Yahoo sold tech news site Engadget to Static Media in a deal that was signed in early February and is scheduled to close later in March
Yahoo sold tech news site Engadget to Static Media in a deal that was signed in early February and is scheduled to close later in March
The consolidation of iconic internet publishing brands continues, as Static Media takes over another site. … Engadget, the long-running tech news website, has a new owner.
Sources: Yahoo nears a deal to sell AOL to Italian app developer Bending Spoons for ~$1.4B; AOL.com's traffic has recently grown 20% YoY among users aged 25-54
- Bending Spoons in advanced talks to buy AOL from Yahoo, sources say — The Italian unicorn has been on an acquisition spree, may IPO
Yahoo strikes a deal to sell TechCrunch to media investment firm Regent, which acquired PCWorld publisher Foundry earlier this week
Yahoo on Friday said it has struck a deal to sell TechCrunch, the 20-year-old tech journalism site, to Regent, a media investment firm. Bluesky: @amanda.omg.lol , @karlbode.com , and @niedermeyer.onli...
Yahoo plans to acquire the tech behind news app Artifact, started by Instagram co-founders Mike Krieger and Kevin Systrom, for an undisclosed sum
Instagram's co-founders built a powerful and useful tool for recommending news to readers — but could never quite get it to scale.
Yahoo announces that it's spinning off the business around Vespa, an open source tool powering the company's search and ad tech, into an independent venture
Yahoo, otherwise known as the company that pays my salary (full disclosure: Yahoo owns TC), today announced that it's spinning off Vespa …
Yahoo acquires CommonStock, launched in 2020 to let retail investors share insights based on their brokerage account information; CommonStock had raised ~$34M
The deal represents the first acquisition under the Yahoo Finance brand since Yahoo was bought by Apollo https://www.axios.com/... LinkedIn: Jim Lanzone : Cool news coming out of Yahoo Finance today. ...
Verizon plans to sunset BlueJeans, a business-focused video conferencing app the company acquired in 2020, on August 31, due to “the changing market landscape”
Verizon dropped hundreds on millions on BlueJeans at the height of pandemic lockdowns. Threads: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : Verizon is shutting down the Zoom competitor it purchased for $400 milli...
Source: Yahoo plans to launch a retail stock trading service for Yahoo Finance and strike deals with sports betting companies to bolster Yahoo Sports
Yahoo's latest deal underscores its move to boost revenues and use its cash to grow its core businesses, including Yahoo Sports, Yahoo Finance and Yahoo Mail.
Yahoo takes a ~25% stake in Taboola and plans to use Taboola's ad tech as part of a 30-year exclusive deal expected to generate $1B+ in annual revenue
Yahoo's chief executive sees the deal as a long-term bet on digital advertising. The companies estimate that their ad partnership will generate $1 billion annually.