Verizon Sees AOL-Yahoo as Platform for New Video Streamer

Variety: The long and tortuous sale of Yahoo’s internet business to Verizon is expected to close around the middle of June. And once the deal is completed, Verizon would use the combination of Yahoo and AOL — with a total of 1.3 billion users — as the “platform… to test out an over-the-top service,” said Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam.