Verizon Media
| Verizon Media | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Incorporated |
| founding | June 13, 2017 |
| Seat |
New York City and Sunnyvale , United States
|
| management | K. Guru Gowrappan ( CEO ) |
| Number of employees | 14,000 (2017) |
| Branch | Internet |
| Website | verizonmedia.com |
Verizon Media , which was named Oath until January 2019 , is a US company founded in 2017 with headquarters in New York City and Sunnyvale . It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Verizon Communications . The company is an amalgamation of over 50 media and technology companies, including AOL and Yahoo , with a total of one billion customers; it is directed by K. Guru Gowrappan.
Verizon announced the acquisition of AOL in May 2015 and the acquisition of Yahoo in July 2017. The rest of the Yahoo! Inc. were combined under Altaba Inc. Until the transaction was completed, the companies were managed by their respective board members.
Company headquarters
The main offices of AOL and Yahoo will become the headquarters of Verizon Media. These are in New York City and Sunnyvale . Verizon Media has additional locations in Australia, Belgium, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Canada, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand and distributed in the United States of America.
Brands
Some of Verizon Media's brands include:
Former brands
Web links
- Verizon Media website
Individual evidence
- ↑ techcrunch.com: atest round of Verizon layoffs at Oath affects <4% of staff globally
- ↑ Two big names disappear: Yahoo and AOL become Oath - mobilegeeks.de
- ^ Verizon names new CEO for Oath . In: Reuters . September 12, 2018 ( reuters.com [accessed March 26, 2020]).
- ↑ Verizon to buy AOL for $ 4.4bn . In: BBC News . May 12, 2015 ( bbc.com [accessed August 16, 2017]).
- ↑ Todd Spangler: Verizon Closes $ 4.5 Billion Yahoo Deal, Marissa Mayer Resigns . In: Variety . June 13, 2017 ( variety.com [accessed August 16, 2017]).
- ^ Verizon and all new Oath Inc. Story of Yahoo, AOL and Altaba - FlatFur Media. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 16, 2017 ; Retrieved August 16, 2017 (American English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Niraj Chokshi, Vindu Goel: Verizon Announces New Name Brand for AOL and Yahoo: Oath . In: The New York Times . April 3, 2017, ISSN 0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed August 16, 2017]).
- ↑ Our brands - Oath . In: Oath . ( oath.com [accessed August 16, 2017]).
- ↑ Together is where photographers belong! In: flickr.net . April 20, 2018, accessed April 22, 2018 .
- ↑ Tumblr is bought by WordPress creators. In: hellwegradio.de . August 13, 2019, accessed August 16, 2019 .
