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Taking Stock of Yahoo in Its Final Days as a Public Company

Its deal with Verizon is set to close in June, but will the acquisition help salvage the company's struggling core business?
Source: Brian Snyder / Reuters

After 21 years on the open market, it’s likely that Yahoo will soon no longer be a publicly traded company. On Tuesday, Marissa Mayer, Yahoo’s CEO, issued a statement marking Yahoo’s “final quarter as an independent company” that accompanied what is set to be its last public quarterly earnings report. The.

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