"With Messenger's end , the oil industry has to deal with a fragmented communication market , which some say will force players back to the telephone. "You have no idea how much I'll miss Yahoo Messenger," said a senior oil trader in SINGAPORE who has been in the business for 20 years. I have Yahoo friends I have never met, but with whom I spent many hours bantering and joking. But Yahoo's beauty was that everybody used one platform," said one Asian fuel broker. "I built up hundreds of contacts on it over more than a decade.

Source: Economic Times August 05, 2016 13:52 UTC