Verizon Sells Yahoo and AOL for $5 Billion
If the high-pitched screech of a dial-up modem brings back fond memories, you may be delighted to learn that Verizon Media is being renamed as Yahoo after being sold to a private equity firm. Verizon Media bought Yahoo in 2017 and AOL in 2015 for a combined $9 billion but the current sale values them at around half that amount. Oopsies.