Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Yahoo announced that GeoCities, one of the earliest build-your-own-Web-page sites, has stopped accepting new residents and will shut down entirely later this year.
mosloadposition jake}Way back in 1995, GeoCities offered Web visitors the then-novel opportunity to set up their own Web page for fee.
By 1997, GeoCities was the fifth most popular site on the Web, according to Wikipedia, and had a million "residents."
Yahoo bought the property in 1999 for US$3.75 billion and attempted to generate revenue from the site by putting ads on the pages, limited the bandwidth of free accounts, and took other actions that reduced the site's popularity.
At the same time, building a personal Web site has become easier and hosting one much cheaper than it was in 1995, reducing the need for a site like GeoCities.
Bowing to that reality, Yahoo announced on its Help pages that "We have decided to discontinue the process of allowing new customers to sign up for GeoCities accounts as we focus on helping our customers explore and build new relationships online in other ways. We will be closing GeoCities later this year."
Existing GeoCities users are encouraged to migrate their pages to Yahoo's (paid) Web Hosting service.
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