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Lol. I was part of the core deal team. We did NOT know this would be the day for months and months. But of course, that does not detract from your sentiment be
by lesdeuxmagots 9y ago
Lol. I was part of the core deal team. We did NOT know this would be the day for months and months.
But of course, that does not detract from your sentiment being 100% accurate. No one planned the timing of the consummation of the deal around random contemporaneous news events.
- empath75 9y agoWell it was at least 'weeks and weeks' because I heard about this a few weeks ago and I'm a nobody :)
- SkyMarshal 9y agoDid you hear a few weeks ago that this would be announced on exactly Tuesday June 13th? Or just "soon"?
- Macha 9y agoShareholder vote + 2-3 working days has been the internal messaging for a while. The shareholder vote was scheduled months ago
- Macha 9y agoHere's a news article reporting on the date back in April: http://variety.com/2017/digital/news/marissa-mayer-yahoo-verizon-stock-1202394605/ http://variety.com/2017/digital/news/marissa-mayer-yahoo-ver... This was certainly not news on the aol side internally at least... Yahoo publicly disclosed in their SEC filings, so it wasn't even a leak or the rumour mill