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July 25th, 2008 by Greg Sterling According to an internal AOL memo from EVP Kevin Conroy, among a range of cost-saving measures and cuts, the company is going to “sunset” its fledgling mobile client (similar to Yahoo! Go) “MyMobile.” From the text of the memo: We have decided to halt further investment in AIMWorld and will sunset MyMobile next year in order to focus on our core revenue producing products (ie, mail, messaging, portal and mapping). Along with these core products we will focus on developing for key devices like the iPhone and the Blackberry. We will also leverage open services through OpenMobile to engage third party mobile developers in order to create new applications and experiences, which will expand distribution without additional internal development costs. This isn’t necessarily a blow to AOL’s mobile... [read full story]
