With its purchase of AOL and the launch of a new mobile video service, Verizon is clearly also a media company. And it wants that business to grow — potentially by acquiring parts of Yahoo.The woman at the helm of identifying these new businesses is Marni Walden, a telecom veteran who previously served as marketing chief and operating chief of Verizon Wireless. With a brutal price competition in the market for delivering data, Walden said it is critical that the company find businesses in addition to just moving bits and bytes.
Source: Verizon’s Marni Walden on AOL, Yahoo and Being More Than a Dumb Pipe | Re/code