, then the value of Flipboard would exceed $1,000,000,000.

Media sources have disclosed that the highly demanded organization, Flipboard, has grown quite rapidly after being established in the later part of 2010 and has been able to attract more than 60,000,000 users. It is expected that if the talks between the internet giant and company succeed, then Yahoo’s customers would be permitted to easily access online content.

A number of businesses and corporate giants have previously taken steps to launch news through their platforms. One of those is Facebook. The management of Yahoo should now take steps to satisfy Flipboard’s developer, or any other entity would acquire it.