New Name for Yahoo After Verizon Sale, CEO to Leave Board
By ETCentric
January 10, 2017
January 10, 2017
Yahoo announced that board members, including CEO Marissa Mayer and co-founder David Filo, would step down from the board of directors once the company’s core Internet assets are sold to Verizon. What remains of the company after the sale is completed would be renamed Altaba (combining “alternate” and “Alibaba”). “Altaba’s remaining assets include Yahoo’s stake in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Yahoo Japan,” reports The Wall Street Journal. Board member Eric Brandt, former CFO of Broadcom, will become Altaba’s chairman. Mayer “is expected to remain with Yahoo once it becomes part of Verizon.” The deal will cost Verizon about $4.8 billion, unless terms are changed due to two recent high-profile hacks of user data.
Topics: Acquisition, Alibaba, Altaba, Broadcom, David Filo, Eddy Hartenstein, Eric Brandt, Google, Hacking, Internet, Jane Shaw, Jeffrey Smith, Marissa Mayer, Maynard Webb, Novellus Systems, Privacy, RemainCo, Richard Hill, Security, Starboard Value, Thomas McInerney, Tor Braham, User Data, Verizon, Yahoo, Yahoo Japan
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