"It was unkind irony that just as MySpace was reshuffling its leadership with the hope of reviving its fortunes, Yahoo quietly announced the end of GeoCities," says GigaOm's Kevin Kelleher. Indeed, ...

Yahoo has announced that it plans to shut down free web-hosting service GeoCities, which it acquired for $3.6 billion a decade ago. My first response to the news was, “Wait, GeoCities is still around?

MySpace may have taken the world by storm with its 80 million registered users, but it's still a blip on the News Corp. balance sheet, says Henry Blodget. Sure, the social network's growth is amazing- ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc is shutting down GeoCities, a free service that hosts personal home pages for consumers, which it acquired for more than $4 billion 10 years ago during the heyday ...