![]() ![]() Yahoo's latest statement echoes Microsoft's complaint in October that it faced an increasingly "challenging operating environment and greater compliance requirements". Its presence in the country has shrunk in recent years, with Yahoo shutting down its Chinese mail service in 2013. ![]() Yahoo China was launched in 1999, when the company was among the world's most important internet firms. Reports in 2018 of a plan by Google executives to explore reopening a site in China sparked a backlash from rights groups and Google employees warning that a censored search engine would set a "dangerous precedent". Google shut down its search engine in China in 2010, refusing Beijing's requirement to censor search results. We thank our users for their support."įoreign tech companies have long walked a tightrope in China, forced to comply with strict local laws and government censorship of content. "Yahoo remains committed to the rights of our users and a free and open internet. ![]() "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," Yahoo said in a statement emailed to AFP. The push has seen a number of US-based companies withdraw major products from China in recent weeks, with Microsoft in October announcing the closure of its career-oriented social network LinkedIn.
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