Yahoo to shut Yahoo 360

June 4, 2009 · Filed Under News by Purnima·

One of the popular Yahoo service, Yahoo 360 is now finally officially closing on July 13. According to the earlier reports, Yahoo! was contemplating to shut the service last year itself, however it never happened. The announcement came at the official blog of Yahoo!

The blog post says, “Over the past two years there has been a lot of discussion about the closure of Yahoo! 360° and the transition to our new profiles experience that we’ve had in the works. Today, we’re able to firmly say that on July 13, 2009 Yahoo! 360° will be closing down and you’ll be asked to move into your new profile on Yahoo!, by July 12, 2009.”

Launched in March 2005, Yahoo 360 was the social network/blogging service from Yahoo!, the second largest search engine company after Google.

Unlike many other contemporaries, this service from Yahoo! couldn’t gain much popularity. Yahoo 360 had 13.9 million worldwide unique visitors in April, however.

A couple of years earlier, in October 2007, Yahoo! announced its plans to shut the service. However in April 2008, the company reiterated the plan.

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