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What value do Yahoo and AOL have?

May 3, 2021
Verizon is selling the two companies to private equity firm Apollo Global Management for $5 billion.
How exactly could Apollo, the private equity firm that is buying Yahoo and AOL, make the companies more valuable?
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Tim Armstrong: People need to vote on net neutrality

Oath is uniting AOL and Yahoo, but can it compete with today's online giants?
“The net neutrality debate has to end up in Congress,” says Oath CEO Tim Armstrong, onstage at the Makers Conference at Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles.
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The Source Code: Tim Armstrong

Feb 19, 2018
The CEO of Oath talks about the combination of AOL and Yahoo.
Tim Armstrong speaks at an event on the Times Center Stage in New York City.
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RIP AIM, the instant messaging service that shaped our teenage lives

Dec 15, 2017
AOL's service primed a generation for the 24-7 social media world we have today.
A Brazilian woman logs onto AOL at a cybercafe in Sao Paulo in 1999.
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Yahoo and AOL will form Oath, a new company, under Verizon

Jun 13, 2017
Verizon is expected to close on its $4.4 billion acquisition of Yahoo today after nearly a year of negotiations. Verizon will combine Yahoo with its property AOL to create Oath, the largest digital media company in the United States, with more visitors than Google. Will Oath have a chance to compete with Google and Facebook […]

Incoming transmissions from our 'Star Trek' listeners

Sep 9, 2016
We asked how you identified with 'Star Trek.'
Captain Kirk tries to use his communicator.
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Is Yahoo's Internet business worth $3 billion?

Jun 7, 2016
That depends on who's buying it, and what they'll do with it.
Yahoo! President and CEO Marissa Mayer delivers a keynote during the Yahoo Mobile Developers Conference on February 18, 2016 at The Masonic in San Francisco, California.
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For public good, not for profit.

How buying Yahoo would help Verizon reshape itself

Apr 18, 2016
Speculation abounds on whether or not the nation's leading wireless service carrier should purchase the struggling Internet giant.
Verizon is looking to buy Yahoo. 
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Steve Case on the internet's past and future

Apr 4, 2016
Reflections on his time at AOL, and that merger — you know the one.
Steve Case, left, then chairman of AOL, and Gerald Levin, then chairman of Time Warner. announce the merger of their companies on Jan. 10, 2000.
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Who are AOL's two million dial-up users?

May 13, 2015
And what should Verizon do with them?