Verizon may acquire Yahoo for a bargain after email hack disaster

James Covert, Claire Atkinson
Fri, 16 Dec 2016 01:42:34 -0500

Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer is getting hacked into a corner. The 40-year-old tech exec and her board will likely be forced to slash the price of a $4.8 billion merger with Verizon if they hope to save the deal — as a massive, 1 billion-user email breach has “devastated Yahoo’s leverage at the bargaining...