Yahoo! and Geocities look to the specialists

March 01, 1999

Leading US internet company Yahoo! is acquiring GeoCities for $4.7 billion in a pooling of interests transaction. The deal will give Yahoo! the widest reach on the internet, recovering ground recently lost to America Online and Microsoft.

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