Jun 8, 2018 - Technology

After 20 years, Yahoo Messenger is closing shop

Photo: Karen Bleier/AFP/Getty Images

Yahoo Messenger will be end its service after July 17, Variety reports, 20 years after the first version of the messaging service, Yahoo Pager, was released. Per Variety, users have six months to download chat history.

“We know we have many loyal fans who have used Yahoo Messenger since its beginning as one of the first chat apps of its kind. As the communications landscape continues to change over, we’re focusing on building and introducing new, exciting communications tools that better fit consumer needs.”
— Message from Oath, the Verizon branch that runs Yahoo

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Alexi McCammond
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Cleanup on aisle Biden

Photo: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images

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Why it matters: Biden’s responses reflect what we could see a lot more of in the next few months — cringeworthy comments and Trump smears, smacking into each other and pulling the Democrat off course.

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Hans Nichols, Stef W. Kight
48 mins ago - Politics & Policy

2020 election strategy: Hire all the lawyers

Illustration: Eniola Odetunde/Axios

The coronavirus has sent overall U.S. unemployment into the double digits — but it's a sort of full-employment act for election law attorneys.

The big picture: The prospect of extended court fights over COVID-19-related voting changes, an absentee ballot avalanche, foreign interference and contested presidential results has prompted a hire-all-the-lawyers binge by candidates and campaigns — not just in swing states but around the country.

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Neal Rothschild
1 hour ago - Politics & Policy

Right-wing media defanged by dissolving anti-Biden storylines

Data: NewsWhip; Chart: Naema Ahmed/Axios

The three biggest anti-Joe Biden storylines in right-wing media over the last year have either fizzled or are getting less online traction than they used to, according to data from NewsWhip provided exclusively to Axios.

Why it matters: This dynamic has rendered a formidable media ecosystem less effective in boosting President Trump as we move into the heart of the 2020 campaign.

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