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Bloomberg Oil Crown Jewels No Longer Off Limits in Mideast Amid Deal Surge (Bloomberg) — Time was when the Middle East’s petrostates recoiled from using their crown jewels to raise money from foreign investors.Not any more. In the space of a few weeks, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Oman and Kuwait have all accelerated multi-billion-dollar plans to sell energy assets or issue bonds off the back of them. Capping that trend, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said Tuesday… Source link

The sale of media assets Verizon is exploring could yield a price in the $4 billion to $5 billion range, people familiar with the matter said; a Verizon store in San Francisco. Photo: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg News Updated April 28, 2021 4:42 pm ET … Source link

Verizon Media has announced two new creations to further enhance the sports fan experience and bring fans closer to their passions: Draft Together, a new video chat feature, and Yahoo Fantasy Plus, anew subscription product. The launch of the two new offerings advances Yahoo’s mission to shape the future of sports and fandom on mobile by offering compelling content, products… Source link

Verizon Media Group has launched Yahoo Plus subscriptions, a new suite of freemium products to grow its base of more than 3 million subscribers. Yahoo Plus is launching with four products: Yahoo Plus Mail, Yahoo Plus Finance, Yahoo Plus Protect and Yahoo Plus Fantasy. If subscribers select more than one product, they can save 10%, 15% or 20% through Verizon Media’s “Buy More, Save More” program. Subscribers will also see fewer ads… Source link

Some bright spark at US telco group Verizon has decided all its media products should be aligned with the iconic Yahoo brand. Verizon isn’t so excited about the move that it has issued a formal press release about it, however, preferring instead to grant an exclusive interview to Axios. “Yahoo is the future of our consumer facing brand,” said Joanna Lambert, Head of Consumer at Verizon Media. “Over time, we will be moving non-Yahoo brands and centralizing them around Yahoo.” Why… Source link

Verizon Media Group, the media division within Verizon, has 3 million people that pay for subscriptions across its portfolio of Yahoo-related products, like Yahoo Fantasy, Yahoo Finance and others, executives tell Axios. Why it matters: Moving forward, the goal will be to rebrand most of its media franchises as Yahoo products, and to focus on selling subscriptions to those products via a rebranded subscription portfolio called “Yahoo Plus.” Driving the news: “Yahoo is the future of our… Source link

What you need to know: Yahoo Shops will be the first digital media marketplace to feature native commerce capabilities and launch with a commitment to diversity, pledging at least 15% of merchants will be Black-owned businesses Shoppable video, personalized features, and XR tools will be hallmarks of Yahoo Shops With the scale of Verizon Media’s audience and advertising platforms, Yahoo Shops offers brands a seamless connection to consumers, from discovery to transaction NEW YORK, NY – Today,… Source link

Bloomberg Deliveroo Kicks Off $2.5 Billion IPO, U.K.’s Largest in 2021 (Bloomberg) — Food-delivery startup Deliveroo Holdings Plc started taking investor orders in a share sale of as much as 1.77 billion pounds ($2.45 billion), marking the largest initial public offering in the U.K. since September.Deliveroo is selling shares at 3.90 pounds to 4.60 pounds apiece, according to a statement Monday, valuing the company at 7.6 billion pounds to 8.8 billion pounds.The offering is the biggest… Source link

Yahoo is delving deeper into e-commerce, but don’t expect a mirror image of The New York Times’ Wirecutter or New York Magazine’s The Strategist. While Yahoo already has affiliate links in much of its content, which guides customers to the likes of Amazon and Walmart to complete a sale, its new venture Yahoo Shops, set to launch later this year, will be its own marketplace managing the entire purchase journey from beginning to end. “It will be the first digital media marketplace… Source link

TipRanks 2 “Strong Buy” Dividend Stocks Yielding at Least 7% A number of factors are coming together in the market picture, and indicate a possible change in conditions in the mid-term. These include increases in commodity prices, specifically, oil prices, which have rallied recently. In addition, the January jobs numbers, released earlier this month, were disappointing at best – and grim, at worst. They, do, however, increase the chance that President Biden and the Democratic Congress… Source link