{"id":24599,"date":"2017-01-10T12:22:18","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T06:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/officechai.com\/?p=24599"},"modified":"2017-01-10T12:33:56","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T07:03:56","slug":"yahoo-renamed-altaba-jokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officechai.com\/news\/yahoo-renamed-altaba-jokes\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo Renamed Altaba By Verizon And The Twitter Jokes Recount Its Sad Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">It&#8217;s truly the end of an era with Yahoo being officially over. Its beleaguered CEO Ex-Googler Marissa Mayer has left the company with a $55 million severance package and the new<span style=\"color: #33cccc;\"> <a style=\"color: #33cccc;\" href=\"https:\/\/officechai.com\/news\/yahoo-verizon-sale\/#sthash.UXjEfjHa.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\">owners <\/a><\/span>Verizon have decided to do away with the name Yahoo. Yahoo has been renamed &#8216;Altaba&#8217;, and the internet has some strong reactions on the oddball name.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">1. Because Altaba also happens to be a prescription drug.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/mat\/status\/818590261961863168<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">2. Are we sure it&#8217;s Verizon and not Alibaba that&#8217;s bought the company?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/mohanstatsman\/status\/818662576204562433<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">3. \u00a0Verizon&#8217;s paid \u00a0for $4.83 Billion for Yahoo&#8217;s core business.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Altaba is Arabic for &quot;set money on fire.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rudy Havenstein, Senior Markets Commentator. (@RudyHavenstein) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RudyHavenstein\/status\/818621867422404608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 10, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">4. \u00a0Ouch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/rameshsrivats\/status\/818707069230403584<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">5. &#8230;but Google is worth $495 billion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/surfperch\/status\/818701533965479936<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">6.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/vexmark\/status\/818596775246331904<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">7. Remember the millions of compromised emails?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/markmilian\/status\/818599479909568512<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">8. 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