>opportunity
Yes. If Verizon is smart they will leverage their ability to put Yahoo apps on every cellphone on their system. Yahoo did this when they teamed up with the baby Bell SBC for ISP service back when dialup was still the norm. Everybody got a co-branded Yahoo email account, etc. Problem was Yahoo was too bloated to really take advantage of that window of opportunity before everybody switched to broadband. Still it is a chance.
>Debbie
Debbie is probably right. Although I'm thinking we are in a change mode in Internet history: Google is slowly losing its grip as gatekeeper, Apple is no longer innovative disrupter, everything seems to be increasingly running along on inertia rather than charging ahead under power of Warp Engines, so the Internet seems ripe for some new hard charging disruptive tech or service. I just don't see Verizonhoo rising to that level.