Yahoo shutting down Maps, other services to focus on search, digital contents

Tech News - Yahoo's search and other services including photo-sharing website Flickr will still support Yahoo Maps, Maimon said. These steps follow efforts by Chief Executive Marissa Mayer to revive meaningful revenue growth with a string of acquisitions and product revamps.

Mayer has been under pressure to make quicker progress in strengthening the company's media and advertising business. Yahoo is scaling back mail support on the built-in Mail app for older versions of Apple Inc's iPhone operating system, Maimon said on Thursday.

Yahoo said the Philippines homepage would be shuttered. It will also close Yahoo Music services in France and Canada and Yahoo Movies in Spain. Media services such as Yahoo TV and Yahoo Autos will be stopped in the UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy at the end of June.

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No decision on getting Facebook, Twitter servers to India: Government

Tech News - "The government has not decided to get servers of popular social networking sites, like hike, Facebook, Twitter etc established within the country," Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said in a written reply to Lok Sabha.
  
He, however, said the government regularly interacts with all stakeholders including social media providers to resolve the issues arising from time to time, related to handling of unlawful content on the internet.

The Minister said security agencies face difficulty while dealing with encrypted communications provided by various service providers.
  
World over several service providers are providing services like WhatsApp, Viber, WeChat, Skype, Yahoo, Gmail for sharing audio, video, image, email, data and accessing other web services anytime and anywhere in a secure manner, Prasad said.
  
He added the security of these services is achieved through encryption technology and these services are mostly availed by the citizens across the world through internet.
  
"At times these services may also used by anti-national and criminal elements, which pose a security threat," the Minister said.
  
Prasad added the government has mandated all the telecom service providers including internet service providers to provide the lawful interception and monitoring facilities to the security agencies for all the services including WhatsApp, Viber etc.

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Apple might replace Google with Yahoo or Bing as default search engine

From past five years Google has been the default search provider for Apple’s Safari browser and the partnership is set to discontinue in 2015. Also, reports say that Apple has been trying to distance itself from Google in recent days.

Google's You Tube service no longer comes as a part of iOS and also Google maps has been replaced by Apple's own patented service.

Marking this as an advantage, both Microsoft and Yahoo are trying to get Apple's attention to replace Google from its iOS devices.

Both the tech giants have spoken to Apple's senior vice president of Internet Software and Services Eddy Cue for replacing Google.

A week ago, Mozilla too dumped Google by Yahoo as its default search provider.

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