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posted by janrinok on Thursday December 12 2019, @09:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the slow-spiral-of-death dept.

Verizon this week is laying off another 150 staffers from the Verizon Media division that includes the Yahoo and AOL subsidiaries, according to a CNN report.

[...]The latest layoffs are less extensive than a major round of job cuts in January 2019.

[...]Verizon purchased Yahoo for $4.48 billion in June 2017 and AOL for $4.4 billion in June 2015.

[...]In December 2018, Verizon said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing that it had "experienced increased competitive and market pressures throughout 2018 that have resulted in lower-than-expected revenues and earnings," and that "[t]hese pressures are expected to continue." Verizon at the time recorded a non-cash goodwill impairment charge of about $4.6 billion, wiping out nearly all of the Yahoo/AOL division's goodwill value.

In Q3 2019, the most recent quarter, Verizon reported media-division revenue of $1.8 billion, down two percent year over year.

[...]

Verizon Media CEO Guru Gowrappan said last month that the company is focused on growing the division's advertising, subscriptions, and e-commerce businesses, according to the CNN report.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/12/verizon-lays-off-another-150-people-in-struggling-yahooaol-division/


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 13 2019, @05:49AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 13 2019, @05:49AM (#931648)

    For Yahoo / aol ... It's yahaol pronounced like yah hole / yahol. Kinda good right? Like you can stick it up yet yahole?