Verizon to buy AOL

Qhue_sl said:

Now we know the answer for how they intend to make bank off of AOL...by buying Yahoo as well. It was such an obvious thing and completely worth another $4bn.

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Out of nowhere a Gnome appears.

Cad_sl said:

I'm kind of surprised yahoo is even still online.

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Same.

Not even sure what they offer. I guess I use them more than Google Finance.

One article I read stated that Yahoo had the chance to buy Google for $1 million in 1997. And Facebook for $1 billion around 2006. Also that Meyer had something like 53 company acquisitions during her tenure as CEO, ~41 of which have since been shut down (in fairness, it's possible Yahoo just wanted whatever tech/IP/Patents those companies had).

Somebody was finally dumb enough to buy Yahoo. 4 billion seems way too much.

Eyashusa_sl said:

Terrible Infographic

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This is terribly inaccurate.

Yahoo's stake in Alibaba is estimate to be worth $28 Billion. This would have been included in the purchase by Microsoft I think.

So we are looking at a rough loss of 7 Billion. It's not as wide as all these pictures seem to make it out to be. Not sure how much Yahoo's other holdings are worth the gap may be even smaller.