Yahoo Messenger shutting down, new messaging app Yahoo Squirrel is in beta

Re:Yahoo Messenger shutting down, new messaging app Yahoo Sq... by kumarvvr on Friday June 08, 2018 @09:57AM (#17265386)

Who uses Yahoo still? Genuinely curious. I thought it was dead.

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Re:Yahoo Messenger shutting down, new messaging app Yahoo Sq... by joecool1029 on Friday June 08, 2018 @10:10AM (#17265529)

Oil traders apparently.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-oil-traders-yahoo/bytes-a...

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Re:Yahoo Messenger shutting down, new messaging app Yahoo Sq... by hermitdev on Friday June 08, 2018 @11:28AM (#17266383)

I think it's traders in general. I know it's used by US equities traders. I think it was referenced as being used in the LIBOR manipulation scandal, as well.

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Re:Yahoo Messenger shutting down, new messaging app Yahoo Sq... by S3raph on Friday June 08, 2018 @10:35AM (#17265795)

in general commodity traders (power, gas, oil...)

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Re:Yahoo Messenger shutting down, new messaging app Yahoo Sq... by finolex1 on Friday June 08, 2018 @10:27AM (#17265711)

Yahoo Finance and Sports are still very popular around the globe, and Yahoo Japan is among the top few websites visited in the country.

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Re:Yahoo Messenger shutting down, new messaging app Yahoo Sq... by cydonian_monk on Friday June 08, 2018 @10:03AM (#17265463)

There are still a few Yahoo! Groups I'm a part of that are resistent to moving on to greener pastures (such as Groups.io). That and Flickr (which will be free of Yahoo! soon enough) are the only two reasons I still have an account.

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Re:Yahoo Messenger shutting down, new messaging app Yahoo Sq... by strictnein on Friday June 08, 2018 @11:10AM (#17266192)

I've had my Yahoo mail account forever and I still use it. It's my public facing email account, which will receive very few important things, and no one I actually know uses it to contact me.

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Re:Yahoo Messenger shutting down, new messaging app Yahoo Sq... by FiatLuxDave on Friday June 08, 2018 @11:07AM (#17266154)

I still use Yahoo mail. Happy user since 1990something. I use gmail as well, but I consider it inferior. They both have problems, but at least Yahoo mail's problems are consistent.

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Re:Yahoo Messenger shutting down, new messaging app Yahoo Sq... by joeyoung on Friday June 08, 2018 @10:34AM (#17265792)

Yahoo Auction is also still very popular in Japan.

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