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this is CNET and hear the stories that matter right now justice yahoo shareholders approved a four point four eight billion dollar sale to Verizon now comes news that the new company will shed about 50% of AOL and Yahoo staff members making up roughly 2,100 jobs this according to TechCrunch the deal for the new entity now to be known as both is scheduled to be completed on June 15th two new reports by Akamai and open signal that measure mobile internet speeds on an international basis show that the u.s. is 28th and 40th in speed surveys the average u.s. speed clocks in around 10 to 15 megabits per second while the average in the UK jumps to 26 it's not all bad news though the reports show that network availability is up in the u.s. a whopping 86% and speaking of mobile Internet traffic cisco says the global average Internet traffic from smartphones is about to explode forecasted to jump from 3500 megabytes per month in 2016 to almost 15,000 megabytes a month by 2021 if these metrics are reached it would mean a third of all Internet traffic on earth would be mobile based I can stay up to date with the latest by downloading the CNN tech today app in the Apple or Google Play Store