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<p>Verizon Media Group is laying off workers as it struggles to compete in the media market.</p>

Verizon lays off 7 percent of its media workforce

As rivals AT&T and Comcast expand their media businesses, Verizon struggles to find its footing.

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<p>A member of staff shows iBook G3, release date May 2001, with Apple IIe, release date January 1983, on the background, at MacPaw's Ukrainian Apple Museum in Kiev, Ukraine on January 26, 2017. Ukrainian developer MacPaw has opened Apple hardware museum at the companys office in Kiev. The collection has more than 70 original Macintosh models dated from 1981 to 2017. (Photo by Oleksandr Rupeta/NurPhoto via Getty Images)</p>

Google Search turns 20. Here's what the internet was like back then

From 56K to designated internet time on the family computer, we look back at our earliest internet memories.

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Interneting 20 years ago: Our precious memories

On Google Search's 20th birthday, we take a look back at our earliest memories of the internet. (Yes, that includes the family computer too.)

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<p>Oath CEO Tim Armstrong.</p>

Verizon internet boss Tim Armstrong to leave Oath

K. Guru Gowrappan will become the new boss of Oath next month.

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<p>Facebook released answers Friday to questions posed by members of Congress in April that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg couldn't answer at the time.</p>

Facebook acknowledges it shared user data with dozens of companies

The social network had agreements with 61 companies, ranging from AOL to UPS to dating app Hinge.

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<p>AIM is gone, but a group of hobbyist programmers has brought it back.</p>

AIM is back, but it doesn't remember you

AOL's dead Instant Messenger platform has been resurrected as the fan-built AIM Phoenix.

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Logging off AIM: Our fondest AIM memories

Five months since AOL Instant Messenger officially died and we're still in mourning. So we waxed nostalgic about our embarrassing screen names and more.

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<p>AIM is going away, retiring Dec. 15, 2017.</p>

AOL Instant Messenger said 'g2g' so here are our favorite AIM memories

AOL's AIM messaging platform has been officially dead for five months. But it'll always be alive in our hearts.

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<p>The largest hack in history just got three times worse for Yahoo.</p>

Yahoo is making it harder for users to sue

A class action waiver and mutual arbitration clause are two big changes for Yahoo users as the site integrates further into the Verizon Oath family.

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Yahoo and AOL want to read your emails, NASA's planet hunt

In today's news, Yahoo's and AOL's ad-targeting drive is reflected in a new privacy policy, NASA hunts for exoplanets and Waymo applies to test fully driverless cars.

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<p>The hacks at Yahoo compromised more than 1 billion user accounts.</p>

Yahoo and AOL just gave themselves the right to read your emails (again)

Though Yahoo was already scanning its users' emails to maximize ad opportunities, doubling-down on the policy could raise eyebrows in a post-Cambridge Analytica world.

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<p>Disney, home of the "Star Wars" and Marvel franchise, agreed to buy most of 21st Century Fox last month. &nbsp;</p>

At CES, giants old and new battle over TV's future

CES draws the tech obsessed to gawk at fancy televisions, but media movers and shakers are focused on the programming that ends up on those displays.

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