Yahoo! rolled out new versions of its popular Web e-mail yesterday, the first major product make-over since Chief Executive Marissa Mayer took the helm of the struggling Internet company five months ago.
Yahoo! released new versions of its Yahoo! Mail product for smartphones and tablets — in keeping with Mayer’s focus on mobile devices — and a revamped version of its Web-based mail product for PC users.
The new PC version of Yahoo! Mail features fewer ads, primarily by doing away with pass-through Web pages that users previously encountered before they could access their inbox and which also appeared after a user sent an e-mail.
As part of yesterday’s makeover announcement, Yahoo! also unveiled an update to its mobile e-mail app for smartphones that are based on the Android operating system, as well as Yahoo!’s first stand-alone app for the iPhone from apple.
Yahoo! closed yesterday at $19.52, up 0.5 percent.