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The smartest insight and analysis, from all perspectives, rounded up from around the web: Yahoo, "the front door to the web for an early generation of internet users," is finished as an independent company, said Vindu Goel and Michael de la Merced at The New York Times. The struggling Silicon Valley pioneer agreed this week to sell its core internet business to Verizon Communications for $4.8 billion.