Yet this entity, which doesn’t even have a name yet, is worth more than six times the amount Verizon is paying for the internet portal that web users have known for decades.
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In a statement to employees shared on her Tumblr page, the heavily scrutinised CEO said she loves Yahoo and that, “It’s important to see Yahoo into its next chapter”.
Verizon will generally issue cash-settled Verizon RSUs for Yahoo RSUs that are outstanding at the close.
This week, while heavy on individual company earnings, is light on economic data. That might be valuable to the advertiser, and Verizon could charge more.
“Yahoo?s products and brand will be central to achieving these goals”, she said. And it’ll be interesting to see if Yahoo and Microsoft continue to collaborate on search traffic & share ad traffic once the transaction with Verizon is complete.
“It would be premature and presumptive of me to discuss what Verizon may or may not want to do”.
While there had been speculation among Wall Street observers that Mayer would exit with a Yahoo sale, she said that she plans to stay.
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Verizon, which has a vast amount of information about its customers’ internet use, hopes the combination will help it create a strong No. 3 challenger to Google and Facebook for digital advertising revenue.
Despite the sad ending for two companies that were once internet giants, the Los Angeles Times noted there could still be profitability in the future for Yahoo. “But better late than never”.
The acquisition will not include Yahoo’s cash, its shares in Yahoo Japan and Alibaba Group Holdings, non-core patents, minority investments and convertible notes.
At its peak in 1999, Yahoo was valued at more than $US109 billion, or almost triple its current value. Verizon acquired AOL a little over a year ago, and the company has said that it will integrate Yahoo with AOL. But after a sale process that dragged on for months, Verizon, long viewed as the frontrunner, is walking away with Yahoo’s more than one billion monthly active users.
Nothing major will change until the deal closes. Verizon is buying Yahoo’s real estate, along with the online operations. Yahoo has already laid off 1,900 workers since last September.
According to eMarketer, Google and Facebook had a combined 55 percent of the USA digital-ad market past year, while a combined Verizon and Yahoo would have had just 6 percent.
The activist crusade may also cost Mayer her job.
If you have a Yahoo email account or regularly visit services like Yahoo Finance and Yahoo Sports, you might be wondering what will happen to the once-venerable brand once Verizon takes over. “I am incredibly proud of all that”. By early afternoon, Yahoo was down 2.7 per cent.
Yahoo executives said the remaining company is structured to “indefinitely” hold its Yahoo Japan and Alibaba stakes. Co-founders Jerry Yang and David Filo began building a web directory as Stanford University computer graduate students in 1994, and Yahoo quickly established itself as the online hub for tens of millions of people. It proved that internet companies could indeed be profitable as other dot-com startups burned through millions of dollars. Yahoo failed to recognize the importance of social networking and was slow to make the leap into mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.
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Yahoo investors have been focused on this part of the business for years, and Yahoo’s failure to spin them off without tax penalties was a factor in its decision to seek a buyer for the rest of the business amid an activist revolt.
