Oath Inc
today announced that it is shutting down the once popular Yahoo Messenger come
July 17th 2018. The service was once a very popular instant messaging apps
back
in the days, before the coming of WhatsApp, Viber, Facebook, Twitter and many
others. The company says while it may be shutting the service down, your Yahoo
ID remains intact for other services like Mail and fantasy sports.
Before now,
Oath had also shut down AIM’s AOL Instant messenger back in December last year.
Although the company gave no reason for the action, but it can be far from the
dominance pose by the likes of WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and other chat
service.
The company
has been testing its new chat service call Squirrel for months. It is believed
that this may be used to replace Yahoo messenger.
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