frontrunner to acquire Yahoo is AT&T's bitter rival Verizon, making any ongoing partnership between the two companies impractical. AT&T announced it is shifting all its online platforms to B2B specialist

However, the clear frontrunner is Verizon, which, if successful, will merge Yahoo with AOL, acquired last year. AOL's Tim Armstrong would become CEO of the combined business. That entity would give it

including Verizon (widely considered the frontrunner), Microsoft and a surprising new name in the hat, the UK mediaowner Daily Mail & General Trust. The first round of bidding closes on Monday. Yet at

In the news this past week: Media Verizon continued to expand its digital content offering, striking a joint venture with Hearst to launch two new streamed media brands that will be available via its

It faces stiff competition from Verizon and AT&T among others, but a bid from the significantly smaller publisher could qualify for significant tax breaks not available to the larger groups. It could

In the news this past week: Media Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam has confirmed that he is considering a bid for some or all of Yahoo's online assets, which would be combined with that other internet dinosaur

US telecoms giant Verizon reported what it called "strong and balanced" results following "a year of transformational change", which saw the development of its content business through acquisitions of

brand now that the company is a unit of telecoms giant Verizon. "Are we going to keep the AOL brand or are we going to bring a new brand to market?" she said. "I actually don't think there's a bad choice,

are already positing an acquisition of Yahoo by Verizon. Such a deal would bring to fruition a long-predicted merger of Yahoo with its fellow dinosaur AOL, which Verizon acquired earlier this year. However

McGarryBowen is being shunted to the outer edges of Verizon's creative roster. Once the lead agency for all the telecoms giant's creative work, its responsibilities have been steadily eroded over the