How Much is Yahoo Worth?

So Yahoo is trying to sell its core business as well as a bunch of patents that it owns. Analysts have thus far been pricing these assets around US$6 to 8 billion. Meanwhile, certain news commentators have suggested that Yahoo is looking at a price of sound US$10 billion.

Meanwhile, bids by AT&T and Dan Gilbert are at US$5 billion for Yahoo's core business, patents and real estate.

Verizon has put in a lower bid but that is without the patents.

There are other bidders and some news outlets have reported that sources indicate that bids are ranging between US$4-8 billion.

Temasek and GIC buy Alibaba

Singapore's Temasek Holdings and GIC have each bought $500 million worth of Alibaba shares at a price of $74 each from Japan's Softbank. Softbank has been unloading its Alibaba shares in order to strengthen its balance sheet. While it initially wanted to raise $8.9 billion, this has since increased to $10 billion.

Alibaba is China's greatest e-commerce company listed on NYSE. Alibaba is itself buying back $2 billion of shares from Softbank at the same price of $74 per piece.