Yahoo spinoff brings an end to a pioneering era

By deciding to shed its Internet business, Yahoo is moving to take on a different business focus amid a rapidly changing online landscape.
The move heralds the end of an era for a onetime Internet pioneer.
"As an industry, this signifies the end of the static Web," said Patrick Moorhead, an analyst with Moor Insights & Strategy. "Yahoo popularized categories and directories, which was then replaced by search, which is being replaced by mobile. Yahoo completely missed search and entered mobi