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...Verizon had put both under the “Oath” brand as part of a strategy at the time to diversify away from its telecoms business into media, but was forced to write down the businesses and sell them at close to...
...Write to the FintechFT team at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com. You can build it, but will they come?...
...The New York-based investment firm agreed earlier this week to pay communications giant Verizon $5bn for Yahoo, along with AOL and a collection of other digital media properties it had amassed....
...Apollo has agreed to pay $5bn to own 90 per cent of Verizon’s media assets, which include what was left of AOL and Yahoo....
...‘Perfect scenario’ Those look like V-shaped projections, Andrew Glenn thought to himself....
...The buzz on BuzzFeed and HuffPostBuzzFeed has acquired HuffPost from the telecoms group Verizon in exchange for a minority stake in the online media group....
...Verizon....
...Mic folded, as did Oath, Verizon’s ill-time digital media foray, and Tavi Gevinson’s Rookie....
...Restrictions, he argued, would “reduce opportunities for small businesses so much that it would probably be felt at a macroeconomic level”....
...Verizon had a 75 per cent increase in gaming traffic in just one week in mid-March. No wonder network latency, or the time it takes for data to travel, is a major issue....
...Small farmers also burn off forest and peatland. Indonesia’s annual blazes were first taken seriously in 1997....
...(FT) News round-up Allianz scraps Saracens sponsorship (FT) Vice Media raised money at a sky-high valuation....
...The “soul extractor”, as the workers at A-fun Interactive call it, is a small white room. In the centre is a stool surrounded by a metal frame dotted with more than 40 digital cameras....
...“They are getting a small percentage of each transaction,” he said. “But that number — the total volume that will be exchanged — it’s going to be gargantuan.”...
...AstraZeneca remains a quite small company in an international context though, with future performance reliant on half a dozen drugs....
...Social media is a useful tool for someone, like her, “committed to communication and to change”....
...It is still seen, even with an enterprise value of $31bn, as too small to survive alone. Its forward price-to-earnings ratio is nine times, compared to Disney at 15 times....
...But Facebook would only need to convert a small proportion of its 2bn users to be successful....
...He had proposed asking users to pay small fees after posting a certain number of messages — an idea which was shot down by Sheryl Sandberg, Mr Zuckerberg’s number two....
...The changes come amid an increasing overlap in services provided by telecoms, media and some internet companies....
...There is also evidence that a small group of “superstar” companies are pulling way ahead of others, not only in terms of profits but also productivity....
...“There were some small opportunities we put in the fridge while the big cake was being baked,” he said....
...More formal rules, adopted in 2010, were also thrown out by a federal court after a challenge from Verizon....
...The same month it said it would spend $200m on a media group in India....
...More than a year later he is still there but at 86 and with a big media empire to run — including potential sale talks with Disney, Verizon and Comcast — he has a lot on his plate....
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