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Internet Trailblazers Yahoo and AOL Sold Again for $5B

(AP) – Monday, May 3, 2021 at 9:45 am | כ”א אייר תשפ”א The Yahoo logo is displayed outside of offices in Santa Clara, Calif. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File) AOL and Yahoo are being sold again, this time to a private equity firm. Verizon will sell Verizon Media, which consists of the pioneering tech platforms, to Apollo Global Management in a $5 billion deal. Verizon said Monday that it will keep a 10% stake in the new company, which will be called Yahoo. Yahoo at the end of the… Source link

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Yahoo, AOL sold — again — for about $5 billion

by: via Nexstar Media Wire, The Associated Press Posted: May 3, 2021 / 07:59 AM CDT / Updated: May 3, 2021 / 08:23 AM CDT A Yahoo! logo is shown on a screen. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) AOL and Yahoo are being sold again, this time to a private equity firm. Verizon will sell Verizon Media, which consists of the pioneering tech platforms, to Apollo Global Management in a $5 billion deal. Verizon said Monday that it will… Source link

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Verizon Selling Yahoo, AOL and Media Assets for $5B to Private Equity Firm Apollo – The Hollywood Reporter

Verizon is exiting the media business. The telecom giant is selling Yahoo, AOL and the remainder of its Verizon Media brands to the private equity firm Apollo Global Management in a $5 billion deal announced Monday. The new company will be called Yahoo and will continue to be run by CEO Guru Gowrappan. Verizon will retain a 10 percent stake in the new company, and LionTree, which served as the lead financial advisor on the transaction, will also be an investor alongside… Source link

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Internet trailblazers Yahoo, AOL sold, again, for $5 billion

(AP) – AOL and Yahoo are being sold again, this time to a private equity firm. Verizon will sell Verizon Media, which consists of the pioneering tech platforms, to Apollo Global Management in a $5 billion deal. Verizon said Monday that it will keep a 10% stake in the new company, which will be called Yahoo. Yahoo at the end of the last century was the face of the internet, preceding the behemoth tech platforms to follow, such as Google. And AOL was the portal, bringing almost every early… Source link

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Verizon sells internet trailblazers Yahoo and AOL for $5B

Verizon spent about $9 billion buying AOL and Yahoo over two years starting in 2015, hoping to jump-start a digital media business that would compete with Google and Facebook. It didn’t work — those brands were already fading even then — as Google and Facebook and, increasingly, Amazon dominate the U.S. digital ad market. The year after buying Yahoo, Verizon wrote down the value of the combined operation, called “Oath,” by roughly the value of the $4.5 billion it had spent on Yahoo. Source link

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Verizon sells internet trailblazers Yahoo and AOL for $5B

Verizon spent about $9 billion buying AOL and Yahoo over two years starting in 2015, hoping to jump-start a digital media business that would compete with Google and Facebook. It didn’t work — those brands were already fading even then — as Google and Facebook and, increasingly, Amazon dominate the U.S. digital ad market. The year after buying Yahoo, Verizon wrote down the value of the combined operation, called “Oath,” by roughly the value of the $4.5 billion it had spent on Yahoo. Source link

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Verizon sells internet trailblazers Yahoo and AOL for $5B

Verizon spent about $9 billion buying AOL and Yahoo over two years starting in 2015, hoping to jump-start a digital media business that would compete with Google and Facebook. It didn’t work — those brands were already fading even then — as Google and Facebook and, increasingly, Amazon dominate the U.S. digital ad market. The year after buying Yahoo, Verizon wrote down the value of the combined operation, called “Oath,” by roughly the value of the $4.5 billion it had spent on Yahoo. Source link

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