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发帖数: 29576 | 1 Yahoo announced Wednesday that it would spin-off its core business into a
separate, publicly traded company, a move that could make its popular but
tired Web properties more attractive to suitors.
Members of Yahoo's board said in a statement that they were abandoning a
previous plan to spin-off Yahoo's massive and valuable stake in Alibaba, the
Chinese e-commerce company, amid concerns that the deal would incur steep
taxes on Yahoo. Those shares are estimated to be worth $35 billion.
Instead, company officials said they were exploring a "reverse spin-off" of
Yahoo's substantial Web properties, which include search, email, media and
advertising units. By creating a separate company, the value of those
businesses would be more apparent to investors -- and easier to sell.
"A separation from our Alibaba stake, via the reverse spin, will provide
more transparency into the value of Yahoo's business," said chief executive
Marissa Mayer.
Yahoo's board chair Maynard Webb added in a conference call with investors
that there has been “no determination by the board to sell the company or
any part of it.”
Despite having one of the largest online reaches in the United States -- 210
million users visited the site last month, comparable to Facebook or Google
-- the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Yahoo has been struggling to figure out how
to translate its audience in a way understood by advertisers, investors or
the public.
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