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Verizon Completes $4.4B Acquisition Of AOL
It’s not often you hear about a shotgun wedding between two tech companies, but that’s apparently what happened for Verizon and AOL, as the recently betrothed said today that they had officially...
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Coming Soon To An AOL Ad Network Near You: All That Data Verizon Collects On...
When Verizon first announced its plans to acquire AOL back in May, jokes abounded. The name “AOL” still conjures the sound of modems screeching and a friendly digital voice announcing haltingly,...
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24 Stories We Covered In 2015 That We Never Saw Coming
The following is a true story: One day, two Consumerist staffers were chatting about the work day. One said, “I can’t believe I’m writing about the legal ramifications of butt-dialing.” The other...
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Verizon Sets Stage To Purchase Second ’90s Internet Relic; Reportedly Bids...
A second round of bids for Yahoo’s core internet business — including search, mail, and news sites — is officially underway, and Verizon is reportedly coming in hot, offering $3 billion for the assets....
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It’s Obviously Delightful When The “You’ve Got Mail” Guy Is Your Uber Driver
There are few certainties in this world — we live, we die, that’s about it — but one thing is for sure: if the voice behind AOL’s “You’ve got mail!” greeting is your Uber driver, you’re gonna make him...
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AOL Still Exists, Laying Off 500 People
Six months after Verizon Communications paid $4.4 billion to buy AOL and its collection of media and technology companies, the top honcho at the ‘90s Internet brand says they’ll be laying off about 5%...
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UPDATED: Yahoo, AOL Brands To Be Part Of Verizon’s New ‘Oath’ Thing
UPDATE: Yahoo Finance is now reporting that the Yahoo brand will, in fact, not disappear but will instead exist under the bigger “Oath” umbrella. Two of the last vestiges of the original internet boom...
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Yahoo Claims Its Brand Will Still Exist, Will Operate Under ‘Oath’ Division
Apparently the Yahoo brand isn’t going away as part of the Verizon merger. Rather, the brand will operate as a part of the new “Oath” division. Yahoo Finance reports that after Verizon finishes the...
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Verizon Could Launch New Streaming Video This Summer
Verizon’s rumored over-the-top streaming TV service — not to be confused with its nearly universally panned two-year-old Go90 product — could be available as soon as next month, executives for the...
View ArticleAOL Instant Messenger To Shuffle Off This Mortal Coil On Dec. 15
Like Marcel Proust nipping on a tea-soaked petite madeleine and finding himself awash in the memories of his youth, some of us of a certain age may be immediately transported to 1999 by the distinctive...
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