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On Monday, Yahoo’s years-long fight to survive as a standalone company will draw to a close.

Verizon Communications will announce plans to buy Yahoo’s core assets for a bit more than $4.8 billion before the market opens, said two people with direct knowledge of the situation who asked not to be identified because the information isn’t public.

The deal includes Yahoo real estate assets, while some intellectual property is to be sold separately, the people said. Yahoo will be left with its stakes in Alibaba Group Holding and Yahoo Japan Corp., with a combined market value of about $40 billion.

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