back to article Alibaba! and! friends! offer! to! swallow! Yahoo! whole!

China's Alibaba Group is mulling over a total slurp of Yahoo! for about $25bn, along with private equity partners and Japanese mobile carrier Softbank. Those chatty sources familiar with the matter told Reuters that the group – which would also include Bain Capital and Blackstone Group – had not finalised its bid yet. Jack Ma …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    Pint

    if yahoo gets sold

    I expect the name will remain (that's part of what they're buying, after all) but I hope I can rely on ElReg to! keep! with! the! exclamation! marks! thing?

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Sure

      If it's funny once, it's got to be funny a couple thousand times.

      1. Chris Parsons

        And let's face it, it wasn't funny the first time.

  2. Steve Davies 3 Silver badge
    Paris Hilton

    Someone with Bigger pockets than MS?

    Paris

    Sometimes even she knows when the prices is a 'rip-off' and I don't mean clothes.

  3. Bucky 2
    Joke

    What I know about Chinese hosts

    If the deal goes through, Yahoo will be full of poorly-spelled malware.

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Yahoo?

    Ya who?

    Is this the 90's again?

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Ya who?

      Dunno, I had to google it to find out.

  5. John King 1

    Yahoo = ?

    What exactly would they get buying Yahoo? 10 million email addreses, Flickr and a search engine nobody uses?

    Seriously, I am interested to know what exactly they get for $25bn.

  6. Hud Dunlap
    Facepalm

    Ali Baba and the forty thieves?

    Who was the genius in China who came up with that name?

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