Verizon Has Reportedly Bought Yahoo for $4.8 Billion
Telecom giant gains big digital audience

Yahoo is taking on a different video ads sales approach this spring.
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Yahoo, once as big of an internet company as one could find, has been sold to Verizon Communications for $4.8 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal. Just prior to when the dot-com bubble burst in 2000, the digital pioneer, at that time, had a market capitalization of some $125 billion.