It’s official: Verizon finally takes over Yahoo

(Yahoo stock peaked at over $400 a share, for a market cap of $111 billion, during the dot-com boom.
CBS MoneyWatch)
Verizon has taken over Yahoo, completing a $4.5 billion deal that will usher in a new management team to attempt to wring more advertising revenue from one of the internet’s best-known brands.
Tuesday’s closure of the sale ends Yahoo’s 21-year history as a publicly traded company. It also ends the nearly five-year reign of Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, who isn’t