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notatoad on Jan 10, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Yahoo came up with its new name: Altaba

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Neither altaba or Alibaba is a western style dot-com. That part of yahoo is being sold to Verizon. Altaba is just a holding company for Alibaba stock.

baybal2 on Jan 10, 2017 [–]

Well I had an impression that Alibaba was a party to the deal. It appears, they aren't

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