• Yahoo to Shut Down Briefcase Service

    Yahoo to Shut Down Briefcase Service

    Techtree News Staff, Feb 03, 2009 1337 hrs IST

    The company has cited low usage and popularity of the service when compared to its other services like Flickr and Mail as reasons for pulling the plug

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Yahoo, as a part of trimming down excess baggage, has decided to shut down its 10-year-old online storage program -- the Yahoo Briefcase.

The company has cited low usage and popularity of the service when compared to its other services like Flickr and Mail as reasons for pulling the plug.

Users have been provided a March 30 deadline to retrieve their data stored online. Yahoo adds that discontinuing the service will allow them to focus their efforts on more broadly used products.

This comes days after new Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz took charge and is on a mission to save the Internet giant with a series of tough measures that included even more lay-offs, pay cuts and salary freezes.

Those of you who still use the service might as well save all your files back to your PCs before the March 30 deadline - lest you lose your data permanently.

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(2) Comments
nas
,klang, on Feb 09, 2009 11:29 AM
why? this yahoo briefcase is so usefull to us,,,.. \pls dont shut it down...
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NTH
,New Delhi, on Feb 03, 2009 02:04 PM
While the world has started providing online backups (for instance, Google's Gdrive etc), Yahoo is discontinuing a service which could have made a lot of difference, considering that its a very old service. If promoted properly, yahoo could have used it to increase their user base by providing improvements. Weird plans of yahoo I'd say.
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