Mysterious group wants to buy Yahoo, ask Yahoo co-founder to join Yahoo-Yang-IT information

In July, the core assets of a mysterious group tried to buy Yahoo, Yahoo co-founder David Filo (David Filo) had considered joining the Group and participate in the bidding.

According to a document submitted to regulators on Friday, a group referred to as the Sponsor f invited David Filo added to help the Group's acquisition of Yahoo's core assets. David Filo said he is willing to bid to acquire Yahoo talks.

"Mr Luo had said he would be happy to take the form of equity participation involved in negotiating a takeover bid, regardless of whether the bid was brought by Sponsor f or was brought by another bidder, as long as bidders willing to invest in the company's strategic efforts to maximize shareholder value in the selection process. "The document said.

The paper did not say whether David Filo bid. Details of the bid but it did disclose the Sponsor f: basic purchase price of $ 4.35 billion, targets do not include Yahoo's intellectual property assets or immovable property.

Sponsor f initially with another group called the Sponsor e a joint bid, but Sponsor e exit. So, Sponsor to seek help from David Filo. It is not clear which companies Sponsor f is, but it could be a financial company, company involved in the bidding because the file is called "strategic bidders."

David Filo owns 7.4% shares of Yahoo and is a member of Yahoo's Board of Directors. David Filo publicly expressed interest in joining after the Sponsor f, he had to drop out then all of Yahoo's Board of Directors meeting.

In 1994 with David Filo Jerry Yang co-founded Yahoo, then they are Jay United States Stanford University students. Yahoo began as a simple Web Guide, called "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web (Jerry and Dave's Guide to the World Wide Web)", and later changed its name to Yahoo.

Files submitted on Friday said that Yahoo had initially negotiated with 51 companies, to sell its core Internet business. Finally, Verizon wins the bid, with approximately $ 5 billion acquisition of Yahoo's Internet business.

神秘集团曾欲收购雅虎，邀请雅虎联合创始人加入 - 雅虎,杨致远 - IT资讯

今年7月，一个神秘集团试图收购雅虎的核心资产，雅虎联合创始人大卫·费罗（David Filo）曾考虑加入该集团并参与投标。

根据周五递交给监管机构的一份文件，一个简称为Sponsor F的集团曾经邀请大卫·费罗加入，以帮助该集团收购雅虎的核心资产。而大卫·费罗也表示他乐意就参与投标收购雅虎事宜进行谈判。

“费罗先生曾经表示，他将乐意就以参股形式参与一项收购雅虎的投标进行谈判，无论这项投标是由Sponsor F提起的还是由另一个投标人提起的，只要投标人愿意在公司的战略选择过程中努力实现股东价值最大化。”文件中说。

这份文件没有说明大卫·费罗最终是否参与投标。但它确实披露了Sponsor F的投标详情:基本收购价格为43.5亿美元，收购对象不包括雅虎的知识产权资产或不动产。

Sponsor F最初与另一个称为Sponsor E的集团联合投标，但后来Sponsor E退出。于是，Sponsor转而寻求大卫·费罗的帮助。目前还不清楚Sponsor F到底是哪个公司，但它可能是一个金融公司，因为文件中将参与投标的公司称为“战略投标人”。

大卫·费罗拥有雅虎7.4%的股份，并且是雅虎董事会的成员。在大卫·费罗公开表示有兴趣加入Sponsor F之后，他不得不退出雅虎随后所有的董事会会议。

大卫·费罗在1994年与杨致远共同创建了雅虎，当时他们还是杰美国斯坦福大学的学生。雅虎最初只是一个简单的网站指南，称为“杰里和大卫的万维网指南（Jerry and Dave’s Guide to the World Wide Web）”，后来更名为雅虎。

周五提交的文件里说，雅虎最初曾与51个公司谈判，以出售其核心互联网业务。最后，Verizon在竞标中获胜，以大约50亿美元的价格收购了雅虎的互联网业务。