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Verizon agrees to buy Yahoo for $4.83 billion

Yahoo has agreed to sell its core business to Verizon for $4.83 billion, signaling an end to one of the internet’s most pioneering companies as a standalone entity.

Under the deal, Verizon will acquire Yahoo’s search, mail and instant messaging services, along with its ad platform and a few real estate holdings. Yahoo’s ad business and digital content services — including Yahoo Finance and Yahoo Sports — will be of significant value to Verizon as it looks to expand its offerings in this space following the acquisition of AOL last year for $4.4 billion. The move puts Verizon behind Google and Facebook in the U.S. digital ad segment, with a total share of 4.5%.

Yahoo will retain its stake in Chinese internet giant Alibaba and Yahoo Japan, which have a combined value of over $40 billion. CEO Marissa Mayer isn’t likely to join Verizon, but she will receive a severance package valued at $57 million.

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BASKING RIDGE, N.J., and SUNNYVA…

Yahoo has agreed to promote its core industry to Verizon for $4.83 billion, signaling an finish to some of the web's maximum pioneering firms as a standalone entity.

Beneath the deal, Verizon will gain Yahoo's seek, mail and immediate messaging products and services, at the side of its advert platform and a couple of genuine property holdings. Yahoo's advert industry and virtual content material products and services — together with Yahoo Finance and Yahoo Sports activities — can be of vital worth to Verizon because it seems to be to enlarge its choices on this area following the purchase of AOL last year for $4.4 billion. The transfer places Verizon at the back of Google and Fb within the U.S. virtual advert phase, with a complete percentage of 4.5%.

Yahoo will retain its stake in Chinese language web large Alibaba and Yahoo Japan, that have a mixed worth of over $40 billion. CEO Marissa Mayer is not most probably to sign up for Verizon, however she is going to obtain a severance package deal valued at $57 million.

Verizon to gain Yahoo's running industry

BASKING RIDGE, N.J., and SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 25, 2016 -- Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ) and Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) lately announce they have got entered right into a definitive settlement underneath which Verizon will gain Yahoo's running industry for roughly $4.83 billion in coins, topic to standard ultimate changes.

Yahoo informs, connects and entertains an international target audience of greater than 1 billion per month lively customers** -- together with 600 million per thirty days lively cellular customers*** thru its seek, communications and virtual content material merchandise. Yahoo additionally connects advertisers with goal audiences thru a streamlined promoting generation stack that mixes the facility in their knowledge, content material and generation.

Lowell McAdam, Verizon Chairman and CEO, stated: "Simply over a yr in the past we got AOL to reinforce our means of offering a cross-screen connection for shoppers, creators and advertisers. The purchase of Yahoo will put Verizon in a extremely aggressive place as a most sensible international cellular media corporate, and lend a hand boost up our income circulate in virtual promoting."

Yahoo will probably be built-in with AOL beneath Marni Walden, EVP and President of the Product Innovation and New Companies group at Verizon.

Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo, stated: "Yahoo is an organization that has modified the arena, and can proceed to achieve this thru this mix with Verizon and AOL. The sale of our running industry, which successfully separates our Asian asset fairness stakes, is the most important step in our plan to release shareholder worth for Yahoo. This transaction additionally units up a good chance for Yahoo to construct additional distribution and boost up our paintings in cellular, video, local promoting and social."

Mayer added, "Yahoo and AOL popularized the Web, e-mail, seek and real-time media. It is poetic to be becoming a member of forces with AOL and Verizon as we input our subsequent bankruptcy occupied with attaining scale on cellular. We've got an ideal, unswerving, skilled and high quality group, and I could not be prouder of our achievements to date, together with construction our new strains of industrial to $1.6 billion in GAAP income in 2015. I am excited to prolong our momentum thru this transaction."

Tim Armstrong, CEO of AOL, stated: "Our challenge at AOL is to construct manufacturers other folks love, and we will be able to proceed to spend money on and develop them. Yahoo has been a long-time investor in top class content material and created one of the most maximum liked shopper manufacturers in key classes like sports activities, information and finance."

Beneath Armstrong, AOL has invested in and grown international top class manufacturers, together with The Huffington Submit, TechCrunch, Engadget, MAKERS and AOL.com, and market-leading programmatic platforms -- together with ONE through AOL for each advertisers and publishers.

Armstrong added, "We have now monumental recognize for what Yahoo has completed: this transaction is set unleashing Yahoo's complete attainable, construction upon our collective synergies, and strengthening and accelerating that expansion. Combining Verizon, AOL and Yahoo will create a brand new tough aggressive rival in cellular media, and an open, scaled choice providing for advertisers and publishers."

The addition of Yahoo to Verizon and AOL will create some of the biggest portfolios of owned and partnered international manufacturers with in depth distribution functions. Mixed, AOL and Yahoo could have greater than 25 manufacturers in its portfolio for persisted funding and expansion. Yahoo's key belongings come with market-leading top class content material manufacturers in primary classes together with finance, information and sports activities, in addition to some of the widespread e mail products and services globally with roughly 225 million per month lively customers****. Further generation belongings within the promoting area come with Brightroll, a programmatic demand-side platform; Flurry, an unbiased cellular apps analytics carrier; and Gemini, a local and seek promoting answer.

The deal is topic to standard ultimate prerequisites, approval through Yahoo's shareholders, and regulatory approvals, and is predicted to shut in Q1 of 2017. Till the last, Yahoo will proceed to function independently, providing and making improvements to its personal services for customers, advertisers, developers and companions.

Verizon will normally factor cash-settled Verizon RSUs for Yahoo RSUs which are remarkable on the shut.

The sale does now not come with Yahoo's coins, its stocks in Alibaba Staff Holdings, its stocks in Yahoo Japan, Yahoo's convertible notes, sure minority investments, and Yahoo's non-core patents (referred to as the Excalibur portfolio). Those belongings will proceed to be held by way of Yahoo, which can exchange its identify at last and turn out to be a registered, publicly traded funding corporate. Yahoo will supply further details about the funding corporate at a long run date.

Yahoo intends to go back considerably all of its web coins to shareholders and can decide and keep in touch a selected capital go back technique at an acceptable time.

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