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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.

 

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.

 

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