The company Microsoft is interested in acquiring search business Yahoo!, Wrote in a British Sunday newspaper The Times. Assets valued at 20 billion dollars. Leadership of both companies reached an agreement on key items of the deal, said the newspaper.
In addition, Microsoft plans to support the new team of managers Yahoo!. It is expected that key posts in the company will take Jonathan Miller, former general director of AOL, and Ross Levinson, formerly head of Fox Interactive Media.
The Times notes that the Microsoft proposal to buy the search business does not mean another attempt to takeover Yahoo!. In the case of the successful completion of the transaction the company will remain content services, e-mail and instant messaging.
Note that the November 7 general director of Microsoft Steve Balmer said that the company has no plans to return to negotiations on full or partial purchase of Yahoo!.
In May 2008, the Board of Directors of Yahoo! Microsoft refused to acquire the company for 44.6 billion dollars. May 18, Microsoft again sat at the negotiating table and offered to buy back the search business Yahoo!. This round of talks also failed.
Recently, Yahoo! left one of the main developers of search engine Shawn Sachter. Until then, it was announced the departure of the company's general director Jerry Yang.
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