Yahoo Inc. stops its services in China w.e.f November 01
- Yahoo Inc. has announced that the company has stopped providing service in mainland China with effect from November 01, 2021 due to the increasingly challenging business and legal environment in the country.
- With this Yahoo has ended its 22-year presence in the Chinese market.
- This means that services like Yahoo Weather, Yahoo Finance, and other websites run by Yahoo such as AOL.com, TechCrunch and Engadget will not be accessible from within China.
- Earlier, US tech platform LinkedIn also annoced the closure of its localized social media network in China on October 14.