Monday, August 19, 2013

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Yahoo closed the postal service in China

Yahoo closed the postal service in China

 Today, Yahoo closed its online mail service for users in China. The site Yahoo Mail China said that the closure of the service was announced in advance and users had to have time until August 19 to complete the transfer of the boxes on the other services. After closing the mailer, for Chinese users, Yahoo remains the only business portal with information. It is reported that users of the service have been informed that they are invited to register in the system AliCloud and move back their mail data and text messages. Recall that the unit Yahoo China Internet holding company controlled by Alibaba in 2005.

American Internet company Yahoo got in 2005 under the hard light of Western critics and activists after the Chinese authorities issued the data on the local political activist, leading to the arrest of the latter. After that, the company had to justify to the Western community and bring a public apology to the family was arrested. Speaking about closing the postal system, Yahoo announced that support for the mailer in the current technological organization of the company was not possible.

In addition, the company acknowledged that since 2005 the number of people the Chinese version of Yahoo Mail declined significantly and many users have long switched to the alternate e-mail system, in particular on the same system of Alibaba.

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