Greg Sterling says, “Yahoo released fourth quarter and full year earnings this afternoon, beating analyst expectations. The company announced $1.47 billion in Q4 revenue and $5.2 billion for the full-year.

The company also said that the Verizon deal, which was supposed to close in the first quarter, will now close in the second quarter:

Yahoo has continued to work with Verizon on integration planning for the sale of its core business. In terms of timing, Yahoo had previously stated that it expected to close the transaction in Q1. However, given work required to meet closing conditions, the transaction is now expected to close in Q2 of 2017. The company is working expeditiously to close the transaction as soon as practicable in Q2.

The delayed closing is likely related to the fallout from two massive hacking episodes reported after the acquisition was announced in July last year. Verizon was reportedly using the disclosures to negotiate a $1 billion price concession from Yahoo”.

Yahoo beats Q4 earnings expectations, pushes closing of Verizon deal into Q2

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