Yahoo China to end email service: reports
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | April 19, 2013 21:15Yahoo’s China arm will shut down its email service later this year, state media reported Friday, in a move illustrating the brand’s diminishing profile in the country.
Yahoo China announced it will close its email service by August 19, a move the China Daily said will leave it with just its web portal business in the country.
Users of the service were informed that they must register with AliCloud, a unit of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, to prevent emails and other information from being deleted when Yahoo’s mail service stops.
Yahoo China has been operated by Alibaba since 2005, the paper said.
The US Internet giant Yahoo! has come under criticism in the past over its business in China, with executives apologising in 2007 for providing evidence that Chinese authorities used to convict government critics.
Users of China’s Twitter-like microblogs expressed anger at the news.
A post under the name “Lisa’s paw” said: “How can they do this? All of sudden Yahoo mail can’t be logged onto and everything was moved to AliCloud. Did you ask for users’ opinions?”
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