Yahoo leaves mainland China for good citing "challenging" environment

Yahoo leaves mainland China for good citing "challenging" environment

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer speaks during her keynote address at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada in this file photo taken on January 7, 2014. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith

Yahoo said it had stopped allowing its services to be accessible from mainland China “in recognition of the increasingly challenging business and legal environment”, the second Western tech brand to quit the country in recent weeks.

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