the first mobile company buys the pioneer group of Silicon Valley. Verizon was considered the favorite since the beginning of the negotiation. Now the deal is official. The telecommunications giant wins 4.8 billion core business of Yahoo !, or a search engine, activities such as Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Business and advertising department. It’s the end, at least at the operational level, the company founded in 1994 at the University of Stanford to provide internet services to individuals and companies, one of the first portals of the World Wide Web. The latest in a series of maneuvers by the companies collected 2.0 , who moved digit billions in recent years to mergers and acquisitions.
A long negotiation . Yahoo had turned down an offer from Microsoft from 44 billion in 2008, and then begin a long agony that has dragged bad water from which it never managed to relaunch. The last quarter of activity, the second of 2016, ended with a net loss of 440 million. Verizon, having overtaken its main competitor, AT & amp; T, who seemed interested in the deal, with a much lower figure concludes the agreement. Can then pursue the objective of strengthening its role in the internet business and especially in online advertising. It is the second step of a strategy begun in 2015, with the acquisition of AOL for $ 4.4 billion, groped to break the Google-Facebook duopoly in the digital media business.
the future of Yahoo! will change name, has already been announced, but will continue to be listed. Yahoo! ceases to exist as an operating company, but maintains its holdings Asian equity in the asset. After the acquisition, we will then become a holding company which includes stakes in Alibaba and Yahoo Japan for about $ 40 billion, some patents and lower investments. The agreement marks the end of the four-year rule of the CEO Melissa Meyer. Uncertain professional future of the former veteran of Google, came to the top of society in 2012 to attempt the revival. It is not excluded that is put on the door. In the case, it would be for a good output of over 50 million dollars.
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