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This infobox entry is presented as a current corporate fact, but AOL stopped trading publicly more than a decade ago. In Verizon's SEC tender-offer filing announcing completion of the merger, the filing states that all AOL shares would be delisted from the New York Stock Exchange and would cease trading after Verizon completed the acquisition on June 23, 2015. So listing AOL as currently "NYSE: AOL" is incorrect.

The article's infobox gives "5,600" as AOL's employee count without any historical date, implying it is a current figure. But Bending Spoons' 2026 prospectus, which includes audited carve-out financial statements for the acquired AOL business, states that as of December 31, 2025, the AOL business had approximately 214 direct employees. That is nowhere near 5,600, so the employee count shown here is inaccurate as a current AOL figure.

This sentence gets the closing date wrong. Verizon's SEC filing for the following year states that Verizon completed the sale of Verizon Media on September 1, 2021. So describing the transaction as having been completed "at the end of August" is inaccurate.

This sentence confuses the signing of the deal with the completion of the acquisition. Bending Spoons' 2026 prospectus states that it entered into a definitive agreement to acquire AOL Holdco I LLC on October 29, 2025, and that the acquisition was completed on January 2, 2026. So saying Bending Spoons "acquired AOL" in October 2025 is incorrect; October 2025 was the agreement date, not the closing date.

The timing here is wrong. AOL was bought by Verizon in 2015, but Yahoo's operating business was not acquired and combined with AOL the next year. Verizon's own announcement says its Oath subsidiary, which houses AOL and Yahoo, launched at the close of Yahoo's acquisition on June 13, 2017. So the merger with Yahoo did not happen in the "following year" (2016); it happened in 2017.