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Verizon sells Yahoo and AOL businesses to Apollo for $5 billion
CNBC ^ | MON, MAY 3 20218:02 AM EDT : UPDATED 3 HOURS AGO | Steve Kovach

Posted on 05/03/2021 9:09:41 AM PDT by Red Badger

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1 posted on 05/03/2021 9:09:41 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

I thought Apollo died in Rocky IV.


2 posted on 05/03/2021 9:17:38 AM PDT by Migraine
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To: Red Badger

Appolo must need a tax write off. No one in their right mind would pay that kind of money for those 2 dogs.


3 posted on 05/03/2021 9:17:51 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged )
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To: Red Badger

I am shocked to see that much value in Yahoo or AOL.

I continue to use my first email address I got from Pacific Bell (PacBell) many decades ago. It has gone through many corporate upheavals with SBCGlobal, AT&T, Yahoo!, Verizon and causes me untold pain keeping it running. But it still works.


4 posted on 05/03/2021 9:17:54 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“If we were in a real pandemic, there’d be no need to declare it.”)
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To: Red Badger

Someone paid $5B for AOL ....Wow


5 posted on 05/03/2021 9:18:06 AM PDT by The Klingon
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To: Migraine

I thought Apollo died in Rocky IV.

I thought AOL died.


6 posted on 05/03/2021 9:22:51 AM PDT by Flick Lives (“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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To: Red Badger

Life comes at you fast. I’m old enough to remember when Yahoo and AOL were the 800-lb gorillas of the internet, as dominant relatively speaking as Google/Alphabet and Facebook are now. I still use yahoo daily for a mail account and stock quotes, vestiges of that earlier era.


7 posted on 05/03/2021 9:24:30 AM PDT by irishjuggler
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weird...yesterday I got a notice from verizon about yahoo (or yahoo about verizon) explaining their privacy policy - which absolutely sux rocks. I turned everything off.

Drudge (I know, I know - still gotta see what the enemy is up to) is a big user of yahoo.


8 posted on 05/03/2021 9:25:45 AM PDT by stylin19a (Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out of a bagpipe.)
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To: Red Badger; Liz

I thought the name rang a bell. From January...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoinegara/2021/01/25/billionaire-leon-black-to-step-down-from-private-equity-giant-apollo-after-release-of-jeffrey-epstein-investigation/


9 posted on 05/03/2021 9:26:38 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
I am shocked to see that much value in Yahoo or AOL.

I am shocked to see those two are still in business. I haven't received an AOL CD in the mail in years!

10 posted on 05/03/2021 9:27:35 AM PDT by FatherofFive (We support Trump. Not the GOP)
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Also from January...

Apollo Global CEO Leon Black paid sex predator Jeffrey Epstein $158 million for financial advice after conviction

11 posted on 05/03/2021 9:27:36 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: The Klingon
Someone paid $5B for AOL ....Wow

 

Yes. And AOL sent them all their data on these...


12 posted on 05/03/2021 9:28:27 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Actual FR Quote: “I ain’t getting no Covid Vaccine. I’d rather get Covid and DIE before I get a jab.)
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To: mewzilla
And from last month...

Leon Black named ‘independent’ directors to Apollo despite deep ties

13 posted on 05/03/2021 9:28:49 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: Red Badger

I still use the Yahoo for an e-mail address...used to use the messenger for talking /video calling...back in the 90’s Yahoo was not as moonbatted out ...today it is just propaganda like 95% of whats out here in our so called news .....everything that was good about them is gone


14 posted on 05/03/2021 9:29:27 AM PDT by mythenjoseph
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Those two aren’t worth $5.


15 posted on 05/03/2021 9:30:25 AM PDT by rdl6989 ( )
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Yahoo! has disabled the comments to articles for several months to protect the “woke” snowflakes from dangerous ideas that conflict with their own (or the ones they’ve been brainwashed into believing).


16 posted on 05/03/2021 9:30:28 AM PDT by BipolarBob (RIP Howard Beale, the countries last honest TV commentator.)
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To: mythenjoseph

When I first started using the internet Yahoo was my search engine. I hadn’t used it in ages.


17 posted on 05/03/2021 9:32:13 AM PDT by rdl6989 ( )
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To: Red Badger

I had a friend who BOUGHT Yahoo stock at $400/share in the year 2000.


18 posted on 05/03/2021 9:35:07 AM PDT by montag813 ("Fallen, fallen, is Babylon the Great")
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To: Flick Lives
- I thought AOL died. -

I thought so too, for a while. Then when Verizon unloaded its FIOS business to Frontier a few years ago AOL suddenly became the service provider for my verizon.net email account.

19 posted on 05/03/2021 9:35:21 AM PDT by ken in texas
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To: Red Badger

Yet another shuffling of assets, and “rebranding”. $5 billion for both Yahoo and AOL. Somebody’s balance sheet has taken a loss ;-)


20 posted on 05/03/2021 9:39:12 AM PDT by glorgau
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