Google compete with Microsoft to buy Yahoo!

The U.S. group plans to carry out an offer to purchase its competitor, nine other private equity firms are considering the acquisition of concrete
"Google has made agreements with two private equity firms to help fund the agreement, this allows you to acquire the core of Yahoo! ', however Google is evaluating the situation has not been confirmed yet walks on this next purchase, are also interested in the same Microsoft.

Google will buy Yahoo

Yahoo! does not have the emrpesa CEO because he recently said goodbye to Carol Bartz abruptly in early September, to whom the board of the group blamed for not having achieved the goals that Yahoo had this year and also for not having a substantial increase of turnover and advertising revenue of the firm.

The company currently Yahoo buyback was offered by the Chinese company Alibaba, which is dedicated to selling different products through its online store, which is the main shareholder, which requested an immediate response for any delay would be detrimental to both companies.
Microsoft also tried to buy it in 2006 without success. The current bid the place associated with Silver Lake Partners and a Canadian pension fund.

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%.

Yahoo loses three executives

Three top executives of Yahoo Inc. is leaving the beleaguered Internet company in an exodus that could embarrass the CEO Carol Bartz, as it nears the end of their second year trying to inject dynamism into the company.
Yahoo revealed on Thursday departures at night, thus confirming unofficial versions published on the Web site All Things Digital technology.Executives who are leaving are: Hilary Schneider, executive vice president for advertising for Yahoo in the U.S., David Ko, senior vice president in charge of the mobile audience, and Jimmy beep, vice president of producing sections of Yahoo more visits: news, sports and finance.
"These are some of the most important business," said stock analyst at Standard and Poor's Scott Kessler. "It's definitely going to put more pressure on Carol Bartz," he said and the yahoo executives.

Yahoo loses three executives

Bartz, known for his brash and sometimes profane language, has been cutting costs to try to find ways to make people spend more time on Yahoo's portal rather than online social networks and the yahoo executives.for rapid growth such as Facebook and Twitter.In these efforts, Bartz abandoned all hope to catch Google Inc. in the lucrative Internet search market. Most of the search technology the company was sold to Bing, Microsoft Corp.

Yahoo Executives

Although analysts have applauded Bartz to impose more discipline on Yahoo, the strategy has paid few dividends. Advertisers are spending more on Google and Facebook, leaving Yahoo at a financial impasse that began with his two predecessors, former movie mogul Terry Semel and company co-founder Jerry Yang and the yahoo executives..

Yahoo! sell its 1.14 percent in Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba

The U.S. multinational Yahoo! sell its 1.14 percent in the Chinese giant Alibaba.com, one of the largest global e-commerce websites, almost two years after the Chinese company went public, media reported Wednesday in Shanghai.

Yahoo! expected to dispose of such participation by nearly 150 million dollars (102 million), today announced the official newspaper "Shanghai Daily".

Nevertheless, Yahoo still controls 40 percent of matrix Chinese portal, Alibaba Group, since October 2005 the Chinese group, which last week celebrated 10 years since its founding, seized all shares of the local version of the American company, Yahoo! China.

At that time, Yahoo! paid more than 1,000 million for its investment in Alibaba Group, but now available for sale of 57.48 million H-shares of Alibaba.com on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, share prices reflecting between 4 and a 6.4 percent discount to their value at market close yesterday.

The Alibaba Group, which controls 74 percent of Alibaba.com, recovered 1.14 percent and that kept Yahoo! from the portal's IPO in November 2007, which at the time was the largest initial public offering (IPO) of the sector from that of Google on the NYSE Nasdaq in 2004.

"We are delighted with the decision of Yahoo!" Said John Spelich, vice president of corporate affairs of the Alibaba Group.

"Having more control of Alibaba.com, with increased liquidity and support of our major institutional investors, Alibaba.com is what we hoped to achieve when freed his main investor," he said.

Spelich was referring to the move of last July when released Alibaba.com major investors in its IPO in 2007 then signed commitment not to sell their shares until at least November 2009.

Shares in Hong Kong portal precipitated the crisis last year, but have been recovering since 2009 and have nearly quadrupled since January.

In August, the Alibaba Group announced the restructuring of Yahoo! China, which separated the classified ads portal for transfer to Taobao.com Koubei.com its eBay-style portal.

Both the portal as a business group that emerged around them were founded by former English teacher Ma Yun (Jack Ma internationally known as) that he has surrounded himself with an aura of charismatic and visionary entrepreneur who has made it famous in the Chinese business world.