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Verizon is reportedly looking to knock as much as $1bn off the price it will pay for NSA mail-sorter Yahoo! A report from the New York Post cites unnamed sources in reporting that Verizon is seeking a reduction in the agreed acquisition price in the wake of the two latest scandals to hit the beleaguered Purple Palace. An …

  1. allthecoolshortnamesweretaken

    I've posted this already in another thread, but why doesn't the NSA simply buy Yahoo! and run it itself? They could even expand it to offer cloud services.

    They have the money, they have the technical expertise - actually, they would probably actually improve Yahoo!'s services and performance.

    Apparently the average computer user doesn't give a fuck about beeing snooped, slurped and data mined to the hilt anyway, so why not be straightforward about it.

  2. Doctor Syntax Silver badge

    Did you get that right? Maybe it's not $1bn it want's knocking off, but just the bn, as in $4.8.

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