Verison investors do not look very exited.
Honestly, I don't think the majority move down in VZ today is due to the YHOO takeover. It seems most interest-rate sensitive equities today like utilities and other telcoms are selling off too. Also, $5B is actually kind of "small" in relation to VZ's market cap.
Verizon will really get a good resource as Yahoo, I would even say a valuable resource. And I also guess that it will be a new improved service with a new name. Well, during the time we'll see it.I guess yahoo and AOL services will be joined together under a new name.
Biggest value is traffic and advertisement. At this moment all mobile Verizon users are mostly hammered by adds from Goggle AddVords. Mobile advertisement is grooving and it make sense for mobile service provider make some money on mobile adds instead of giving everything away to Google,