Google and Microsoft to buy Yahoo

Rumors are fired on the sale of Yahoo after the fall of 26% of its profits in the third quarter of 2011.

Microsoft had made a bid for Yahoo in 2008.

Google is aware that a purchase transaction would involve a federal government investigation for possible harm to competition.

Yahoo has a market value of 20,000 million dollars.

The computer giants Google and Microsoft are among the possible candidates to buy Yahoo , after the poor performance of the popular web portal, according to the newspaper reported Saturday Wall Street Journal.

Microsoft, already made a bid for Yahoo in 2008 by 47,500 million dollars, would be in talks with private equity firm Silver Lake Partners and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board through a mixture of preferred shares and bonds , although the transaction price has not transpired.

Bill Gates's company currently has an agreement with Yahoo to develop a search engine set.

Google comes in.

At the same time, the financial newspaper indicates that Google would have analyzed the acquisition of Yahoo , also through private equity firms.

However, Google executives are aware that one such operation would cause a more than possible investigation by the federal government for possible harm to competition and monopoly.

The rumors about the sale of Yahoo have soared this week after the results of the popular Web site that showed a profit drop of 26% in the third quarter of this year, for the same period in 2010.

In addition, the surprise dismissal of the CEO , Carol Bartz, in September and had shown the nervousness and uncertainty within Yahoo at the inability to adapt to market changes.

Currently, Yahoo has a market value of approximately 20,000 million dollars (about 14,400 million euros).