Yahoo shuts down Deals, Kids, Upcoming, and more in attempt to focus resources

Traditionally, Yahoo has let failed initiatives wither and die on the vine, but today the company's pulling a Google instead: it's publicly shutting down several projects all at the same time, in order to focus on other efforts. Citing the new Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Weather mobile apps as examples of what the company wants to build instead, Yahoo is shutting down Deals, Yahoo Upcoming (and its API), Yahoo Kids, Yahoo SMS Alerts, and the J2ME feature phone versions of Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Messenger...