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Report: Verizon using Yahoo hacking to ask for $1 billion price concession

Yahoo in a tough spot: it needs the deal but would have trouble selling a $1 billion discount to institutional investors.

Greg Sterling on December 15, 2016 at 12:15 pm
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Earlier this year, Verizon agreed to buy most of the assets of Yahoo, including the Yahoo brand. The purchase price was nearly $5 billion; however, that was before the revelation of two massive hacking episodes.

The first data breach took place in 2014 and was said to impact more than 500 million accounts globally. It was revealed in October. Yesterday, news of a new breach came out. That one happened in 2013, and reportedly, one billion accounts were impacted. Yahoo previously said that the hacking was state-sponsored or conducted by state-affiliated entities (e.g., Russia).

Prior to yesterday’s revelation, Verizon was seeking to negotiate a massive ($1 billion) discount off the originally agreed purchase price. Now it may be asking for more than a billion.

A developing Bloomberg story says that Verizon is seeking a $1 billion discount — or a potential exit from the deal.

Yahoo is in a tough spot. They don’t want to make too many price concessions to Verizon because shareholders will be angered (and potentially sue). However, Verizon has most of the leverage and will absolutely require some discount as a condition of going forward.

One of the key assets of the deal is the Yahoo brand, which has been damaged by the two hacking episodes. Yet if the deal were to fall through and Yahoo were forced again to exist as a stand-alone company, its downward revenue trajectory would likely accelerate.


Opinions expressed in this article are those of the guest author and not necessarily Marketing Land. Staff authors are listed here.



About The Author

Greg Sterling
Greg Sterling is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land, a member of the programming team for SMX events and the VP, Market Insights at Uberall.

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