jpnn.com, CHINA - Yahoo officially announced its departure from China because the policies implemented by the Beijing government were no longer in line with the principles of a free and open internet.
The company stopped providing content to users in mainland China on Monday (1/11).
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"In recognition of the increasingly challenging business and legal environment in China, Yahoo’s suite of services will no longer be accessible from mainland China as of November 1," said a Yahoo spokesperson.
"Yahoo remains committed to the rights of our users and a free and open internet. We thank our users for their support."
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Yahoo's move followed Microsoft's earlier steps to discontinue LinkedIn's services in China last month.
LinkedIn also argued that the operational environment and compliance requirements in China were more challenging.
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Yahoo has been reducing its services in China gradually over the past few years.
As of last October, the company was still operating a weather app and several pages featuring news articles in foreign languages.
Yahoo entered China in 1998. In 2012, Yahoo reached a deal with Alibaba to sell its stake in the e-commerce giant.
The deal gave Alibaba the right to operate Yahoo China under the Yahoo brand for up to four years.
Yahoo China later closed its e-mail service and web portal but the brand maintained a global research and development center in Beijing until 2015.
Yahoo's departure from the country came as Beijing imposed new restrictions on internet companies in areas from content to customer privacy and new law.
On Monday (1/11), a new personal information protection law designed to protect the privacy of online users' data came into effect in China. (reuters/ant/mcr20/jpnn)
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