Here’s a fun game to play with colleagues: It’s called “What Should Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Cut Next?” The internet company has been nipping and tucking the past few months, getting rid of its FareChase travel engine and Yahoo Briefcase. Just this week came the news that Yahoo might be shopping around HotJobs and that it’s also shutting down its Jumpcut.com video site effective June 15 as part of its “ongoing prioritization efforts.”
CEO Carol Bartz has said her company isn’t one “that needs to be pulled apart and left for the chickens,” but that doesn’t mean she’s happy with its hodge-podge of services. There are 18 different products in the company’s audience group alone, from Yahoo Finance to Yahoo Food, on top of offerings like Yahoo Mail or Yahoo Answers. In a memo to employees earlier this year, Bartz said she was “assembling a list of products that we are embarrassed about for various reasons so we can make the important decision as to whether we fix them or discontinue them.
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