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Is Power-One up for sale? (Updated)

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| Sep 06 2012 16:02 | Comment |

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Silver Lake bids $16.60 a share for Yahoo stake

Kate is FT AV’s Asia Correspondent. She joined FT Alphaville in mid-2011 after carrying out various roles in the FT’s London office since 2005: interactive editor, companies reporter, and founding editor of the FT’s Energy Source blog.

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| Nov 30 2011 04:50 | Comment |

A group of investors led by private- equity firm Silver Lake has offered to buy a minority stake in Yahoo for about $16.60 a share, reports Bloomberg, citing people with knowledge of the matter. That would value Yahoo at about $20.6bn, or about 6 per cent higher than its market capitalisation at Tuesday’s close, says the news wire. Silver Lake is working with Microsoft and Andreessen Horowitz. Read more

THL looking at all of Yahoo US

Kate is FT AV’s Asia Correspondent. She joined FT Alphaville in mid-2011 after carrying out various roles in the FT’s London office since 2005: interactive editor, companies reporter, and founding editor of the FT’s Energy Source blog.

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| Nov 29 2011 04:56 | Comment |

Thomas H. Lee, Microsoft and Silver Lake are all reported to be looking at parts of Yahoo. Reuters says THL is interested in buying Yahoo’s US operations, in contrast to other bidders who are eyeing minority stakes or teaming up with Asian partners. Citing sources familiar with the matter, the news agency says THL is hoping to do a leveraged buyout of Yahoo’s US business, which could be worth $5bn to $6bn. Another group of firms, including Blackstone, Bain Capital and Hellman & Friedman, is in talks to team up with China’s Alibaba Group and Japan’s Softbank, the report says. Meanwhile Bloomberg says Silver Lake Partners is working with Microsoft on a bid for a minority stake in Yahoo, while Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital firm, is also weighing a possible bid, according to a person familiar with the matter. Read more

Microsoft considering bid for Yahoo

Kate is FT AV’s Asia Correspondent. She joined FT Alphaville in mid-2011 after carrying out various roles in the FT’s London office since 2005: interactive editor, companies reporter, and founding editor of the FT’s Energy Source blog.

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| Oct 06 2011 04:02 | Comment |

Microsoft is considering a bid for Yahoo, Reuters reports, citing sources close to the situation. A number of other companies including buyout shops Providence Equity Partners, Hellman & Friedman and Silver Lake Partners, and Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba and Russian technology investment firm DST Global, are also thought to be looking at Yahoo, the sources say. Yahoo is readying financial pitch books for potential buyers. Meanwhile the FT reports that Microsoft is set to win Brussels’ approval for its planned $8.5bn (€5.9bn) acquisition of online telephone service Skype, despite its previously strained relations with European competition authorities and complaints from would-be rivals over Microsoft “bundling” the software with Windows. The US Federal Trade Commission approved the deal in June. Read more

About those Yahoo buyout rumours

| Oct 14 2010 10:25 | Comment |

Shares in Yahoo are blazing in pre-market trading:

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Yahoo buyout rumours fly

Joseph joined FT Alphaville way back in March 2010. He likes all the politically and legally fiddly bits of finance. He also likes credit, rates, global macro, tail risk, and all that stuff. (You should email him story ideas. He’ll take anything.)

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| Oct 14 2010 09:28 | Comment |

AOL could be on the verge of teaming up with private equity firms including Blackstone and Silver Lake Partners to buy up Yahoo, sources have told the WSJ. But the complexity of any buyout might yet scuttle the talks, which remain at a preliminary stage with no Yahoo involvement so far. One of the scenarios under consideration is for AOL to combine with Yahoo in a reverse merger while China’s Alibaba buys back the 40 per cent stake Yahoo holds in it, Reuters reports, noting additional private-equity overtures to Newscorp. Yahoo has meanwhile taken on Goldman Sachs advisers to help it avoid a takeover, Bloomberg adds. But sector watchers think a deal would be far too complex to pull off, to say nothing of regulatory risk, FT Alphaville cautions. Read more

Buy-out groups close in on IDC

Tracy Alloway used to be deputy editor of FT Alphaville. Here she learned the details of derivatives, the absurdities of accounting and the various structures of ... erm ... structured finance. She now covers big US banks for the FT paper, including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. She pops up on FT Alphaville every once in a while.

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| May 04 2010 03:12 | Comment |

Warburg Pincus and Silver Lake Partners were close to an agreement on Monday night on a buy-out of Interactive Data, in a deal valuing the publicly traded financial information company controlled by Pearson at more than $3bn, reports the FT, which is owned by Pearson. The announcement could come as early as Tuesday morning and would mark one of the biggest private equity deals since the credit crisis began. Read more

Silver Lake swooping for Tandberg?

| Jul 16 2009 15:05 | Comment |

Norway’s Tandberg has been quite a-stir of late, with rumours swirling around the market that someone might be lining up an offer for the world’s biggest video-conferencing equipment producer.

Now, with Tandberg reporting second quarter earnings later on Thursday, chief executive Fredrik Halvorsen will have the chance to clear things up once and for all. Read more