AOL Advisers Present Merger Options With Yahoo

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AOL is exploring strategic ways for
the company that could include a possible
combination of assets from itself and
Yahoo, per The Wall Street Journal sources
on Sunday.

The report pointed-out a match of AOL and
at least a part of Yahoo's assets are just
one of the directions the company is
exploring through an advisory team.

"Among the scenarios being examined by
AOL are a combination of Yahoo and AOL's
online businesses after a spin-off of
Yahoo's Asian assets that would return
capital to share-holders, people familiar
with the matter said," according to the
paper. "Another scenario would have private
equity firms take a stake in the combined
operations, along with a plan to pay a
dividend to Yahoo share-holders, the people
added."

The firms mentioned by the Journal: Silver
Lake Partners and Blackstone Group, but as
many as three other groups could be included.
In Sunday's report, the paper said that AOL
held merger talks with Yahoo before, but not
this time.

AOL has talked to Yahoo before, but not with
a formal proposal.