#Vcast, 2005-2012, yet *another* failed streaming service (pray that someday you find someone who loves you as much as Verizon's C-suite loves doomed streaming services):
https://venturebeat.com/media/verizon-vcast-shutting-down/
And the daddy of them all, #Oath, Verizon's 2017, $4.8b acquisition of Yahoo/AOL, whose name refers to the fact that the company's mismanagement provoked involuntary swearing from all who witnessed the $4.6 billion write-down the company took a year later:
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