Search-engine company Yahoo Inc. has announced it will jettison a little-used service for finding and rating podcasts, the latest casualty of the Internet company's rejuvenation effort. The podcast section will be silenced Oct. 31, according to a notice posted on Yahoo's Web site, joining several other features that Yahoo has scrapped as it tries to snap out of a financial funk that has depressed its stock price and triggered a reshuffling of top management. Yahoo is expected to dump more services before the overhaul is completed, with its music subscription service frequently mentioned as one of the most likely targets.
According to research firm Hitwise, however, the podcast service won't be missed: of 32 Yahoo-owned properties it monitors, the podcast section was the least trafficked. Yahoo launched the podcast service two years ago in a bid to capitalize on the growing number of people transferring audio files to Apple Inc.'s iPod and other portable media devices, but the feature never attracted much interest.
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