All of the websites owned by Yahoo are now officially part of Verizon. And former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, who famously left Google to take over the Purple Portal, is walking away from the company with a pretty sweet deal. Nearly $260 million.
— Marissa Mayer leaves Yahoo with nearly $260 million
Kind of a sad day for the internet – Yahoo! is sorta gone (will be part of the AOL/Yahoo company Oath, which is … currently, icky).
End of an era, that’s for certain…as someone who’s been on the intertubes since before the web…*sigh*….