The computer giants Google and Microsoft are among the possible candidates to buy Yahoo, after the poor performance of the popular web portal, according to the Wall Street Journal. Rumours about Microsoft's interest in Yahoo from afar.
Microsoft, already made a bid for Yahoo in 2008 by 47,500 million, is in talks with private equity firm Silver Lake Partners and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board through a mixture of preferred shares and bonds, although the transaction price has not transpired.
Bill Gates's company currently has an agreement with Yahoo to develop a search engine altogether. At the same time, the financial newspaper indicates that Google would have analysed the acquisition of Yahoo, also through private equity firms. However, Google executives are aware that one such operation would cause a more than possible investigation by the federal government for possible harm to competition and monopoly.
Rumours about the sale of Yahoo have soared last week after the results of the popular Web site that showed a profit drop of 26% in the third quarter of this year, for the same period in 2010. In addition, the surprise dismissal of the CEO, Carol Bartz, in September and had shown the nervousness and uncertainty within Yahoo at the inability to adapt to market changes. Currently, Yahoo has a market value of approximately 20,000 million.
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