Yahoo will hold a press conference to announce the sale of or related matters, Ma on Friday when a guest of Stanford University made it clear ---
on Yahoo's board fired former CEO when Bartz the industry on the analysis of Yahoo's move is to pave the way for the sale, but Yahoo has not been a positive response. Yahoo will hold a press conference, analysts believe that the conference will sell content or related matters.
Ma guest on Friday in Stanford University, said that for the acquisition of Yahoo, Alibaba Group, is very interested in, this is his first for the acquisition of Yahoo matters clear. He also hinted that Alibaba is not satisfied to participate in a consortium in the acquisition, but hope to acquire Yahoo as a whole, although this process is very complex.
recently said Alibaba will conduct an initial public offering, foreign private equity market is expected to be between Ali Baba 40 billion to 60 billion U.S. dollars. Yahoo still holds a 39% stake in Alibaba, Alibaba acquired Yahoo, if you can not only recover their shares in the U.S. market will get Yahoo's millions of users.
Alibaba acquired Yahoo for negative factor is the transfer of shares Alipay incident caused tension in bilateral relations exception, in addition to the company was sold to a major shareholder of his company, for Yahoo, from the emotional on some difficult to accept. But Yahoo shareholders seems, everything is business, if Ali Baba's asking price attractive enough, eager to get rid of the Yahoo shareholders will be welcomed.
as Ma clearly expressed interest in buying Yahoo, Yahoo now has the list of potential acquirers, including Microsoft, private equity firm Silver Lake, the Russian investment company DST, and the newly added Face Alibaba. As of last Friday's close, Yahoo's stock price to $ 13.17, market value of $ 16.63 billion.
three years ago, Microsoft had $ 44.6 billion offer to acquire Yahoo, but Yahoo's board was rejected. Yahoo are not doing the past few years, shrinking market, but its U.S. business assets for most companies is still quite attractive. Analysts expected the company if Yahoo launched a takeover bid, the purchase price should not be less than $ 16.63 billion. |
