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AOL's Armstrong Reportedly Wants To Sell To Yahoo

AOL's Armstrong Reportedly Wants To Sell To Yahoo

From the department of weird ideas: AOL CEO Tim Armstrong is apparently out peddling the idea that the company could sell itself to Yahoo. Question is, what makes him think Yahoo is buying? Reuters is reporting that Armstrong has been meeting with shareholders in recent weeks pushing the notion that an AOL/Yahoo combination could result ...

Senh: I could see how this could work, but like what everyone else said - how can two sinking ships float? If each of them can't make this work individually, how can they make it work together. It would be better if Yahoo just buy AOL's star properties individually (Techcrunch and other tech sites) and leave the rest (Huffington Post). Merging the two will just sink both companies.

 

Yang eyes Yahoo buyout with private equity

Yang eyes Yahoo buyout with private equity

For the last few years, a widely circulated joke about Jerry Yang was that he had the best tan in Silicon Valley from all the time he spent on Stanford University's golf course.

 

Exclusive: Microsoft considers bidding for Yahoo: sources

Exclusive: Microsoft considers bidding for Yahoo: sources

Microsoft Corp is considering a bid for Yahoo Inc, resurfacing as a potential buyer after a bitter and unsuccessful fight to take over the Internet company in 2008, sources close to the situation said on Wednesday.

 

Alibaba CEO 'Interested' in Buying Yahoo

Jack Ma, chief executive of Chinese Internet company Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, told an audience at an event at Stanford University that he was "interested" in buying Yahoo Inc.

 

Buying Yahoo Is A No-Brainer For Alibaba

Buying Yahoo Is A No-Brainer For Alibaba

Today at the China 2.0 conference at Stanford, Alibaba Groups’s Jack Ma replied to a pointed question about buying Yahoo with, “We are very interested in Yahoo. Our Alibaba group is important to Yahoo and Yahoo is important to us … All the serious buyers interested in Yahoo have talked to us.”

Senh: What a turn of events. If anything, I thought Yahoo would be the ones buying Alibaba. Now, it's the other way around.

 

Third Point appeals to Yahoo founder Yang for change

Third Point appeals to Yahoo founder Yang for change

Yahoo Inc shareholder Daniel Loeb appealed to the company's co-founder Jerry Yang to fire Chairman Roy Bostock and several other directors to revive the Internet media company after years of poor performance.

 

Bartz resigns from Yahoo board

After being fired, Bartz gave an inflammatory interview to Fortune magazine in which she characterized Yahoo's board as "doofuses" who "fucked me over".

 

Yahoo: Third Point Takes 5.15% Stake; Seeks Board Revamp

And so it begins. After Yahoo this week gave CEO Carol Bartz the axe, the stock rallied on the suspicion on the Street that the company almost certainly has now been put into play, and might not last very long with its current corporate structure.

 

Board: Bartz Failed on Many Fronts

The sudden ouster of Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz wasn't triggered by one specific factor, but rather because Ms. Bartz wasn't reaching a series of performance targets.

 

Softbank to Sell Most of Yahoo Stake

Softbank said it will pocket a handsome profit by repaying a $1.135 billion loan from Citibank with most of its 4% stake in Yahoo.

 

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