Yahoo's sale: This feels like the end of the road
The deal also gives Verizon access to customer data, meaning it can be more targeted with its advertising: "This allows Verizon to create better ad products which is competitive against primarily online giants such as Google, and creates a better user experience which is competitive against other cable and telecom providers", explains VanBoskirk.
Stock indexes were lower in early trading as both Verizon (VZ) and Yahoo (YHOO) shares both declined after the companies announced they'd join forces. Verizon acquired AOL a little over a year ago, and the company has said that it will integrate Yahoo with AOL. YouGov's Brand Index show that Yahoo's index ranking (a measure of a range of metrics including quality, impression and reputation) has fallen over the past year to 3.8.
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"Yahoo is a company that has changed the world and will continue to do so through this combination with Verizon and AOL". Ultimately, Mayer said, Verizon "offered the most compelling transaction" and believed in the company's vision the most.
While the former Yahoo Small Business was an afterthought from a financial perspective, both when Yahoo attempted to spin it off previous year and within today's transaction, it remains an important technology to a number of online retailers.
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The deal comes with Yahoo, a one-time leader in the online space, struggling to keep up with rivals such as Google and Facebook. That business will distribute the cash of the former Yahoo back to investors at some point after the deal is done. "We counteracted numerous tectonic shifts of declining legacy business, and build a Yahoo that is unequivocally stronger, nimbler and more modern", said Ms. Mayer to the staff in an email. Acquiring Yahoo will bring in millions more viewers from Yahoo sites like Finance, Sports and News. As that aspect of Yahoo becomes part of AOL, one area of Yahoo will continue: its assets in the Alibaba Group and Yahoo Japan, which will rebrand and become a new "publicly traded investment company". Verizon has been looking to mobile video and advertising for new sources of revenue outside the oversaturated wireless market. "We set out to create a stronger, more modern, version of Yahoo and that's very much happened", she said. The deal with Verizon, which is subject to approval by Yahoo's shareholders, regulatory and other approvals, is expected to close in the first quarter of 2017.
The business magazine Forbes called the agreement with Verizon "the saddest $5 billion deal in tech history". She also said that she will be staying on at the company, though it is not clear what her role will be. The shares have more than doubled since Mayer became Yahoo's CEO, largely because of the rising value of the Alibaba stake.
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The sale could result in thousands of layoffs as Verizon eliminates overlapping jobs and services in Yahoo and AOL. The company will operate independently until then.
