Yahoo wants bigger slice of tech pie, less emphasis on media products

Yahoo is beefing up technology offerings and streamlining its media products in another sign it wants to improve its game against industry titans like Google, Apple and Facebook. It is putting the axe to more than a half dozen of its less popular products as CEO Marissa Mayer, a former Google engineer who worked her way up to a vice president post, remakes the company known as a hip Web portal into a more competitive player across the spectrum. The company said Friday most of the products it is dumping will either shut down April 1 or not be supported after that date. Yahoo said in a blog post that affected products include Yahoo Avatars, Yahoo app for BlackBerry, Yahoo Clues (beta), Yahoo App Search, Yahoo Sports IQ, Yahoo Message Boards website, and Yahoo Updates API. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here