Fortune:Â Verizon has reached a tentative labor agreement that could get around 40,000 striking employees back to work. It also could make it more likely that the telecom giant buys the core Internet assets of Yahoo, via an auction process that includes rival bids from AT&T, Quicken Loans founder Dan Gilbert and multiple private equity firms. To be clear, there is no direct financial relationship between the two. Instead, this is about public relations.