AOL plans to buy Yahoo

The U.S. internet group and investment firms, Silver Lake Partners and Blackstone Group, among others, are preparing a joint bid to take control of the popular portal, according to the newspaper 'The Wall Street Journal. For now, the talks are "preliminary" and even could be concluded "without any approach to Yahoo," Selan the newspaper, citing sources close to the possible operation.
It would also have at least two or three firms of investment that would be interested in participating in the tender and AOL plans to buy Yahoo . Two scenarios are envisaged for "the complex deal" that would buy the Internet portal.

AOL will buy Yahoo Yahoo expected first dispose of several of its assets, as 40% equity holding in the Chinese group Alibaba, valued by experts in a range of between 15,000 and 25,000 million dollars. Therefore, the percentage that could be sold, it would be up to 10,000 million. The divestiture will reduce the market value of Yahoo and facilitate the purchase and AOL plans to buy Yahoo . The second scenario is referred to a possible merger transaction between AOL and Yahoo, the latter also would get rid of its assets in Alibaba, although it is unclear, the newspaper said, if the combined company or the stock exchange would be made only by private capital. AOL Time Warner spun off the group in 2009 and has a market capitalization of about U.S. $ 2,680 million, well below the 20,560 million dollars for Yahoo.
AOL and Yahoo
While this site has been overshadowed by Google, whose capitalization is eight times higher. Yahoo shares rose 5.68% on Nasdaq in New York, where they finished the day at $ 15.25 each, which have depreciated by 9.12 so far this year, while up 10 , 49% for electronic transactions that were made after the close of the regular session AOL plans to buy Yahoo . Shares of AOL, meanwhile, rose to 3.25 on the New York Stock Exchange, where they finished the session at $ 25.12 each, which have risen 7.9% so far this year, while in electronic trading depreciated 0.48%.