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		mtgx on May 3, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pornhub wants to buy Tumblr Verizon wrote off the $5 billion Yahoo purchase, and basically values it at $200 million now. https://edition.cnn.com/2018/12/11/media/verizon-oath-valuat... So much for Verizon's content empire. And to think this was the reason they began putting super-cookies into everyone's computers. Good riddance!

skinnymuch on May 3, 2019 [–]

It doesn’t specify exactly what they value Yahoo at. Just that the brand value of all of Oath is $200M now. Brand value isn’t all value.

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