Posted on 01/09/2017 10:59:37 PM PST by Olog-hai
Yahoo Inc. said Monday that it would rename itself Altaba Inc. and Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer would step down from the board after the closing of its deal with Verizon Communications Inc.
Yahoo has a deal to sell its core internet business, which includes its digital advertising, email and media assets, to Verizon for $4.83 billion.
The terms of that deal could be amended — or the transaction may even be called off — after Yahoo last year disclosed two separate data breaches; one involving some 500 million customer accounts and the second involving over a billion. …
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I suspect the name goes back to this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltaVista
It was a great search tool before Yahoo got hold of it.
I remember them. From the era of Netscape browsers and all.
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