In 1997, Larry Page, one of Google co-founders, wanted to sell the search engine to Excite for $1.6 million: $600k in cash, $700k in stock and $300k for Stanford. This was at the very early stages ...

Verizon bought Yahoo in 2017 and AOL in 2015 for a combined $9bn. Yahoo and AOL were once trailblazers, but were subsequently overshadowed by firms like Google and Facebook. Under the sale of the ...

As Tesla struggled in 2013, the company was so close to being gobbled up by Google that Elon Musk and Larry Page shook on a preliminary deal. According to Yahoo! Finance, which obtained an excerpt ...