Yahoo! Are you selecting a seller of the net division, candidates Verizon · AT & T etc.

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Yahoo! suffering from sluggish performance (Yahoo.com) Rumored that personnel reduction and business strategy change, and in factFrom February 12, personnel sorting started in some departmentsAlthough it is said, apparently in the future it will be focused on "news", "sports", "finance" and "lifestyle", and other departments are likely to be crowded.

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According to the information Bloomberg got, Yahoo! I am looking for a place to sell the "core business"Verizon Communications,AT & amp; T,ComcastNet related companies such asPrivate Equity FundIsBain Capital,Kohlberg, Kravis Roberts (KKR),TPG CapitalIt seems that we are consulting the acquisition. Yahoo! · Verizon · AT & amp; T · Comcast · TPG refused to comment, Bain and KKR avoided replying.

Yahoo! Speaking of, former Google's Marissa Mayer, who has organized the CEO's organizational structure, has doubled the stock price in the first year since his appointment. In June 2013, it surpassed Google with the number of unique visitors and returned to the top of American companies.

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Mayer's CEO was chosen as one of "the strongest CEO of 2013" alongside Apple's Tim Cook, Mr. Kent of Coca-Cola, Bill Simon of Walmart and others.

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One of the reasons why this upward slanting situation was born is a Chinese IT company that invested about 120 billion yen in 2005Ali BabaIt is a success. Ali Baba's market capitalization was about 300 billion yen at the time of investment, but Yahoo! immediately In 2013 it will be Yahoo! at its dividend income. In the relationship that it will increase profit, it is to create a profit that is called "the big winner remaining in Silicon Valley history".

Yahoo! I got a cache. Aiming to strengthen the mobile field toward acquiring users,Acquired social media Tumblr for $ 1.1 billion (about 110 billion yen)In addition, · Mobile acquires Flurry of 200 million dollars (about 20 billion yen) and Summary of news aggregation service for 300 million dollars (about 30 billion yen). Yahoo! We strengthened the news application and created a weather app that Jonathan Ive admired its design.

However, when Alibaba's IPO takes place in 2014, its evaluation changes completely.

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Mayer's strategy was to invest assets acquired from Alibaba shares etc. in the mobile field but investors said that "Mayer CEO does not have the power to transform Alibaba shares into Yahoo! advertisements" I was confined. In order to make the value of this stock manifest, we will transfer the owned Alibaba stock to another companySeparation (spin-off)There was also a plan to do, but postponement has been announced at the end of 2015.

Yahoo! Postponed spin-off plan for Alibaba stock - GIGAZINE


Currently, Yahoo! Is focusing on four axes, "News" "Sports" "Finance" "Lifestyle", and we are heading to arrange others. Already, personnel sorting has begun, for example from December 2013 "Yahoo TechMr. Dan Tainan, who was editor in chief, was fired in July 2015. Ricardo Baeza-Yates, vice president of research, and Ron Brachman, chief scientist, also resigned.

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Although the prosperity just three years ago is a littling downfall, can we reopen through personnel and sector sorting?