US telecommunications rivals Verizon and AT&T are set to go through to the third and final round of bidding in the auction for Yahoo’s core internet assets.

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US telecommunications giant Verizon has confirmed its intention to buy AOL for $4.4bn (€3.9bn), turning the biggest US wireless carrier into a leading provider of content and video for the web and mobile phones.

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Here’s a run down of today’s business headlines.

Here’s a run down of today’s business headlines.

AOL has tumbled the most in nine months after CEO Tim Armstrong outlined plans to reinvest in websites, such as The Huffington Post, in a bid to reach a more global audience and be more competitive.

Social networking site Bebo has been resurrected — and it’s brought people’s embarrassing, mid-2000s photos back from the digital graveyard along with it.

Online payment systems may be a target of cyber criminals this year, warns an internet security firm.

All your old Bebo photos are coming back from the digital grave.

A Harvard Business School instructor who blasted a Boston-area Chinese restaurant for overcharging him by $4 (€3.20) on a takeaway order has apologised for an email exchange with restaurant management.

An Irish app, described as Facebook for carers, is one of 16 finalists at a massive technology competition in the UK this week.

Microsoft is finally ready to serve an assorted helping of original TV programmes made for the Xbox 360 and Xbox One.

Microsoft is finally ready to serve an assorted helping of original TV programmes made for the Xbox 360 and Xbox One.

Organisers of Career Zoo are expecting to set a new attendence record at this year's event.

Irish companies are being urged to increase their online presence to help expand their operations.

More than 10,000 people expected to attend the country's biggest recruitment event in Dublin today.

Mobile phone giant Vodafone is reportedly set to avoid paying billions of pounds in tax on its mammoth deal to exit the United States.

Vodafone has confirmed it is in talks over a deal that will see it exit the United States through one of the largest corporate transactions of all time.

The British couple who sold social networking site Bebo for $850m five years ago have bought back the company for just $1m and say they will relaunch it.

The social networking site Bebo has been sold back to the man who founded it.

A total of 220 jobs were announced yesterday.

Gwyneth Paltrow wants her own talk show.

A nomination for an award at the Global Mobile Awards at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, has proved a significant boost for Dublin start-up company Sensormind.

Microsoft is so confident it has the internet’s best email service that it is about spend at least 30 million US dollars (€22.4m) to send its message across America.

More than 3,500 jobs are up for grabs at a major recruitment fair in Dublin today.

Some of Ireland’s leading employers will gather in Dublin’s Convention Centre on Saturday to offer graduates up to 3,500 positions.

The death of the traditional games console, the blurring of boundaries between print and electronic media and an impending social media backlash all featured in yesterday’s opening session of the Dublin Web Summit.

Internet media giant, AOL Global Operations is to expand its Irish operations with the addition of 35 software engineering jobs over the next year.

Facebook and Yahoo have agreed to settle a patent dispute, averting a potentially lengthy battle over the technology running two of the internet’s most popular destinations.

AOL, the owner of TechCrunch and the Huffington Post, has reported a more than fourfold jump in first-quarter profit, which it puts down to an increase in online advertising revenue.

Microsoft, which has just bought patents from AOL for a billion US dollars (€750m), is now selling most of them to Facebook for $550m (€416m).

AOL Inc shares surged yesterday to their highest level in more than a year after it said it has agreed to sell 800 of its patents and license others to Microsoft Corp. for about $1.06bn (€800m) in cash.

Wikipedia’s decision to take a stand against US anti-piracy legislation has brought criticism from some of its own editors, who think such action threatens the site’s credibility and neutrality, says Mike Liedtke

Wikipedia blacked out the English language version of its website today in protest at anti-piracy laws being considered by the US government.

Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL are joining forces in an online advertising attack on Google and Facebook.

MICROSOFT is considering a bid for Yahoo, resurfacing as a potential buyer after a bitter and unsuccessful fight to take over the internet company in 2008.

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The Government tonight heaped pressure on TalkTalk management to delay closing its Waterford operation claiming the 30-day deadline was abrupt and unfair.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has hit out at TalkTalk management, claiming the telecoms giant should have given the Government better notice it was shutting its south-east call centre.

Some 575 workers at a major employer in the south-east are facing the dole in 30 days after telecomms giant TalkTalk dramatically announced it was shutting its call centre.