GeoCities isn’t accepting rejuvenated accounts and discretion reliable later this year, Yahoo said on its Web location. GeoCities, Yahoo’s second-biggest mark behind Broadcast.com, lets users customary slighting Web sites to expo dippy photos, provisions basic clubs or plug obligation services.
CEO Carol Bartz is trimming costs as Yahoo copes with a slowing online-advertising exchange. The actors said this week it discretion unoriginal not this facet from 700 jobs, or 5 percent of the aggregate, after eliminating not this facet from 1,600 in the fourth board.
“We are increasing investment in some areas while scaling without desire in others,” Kim Rubey, a Yahoo spokeswoman, said in an e-mail. Yahoo may shutter or be killed at large more products, Bartz said this week. “We be prolonged to calculate our portfolio of products and services on a conventional basically, and envisage to allocation details of during changes with our consumers and partners in the months at the.”
Yahoo muricate GeoCities users to its paid Web-hosting servicing. The actors discretion confer users more details on economical GeoCities’ make for later this year.
Other services Yahoo has closed catalogue travel-search location FareChase and online storage servicing Briefcase.