After the two past-their-prime internet pioneers combine, a new name is apparently on deck.
Yahoo is reportedly getting a new name.
The Yahoo brand that we’ve known for two decades may be going away.
After the company’s internet business merges with AOL under their parent company Verizon, the new brand will reportedly be called Oath. Business Insider first reported the news Monday.
AOL head Tim Armstrong seemed to confirm the name in a tweet, though technically he doesn’t mention Yahoo or AOL by name. Just in case, CNET has reached out to Yahoo and AOL for clarification.
If Armstrong’s tweet is indeed about the merger, it will have been a long and bumpy road that led to Oath. In July, Yahoo agreed to sell its internet operations — which includes iconic sites like Yahoo search and mail as well as its advertising tech — to Verizon for $4.83 billion.
But Verizon wavered on the deal after Yahoo disclosed two massive cyberattacks. One of them, which occurred in 2014 and was revealed in September, affected 500 million user accounts.
