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On the heels of today's news that Yahoo still has hacking issues, it seems that Verizon wants a price reduction on their Yahoo purchase. Verizon is buying Yahoo on the strength of their messenger, email and search assets; none of which I have used in years.
I thought that the reduction would have been more than $250 million to $350 million, but what price can you place on over two decades of user's personal data? I see this deal as Verizon buying our personal data for 4.83 billion. Yahoo has gotten older and less relevant over the years as Google became a juggernaut. Maybe even a bit senile with the way they protect our data?
Verizon hopes to combine Yahoo's search, email and messenger assets, as well as advertising technology tools, with its AOL unit, which Verizon bought in 2015 for $4.4 billion. Verizon has been looking to mobile video and advertising for new sources of revenue outside an oversaturated wireless market.
But Sunnyvale, California-based Yahoo has been under scrutiny by federal investigators and lawmakers since disclosing the largest known data breach in history in December, months after disclosing a separate hack.
I thought that the reduction would have been more than $250 million to $350 million, but what price can you place on over two decades of user's personal data? I see this deal as Verizon buying our personal data for 4.83 billion. Yahoo has gotten older and less relevant over the years as Google became a juggernaut. Maybe even a bit senile with the way they protect our data?
Verizon hopes to combine Yahoo's search, email and messenger assets, as well as advertising technology tools, with its AOL unit, which Verizon bought in 2015 for $4.4 billion. Verizon has been looking to mobile video and advertising for new sources of revenue outside an oversaturated wireless market.
But Sunnyvale, California-based Yahoo has been under scrutiny by federal investigators and lawmakers since disclosing the largest known data breach in history in December, months after disclosing a separate hack.