Verizon gives AOL-Yahoo mash-up an even sillier name: Oath

Chris Merriman
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Someone was paid good money to come up with possibly the worst rebrand in history

When Yahoo was founded back in the mid-1990s its founders, Jerry Yang and David Filo, insisted that it stood for "Yet Another Hierachical Officious Oracle".  However, Yahoo's new parent company,...

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