Yahoo is pulling its services out of China, citing an ‘increasingly challenging operating environment.’
This move makes Yahoo the second major American organization to exit the Chinese market in recent weeks, following a similar move by
Microsoft’s LinkedIn in October.
As Yahoo has already been undergoing a dramatic down-scale in China, announcing a
total withdrawal is more of a symbolic move, signifying that the decision is final.
Yahoo had already shut its Beijing offices since 2015 and stopped offering music streaming and email services in China almost a decade ago.
With this news, starting on November 1, Internet users from mainland China are now barred from accessing any of Yahoo’s services.
This shutting down of services in China includes the Yahoo news portals, the Internet search engine, the ‘MyYahoo’ web portal, the advertising platform, and the tech sites Engadget and TechCrunch, which are part of Yahoo.
