Private equity could be prepared to offer much more to help snag Twitter away from the outstretched hands of billionaire Elon Musk. A source familiar with the matter tells Yahoo Finance that Apollo Global Management (the parent company of Yahoo Finance) is weighing options to provide financing to potential suitors for a deal to take Twitter private. The private equity powerhouse isn’t planning to buy Twitter outright, the source says. “When you talk about private equity, we think $60 to $65 in… Source link

OnMail, the new email service launched by Edison in 2021, is releasing several updates to help users improve their email experience on iOS, Android, and the web. One key feature is a new account import for all users of OnMail. Previously only available for premium accounts, Account Import is now available for all users. Yahoo!, Gmail, Outlook, iCloud, IMAP, and AOL accounts can be added to OnMail so you can experience the unique features of the app all in one place across all your… Source link

Altaba Inc., successor entity to the former Silicon Valley giant Yahoo Inc., must retain $800 million as it dissolves to cover the maximum damages it could face in connection with a Canadian data breach class action, a Delaware judge ruled. Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster set the amount in a post-trial ruling for Delaware’s Chancery Court, citing Altaba’s agreement to split any data breach damages with Verizon Communications Inc., which later bought and resold the Yahoo business through… Source link

Google has today announced the launch of a product development center in Nairobi, its first in the continent, to build “transformative” products and services for the African market and the world. This comes after the tech giant revealed plans to invest $1 billion over the next five years in October last year. The center is Google’s second major research and development investment in Africa, after the tech giant set up an AI and research center in Ghana in… Source link

Yandex, the Russian online search giant — also running a variety of other digital services — is unlikely to sell its news aggregation service and infotainment platform ‘Zen’ in the foreseeable future. In mid-March, the company was considering such a move, possibly linked to the government’s crackdown on free expression. Amid the war on Ukraine, a new law had banned what the authorities consider to be “false” information or just inadequate wording about the… Source link

Retail, real estate and hospitality are some of the industries which will encounter big opportunities for expansion in the metaverse, says one industry expert. “At the heart of what the metaverse stands for — it makes the internet more conversational,” Kunal Lunawat co-founder and managing partner at Agya Ventures, a real estate tech focused fund, told Yahoo Finance. Lunawat envisions the next version of the internet, or metaverse, will give retail brands the opportunity to create a… Source link

The regular season is less than two weeks old, but fantasy trade talks are already flying fast and furious in Yahoo! leagues. Here are some of my best tips for making April deals. You don’t need to wait I have never been able to relate to the manager who says that they need to watch at least one month of regular-season action before considering trades. Let’s be honest: If you had drawn a different draft slot, you would have drafted different players, especially in the early rounds. For… Source link

Last week, TechCrunch first spotted the long-rumored “Switch to Android” app for iOS users had been quietly published on the App Store. The app helps users to migrate important content — like contacts, calendars, photos, and videos — from an iPhone to a new Android device. But while the app was technically live, it wasn’t yet “officially” available to App Store users via search or discovery mechanisms. Now, that’s changing, Google says. On Monday evening around 6 PM PT,… Source link

Three things Terez Paylor loved in the football world: the NFL draft, impact defensive players and the Michigan Wolverines. All of which would have put the eighth annual All-Juice Team squarely into his wheelhouse. Not only could the University of Michigan see defensive end Aidan Hutchinson become the school’s second No. 1 overall pick of the Super Bowl era (joining Jake Long in 2008), but the draft’s top four picks could all be defenders. The 2022 selection process is also expected to be… Source link

Vagit Alekperov, president of Russian oil company Lukoil.Sefa Karacan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Putin signed a new decree on April 16 that requires Russian companies to remove their listings from overseas exchanges. Now, billionaires won’t be able to collect foreign-currency dividends from depository receipt programs. The decree also means foreign holders of the canceled receipts must receive normal shares placed in non-resident accounts in Russia. In a blow to Russia’s richest business… Source link