Last month Mozilla announced that it was changing the default search engine for its Firefox web browser from Yahoo to Google. Actually, the organization announced it was changing the search engine back to Google, because that’s what it had been until Mozilla signed a deal with Yahoo in 2014 to make Yahoo the default. When Mozilla […]
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Verizon makes an Oath (after closing $4.5 billion Yahoo purchase)
Verizon’s acquisition of Yahoo closed today, which means that the company best known as a wireless carrier and TV and internet service provider is also now the proud owner of two of the internet’s biggest names (from the year 2000): AOL and Yahoo. Now that AOL and Yahoo are under the same roof, Verizon plans […]
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Verizon to combine AOL, Yahoo, other properties as Oath
Over the past few years Verizon has gone on an internet property buying spree, including the acquisition of AOL in 2015 and the purchase of Yahoo, which is expected to close soon. So what does Verizon plan to do with those companies? Put them together under a new brand: Oath. Business Insider broke the news […]