雅虎爲削減成本徹底關閉在華機構

BEIJing — Yahoo Inc. is closing its Beijing research and development center and leaving China in a new cost-cutting move.

北京——作爲削減成本的新措施，雅虎公司將關閉其在北京的研發中心，全面撤出中國。

The company said Thursday the Beijing office's functions would be consolidated in other locations. It gave no details of how many people would lose their jobs but said they would be "treated with respect and fairness."

公司週四表示，北京辦事處的職能將轉移到其他地方及部門。公司對有多少人將失去工作沒有提供細節，但表示這些人將“得到有尊嚴及公平的對待”。

The Sunnyvale, California-based company has cut jobs elsewhere in a sweeping corporate overhaul as it tries to catch up with Internet users who have shifted to using smartphones and tablets instead of laptop and desktop computers.

這家總部位於加利福尼亞州森尼維爾的公司正在進行大規模企業整改，已經在其他地方裁掉大批員工，公司試圖追趕互聯網用戶上網方式的改變，許多用戶已轉向使用智能手機和平板電腦上網，而不是筆記本電腦和臺式電腦。

Yahoo turned over control of its China operations to its partner Alibaba Group in 2005 as part of a corporate tie-up. Yahoo stopped offering services in China in 2013.

作爲企業結盟的一部分，雅虎曾在2005年將自己中國業務的控制權移交給其合作伙伴阿里巴巴集團。雅虎於2013年停止了向中國提供服務。

Yahoo's profit for the quarter ending in December fell 52 percent from a year earlier while revenue dipped 1 percent.

雅虎的利潤在截止去年12月的上個季度與去年同期相比下降了52％，營業收入下降了1％。