Posted on 04/11/2016 7:33:45 PM PDT by Swordmaker
The once-great Internet pioneer is entertaining offers...reluctantly. CEO Marissa Mayer would like to see Yahoo through its struggles, but impatient investors are looking for a way to cash out.
Yahoo (YHOO, Tech30) has reportedly given interested parties until April 18 to make their offers. The company is expected to fetch something like $8 billion for its core Internet business.
Who's buying?
The list of interested parties matches the potpourri of businesses that Yahoo operates.
Media companies, such as the Daily Mail and Time Inc. (TIME), are reportedly thinking of making an offer. A Daily Mail spokesman confirmed to CNNMoney that the company is looking at bidding for Yahoo.
Technology companies, such as Google (GOOGL, Tech30) and Microsoft (MSFT, Tech30), are also reportedly looking into bidding for other pieces. Though Google isn't likely to make an offer, due to antitrust concerns, Microsoft would like to preserve its relationship with Yahoo, providing Bing search results for some search queries. Microsoft had made a $45 billion offer for Yahoo in 2008, which Yahoo successfully fought off.
Verizon (VZ, Tech30) could also be a player. It owns Yahoo rival AOL and other media assets, and the company has publicly expressed interest in taking a look at Yahoo. AOL is like a mini version of Yahoo, with a sizable digital advertising and online content business. Verizon bought AOL last year for more than $4 billion.
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The way to save it was to sell it to MS.
Or perhaps go conservative like Drudge. They still would have lost value. Selling it was the correct thing to do. I was stunned that they didn’t.
The handwriting was on the wall with the rise of Google and its “partner”.
You mean, like, she's out of control, nervously running downhill?
There are far worse female laughs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orYcAiFqknU
Memo to all morons threatening to sit out this election in the event of an unfavorable primary result: ten hours << eight years!
I just noticed...I’ve been online since before Yahoo was even founded...and I have NOT ONCE visited that site in all that time...
So I guess I still won’t miss Yahoo when it’s gone...
I just canceled my ATT service at my business after 35 years largely over Yahoo for Internet. We’ve switched to Time Warner for everything.
U-verese and Yahoo have blocked my access to my own email accounts since before Thanksgiving, despite coninually raising my rates.
Yahoo would have continued to do well, if only it had built better spam filtering for their email system. Wotta POS. Thx.
lol....
Memo to all morons threatening to sit out this election in the event of an unfavorable primary result: ten hours << eight years!
And this won't come with an eight year supply of ear bleach.
Marissa Mayer $365 million 5 year compensation …
www.businessinsider.com/marissa-mayer-365-million-5-year...
Dec 14, 2015 · Video embedded · Marissa Mayer will make $365 million for 5 years of work at Yahoo
Not anymore ....:o)
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