The Daily Dose

After acquiring Yahoo for nearly five billion dollars, Verizon’s plan is slowly coming into focus. During an earnings call today, the telecom giant — that just got giant-er — wants to create a juggernaut that can directly compete with the likes of Google and Facebook in the mobile video space. “Content creators and advertisers are hungry for more alternatives,” Verizon’s chairman and CEO Lowell McAdam said. “Verizon intends to be a significant player in this space.” It’s easy to write off Verizon’s plan. It did, after all, just acquire another company that was once at the forefront of our collective…

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