Yahoo!'s days as an independent company
appear to be numbered. Following Carol Bartz' removal as CEO, more than one investor has shown interest in acquiring it:
- Jerry Yang, Peter Chernin
- Andreessen Horowitz, Silver Lake, Canada Pension Plan Investment board, Hellman & Friedman, DST, Bain Capital, Providence, Blackstone
- News Corp, Walt Disney
- Glam Media, Alibaba, AOL
- Microsoft, and now Google
Google's involvement has some interesting implications (apart from the obvious sale of assets and restructuring):
- Combining Google Search with Yahoo! Search, i.e. the former Inktomi and Overture Services.
- Will antitrust regulators approve such a deal?
- Google would most likely end the Yahoo!/Microsoft partnership, which would be bad news for Bing.
- Combination of Google TV and Yahoo! Connected TV.
- Flickr would become part of Google.
- Gmail and Yahoo! Mail must be hard to combine.
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