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Inside Verizon’s Gamble on Digital Media

Verizon is trying to imagine a broader future for itself, and with its acquisitions of Vodafone Group's Verizon Wireless interest, AOL and now Yahoo, the picture is coming into focus. The Wall Street Journal reports the plan is to "own and distribute online content and use data collected from mobile phones to target advertising to tens of millions of users." WSJ subscribers can read the full story here.

By TVNewsCheck | August 2, 2016 | 8:20 a.m. ET.
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Shenee Howard says:

August 2, 2016 at 10:18 am

I believe Verizon only bought out Vodaphone’s share of Verizon Wireless. It is still an independent wireless company headquartered in the UK and focused in Europe with interest in other countries. Nobody checks facts anymore?

    Ieva M. Augstums & Tim Paradis says:

    August 2, 2016 at 1:33 pm

    Thanks for pointing that out. I’ve changed the text above to reflect that.