NEWS FROM YAHOO! CENTRE...... 

After launching a new messaging app , Yahoo is all set to retire its 18-year old Messenger application on August 5. Those who are still using the old Messenger app will not to be able to access their chats after that.

"While today we provide basic interoperation between the legacy product and the new Messenger, we encourage all of our users to complete their transition to the new Yahoo Messenger as we will no longer support the legacy platform as of August 5, 2016," said Chief Architect Amotz Maimon in a post .

Yahoo will concentrate on seven core products: Mail, Search, tumblr, News, Sports, Finance and Lifestyles.

"To streamline and simplify products for our publisher community, we are discontinuing Yahoo Recommends on September 1, 2016," 

Last year in December, Yahoo had launched its new Messenger app for Android, iOS, and the web.

The new app integrates features from Yahoo-owned Flickr, Tumblr and Xobni. It allows users to quickly share large batches of high-resolution images, and taps into the library at blogging platform Tumblr to let people add animated GIFs to conversations as easily as inserting emojis.