BEIJING — Yahoo Inc. is closing its Beijing research and development center and leaving China in a new cost-cutting move.
北京——作为削减成本的新措施，雅虎公司将关闭其在北京的研发中心，全面撤出中国。
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."
公司周四表示，北京办事处的职能将转移到其他地方及部门。公司对有多少人将失去工作没有提供细节，但表示这些人将“得到有尊严及公平的对待”。

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.
这家总部位于加利福尼亚州森尼维尔的公司正在进行大规模企业整改，已经在其他地方裁掉大批员工，公司试图追赶互联网用户上网方式的改变，许多用户已转向使用智能手机和平板电脑上网，而不是笔记本电脑和台式电脑。
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.
作为企业结盟的一部分，雅虎曾在2005年将自己中国业务的控制权移交给其合作伙伴阿里巴巴集团。雅虎于2013年停止了向中国提供服务。
Yahoo's profit for the quarter ending in December fell 52 percent from a year earlier while revenue dipped 1 percent.
雅虎的利润在截止去年12月的上个季度与去年同期相比下降了52％，营业收入下降了1％。