Yahoo says today that it will close several online services on April 30.

Summary: According to Bloomberg, Yahoo posted a blog today that the company will close several online services on April 30, including the coupon website Yahoo! Deals, local active calendar upcoming, SMS update Service, legacy mailbox, and communications applications. CEO Marisa Mayer (Marissa M

According to Bloomberg, Yahoo posted today that it will close several online services on April 30, including the coupon website Yahoo! Deals, local active calendar upcoming, SMS update Service, legacy mailbox, and communications applications. CEO Marissa (Marissa Mayer) is focusing on mobile-device applications.

In February, Ms. Mayer said at an investor conference that the company wanted to cut 60 to 70 products to around 12 to provide popular mobile apps. "Withdrawing resources from unwanted legacy products will allow Yahoo to devote more of its resources to core products such as mailbox and weather mobile apps," said Jay Rossiter, executive vice president of Yahoo platform operations, Jes Rost today.

"We know that it's not easy to change, but by making tough decisions like this, we can focus on creating good products," Rooster said in a blog post. ”

Earlier this week, Yahoo launched a tablet-oriented email application and a weather-forecast smartphone app. This mailbox application management and classification is very convenient.

In the first quarter, the company's monthly mobile subscribers grew from 200 million at the end of last year to more than 300 million. A Yahoo spokeswoman wrote in an email earlier this week that the increase in user volume stems from the investment in mobile applications such as Flickr for picture sharing and the trend towards mobile devices.

March, Yahoo said it will close a variety of products, including a BlackBerry device applications, yahoo application search and Yahoo message.