The two largest US telcos are in competition to acquire Yahoo, as both look to stimulate new growth by developing their own content and services. AT&T has made a bid, according to reports, but Wall Street still sees Verizon as the frontrunner to buy the ailing internet business. Turning to content, when growth and margins on connectivity are under pressure, is a tactic which operators adopt periodically, but rarely with much success. The mobile portals of the late 1990s, the experiments with mobile TV, the attempts to secure the upper hand over SIM-based services like NFC m-payments – in all cases and more, only a few operators, mainly in Japan and Korea, have made a significant business out of content…