Yahoo announced that it would shut down the older, legacy version of the software/app, in a bid to transition to the newer version it launched six months ago. Similarly, Telegram, a cloud-based instant messaging service, was launched in 2013. Yahoo Messenger was launched in 1998 as Yahoo Pager. employees, Brian Acton and Jan Koum, launched WhatsApp, a mobile internet-based messaging app, which was later bought by Facebook for $19 billion in 2014. In the case of the Windows Live Messenger, its death was confirmed soon after Microsoft purchased Skype, the popular peer-to-peer internet telephony or VoIP calling software.

Source: Mint June 13, 2016 08:03 UTC