After a few days ago, a new Yahoo has announced layoffs , are now apparently also offers some of the Internet service provider before Off. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal is currently reviewing services set Yahoo, not the core business of the company belong to. According to the report is affected, inter alia, AltaVista, that before Google was the leading search engine even more. Furthermore, should also All The Web, MyBlogLog and social bookmarking service Delicious currently are on the final list. In addition, some products should be consolidated or merged, including the geolocating Fire Eagle and the event portal Upcoming.

The measures are set out in an internal document that the former Yahoo employees and MyBlogLog founder Eric Marco Ulli has published via Twitter. A Yahoo spokeswoman confirmed the authenticity of the document told the Wall Street Journal. The explanation given that Yahoo would focus on its core businesses and therefore some products that no longer fit the company's strategy or do not achieve sufficient performance, set in the coming months. Details will be announced when this is appropriate. Yahoo had announced a few days ago to lay off about 600 employees, representing about four percent of the total workforce. Of the layoffs affected primarily staff in Yahoo homeland USA. It is the fourth wave of layoffs in the last three years at Yahoo.

These measures are part of the efforts of the Internet service provider, to drive down costs. Yahoo feels despite massive pressure from investors savings. Last boss Carol Bartz had Yahoo streamlining the administrative and business functions, closed unprofitable. In the Internet search and online advertising company also has the alliance with Microsoft . Yahoo and Microsoft had in July 2009 agreed on a cooperation after the Redmond software company with a takeover attempt failed. The agreement of the parties running in 2020.