​A worker carts away a piece of a Yahoo billboard in San Francisco in 2011.Where did half a trillion dollars go? AOL and Yahoo have been sold once again: This time private equity firm Apollo Global Management is buying them from Verizon for $5 billion. It’s a paltry sum for a pair of companies that were once valued at more than $475 billion combined.

Source: Digging in the dust of AOL and Yahoo’s lost internet empires