Yahoo! to shutter Messenger on feature phones and four other products on April 30

Yahoo! has been on a cleaning spree since last year. After public chatrooms on Messenger, Avatars and its BlackBerry app, products such as Upcoming, Yahoo! Deals, Yahoo! SMS Alerts, Yahoo! Kids, Yahoo! Mail and Messenger feature phone (J2ME) apps and older versions of Yahoo! Mail are getting the axe. The decision to shut down these products is a part of its big plan to focus the company’s energy on building products that can be a part of users’ daily habits. Probably, the company plans to focus more on mobile products like the recently introduced Yahoo! Mail for iPad and Android tablets and Yahoo! Weather for iPad. It plans to kill the older versions of Yahoo! Mail on June 3,2013 while the other mentioned products will be discontinued as on April 30, 2013.