verizon, the american telecommunications company, is ready to take over the internet pioneer for $5 billion how did yahoo end up this way and what comes next? let's have a look at the opportunities the company missed over the years. >> yahoo was a colossus in the early days of the internet but has failed to adapt to changing times. while the takeover bid by verizon will be welcome, it marks a fall from grace. the company heat its peak in the early 2000's dot-com bubble, when valued at $125 billion. as google wooed internet users away with minimalist interface and fast search results, yahoo fell behind. microsoft offered to snap it up in 2008. today's offer is the full stop on a decade and a half of missed opportunities. as part of its catalog of errors, the company passed up chances to buy both google and facebook. while it did acquire a valuable piece of chinese e-commerce firm alibaba, this will not be part of the deal with verizon. the takeover will unlock yahoo's advertising technology tools which verizon can combine with the data of their over 100 million customers. it's not the end of

telecommunications to the energy sector. we have seen at&t invest in the telecommunications sector. there is going to be a large bid for the offshore rigs that is coming in mexico. american companies will be interested. part of the debate is should american companies be investing overseas. is that good for us in this globalized world? i think it is important to take this on head-on, which is why is it good for america when at&t invests in mexico? sec. gutierrez: because then at&t has access to the mexican market, which means they sell more. hopefully it means they make more. if they make more, their shareholders are making more money. they can hire people in the u.s. they pay more taxes if they make money overseas, as we know. there are circumstances where they would pay more taxes to the u.s. just put it this way. i have never seen or known of a country that has been successful economically and has sought self-sufficiency. they have looked internally and produce everything we consume and we don't want to have trade. that would take this economy into a serious dive, you know? that is where the rhetoric, the trump rhetoric is so alarming. if there are two things that have helped th