Lycos To Not Shut Down Mail and Tripod Services in USA
It was reported yesterday that Lycos will not be shutting down their Mail and Tripod services as reported by Techcrunch and others.
In an article appearing this morning, TechCrunch erroneously reported that Lycos will be closing its Tripod and Lycos Mail services on Feb. 15. The information contained in the blog posting pertains to Lycos Europe products and services and affects Lycos Europe users only.
The closing of these two products by Lycos Europe does not impact Lycos users in the U.S. Lycos, Inc. and Lycos Europe are two completely separate entities and business units. Lycos, Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Daum Communications, Corp., while Lycos Europe is owned by Telefonica. Late last year, Lycos Europe’s parent company announced it would be shutting down its operations and seeking a sale of its remaining assetts.
Lycos Inc. (www.lycos.com) continues to operate social media, publishing and search services including both Tripod and Lycos Mail. Currently, Tripod is the #17 social networking site worldwide (comScore MM Dec. 2008), with millions of member pages hosted, published and visited each month.
3 Comments
Funny, but my USA Lycos account is no longer
accessible all of a sudden. Any ideas, what gives ???
The company won’t respond.
Tripod is stuggling! My site down. The only tech support is 24-72 hour by email. I’m switching web hosts. Buyer beware!