Yahoo Closes Down its Email Service in Republic of China

Yahoo closes down its Email service in China, and it's leading users to switch to Alibaba's Alimail.
Yahoo has closed down its Email service in Republic of China, and it has attached a note on its log-in page requesting the users to kindly switch their accounts to Alibaba’s Alimail.

Previously Yahoo had announced that very soon it would shut down the Email service in China, and now the doomsday has finally arrived. Eventually Yahoo has been shutting down its existing services in China since 2005 when it acquired a stake in Alibaba, which is undoubtedly one of the biggest Internet companies of that country.


Earlier in January 2013 Yahoo put an official end to its Chinese music service as an adjustment plan in their product strategy. Yahoo China has added a notice in its email login page, where it said that users with the suffixes @yahoo.cn and @yahoo.com.cn can easily register and transfer all of their important information to a newly-created Alibaba account. The best part is users will continue to receive all of their emails send to their current Yahoo addresses till December 31, 2014.

It has to be mentioned here that in 2005 Yahoo invested a huge $1 billion in order to acquire as much as 40% stake in Alibaba. Gradually Alibaba has emerged a lot and it has even grown into the backbone of burgeoning e-commerce market of the Republic of China.


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Last year in September, Alibaba successfully completed an initial repurchase of its shares from Yahoo by spending $7.6 billion. Currently the Internet pioneer owns 24% stake in the Chinese company. As per early estimations, Yahoo’s shares are likely to go public in the next two years or so. The total value of Yahoo’s stake in Alibaba is estimated to be worth around $14 billion.

The Sunnyvale-based company is trying to ensure a successful footprint in China, and to do that it is spending a hell lot of money. It isn’t solely relying on its earlier investment in Alibaba for sure. Actually it has already acquired Ztelic, which is a Beijing-based startup that collects social network data. Even eight core members of Ztelic’s development and engineering section joined Yahoo’s own R&D team in Beijing.


Mr. Hao Zheng, who is the founder of Ztelic, has been given a very critical leadership role in the company’s Beijing Global R&D Center. 

Source: TechCrunch
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