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Struggling Verizon Media Unit Sold To Apollo For $5B

Struggling Verizon Media Unit Sold To Apollo For $5B The telecom giant has offloaded the Verizon Media business unit, which includes its AOL and Yahoo assets, for $5 billion to private equity firm Apollo Global Management. By Gina Narcisi May 03, 2021, 01:01 PM EDT Verizon has sold its Verizon Media business unit, which includes its AOL and Yahoo assets, for $5 billion to private equity firm Apollo Global Management. The telecom giant acquired both AOL and Yahoo in an effort to help Verizon differentiate in the telecom space with a digital media and advertising business. The two assets were rolled into a business unit that Verizon called “Oath.” In 2018, the group was rebranded as Verizon Media, but the segment still struggled to gain a foothold.

Verizon sells 90% of media division to Apollo Global Management for $5 billion

The phone company’s priority today is its wireless business and the construction of a multibillion-dollar network for advanced 5G services. Verizon’s investments in online advertising never really paid off. The company acquired AOL for $4.4 billion in 2015. Tim Armstrong, head of AOL, said at the time he wanted to build a “house of brands” at Verizon under a division dubbed Oath. In 2017, the company bought Yahoo!’s internet properties for about $4.5 billion, betting its 1 billion-plus users would be a fertile audience for online ads. But in 2018, after Hans Vestberg took over as Verizon’s CEO, the company wrote off more than $4 billion of its media holdings, or roughly half the value of those business, and renamed the division Verizon Media Group.

Verizon offloads Yahoo! and AOL brands in $5bn sale of media division

The phone company’s priority today is its wireless business and the construction of a multibillion-dollar network for advanced 5G services. Verizon’s investments in online advertising never really paid off. The company acquired AOL for $4.4bn in 2015. Tim Armstrong, head of AOL, said at the time he wanted to build a “house of brands” at Verizon under a division dubbed Oath. In 2017, the company bought Yahoo!’s internet properties for about $4.5bn, betting its 1 billion-plus users would be a fertile audience for online ads. But in 2018, after Hans Vestberg took over as Verizon’s chief executive, the company wrote off more than $4bn of its media holdings, or roughly half the value of those business, and renamed the division Verizon Media Group.

Stonks, flying burritos and my boss s boss s boss s boss – TechCrunch

Stonks, flying burritos and my boss’s boss’s boss’s boss Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but free, and made for your weekend reading. Want it in your inbox every Saturday morning? Sign up here. What a week. What a month. Are you doing all right? It’s okay if you are tired. We all are. That’s why we have weekends. Let’s reflect on what happened this week: Individual traders outraged more professional investors by doing something hilarious, namely taking a trade that made some sense betting that an atrophying physical retailer was going to continue obsolesce and inverting it.

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