[hrodriguez]

> it may have actually cared about Yahoo's disastrous data breaches and its cooperation with the NSA. But because is Verizon, the cooperation with the NSA and the spying infrastructure being already in place is probably why Verizon didn't want to cut too much from the price.

Exactly what I was thinking. Verizon seems more desperate than Yahoo. Been trying to figure out what a phone company wants to do with these online user accounts. The only thing I can come up with is data-mining, surveillance and data-sharing. This seems to be what motivates those in power these days. It's about control.

I just don't see a telephone company getting excited about email, news feeds, Yahoo Answers and some of the other properties available for it's own sake.

The next question is: how deep is Verizon into surveillance already and, aside from marketing and ads in a business they know little about, what their ultimate goals are?