雅虎賣給美國電信巨頭威瑞森

BBC News – US internet firm Yahoo will be sold to American telecoms firm Verizon Communications for nearly $5bn in cash. Yahoo will be combined with AOL, another faded internet star, which Verizon bought last deal does not include Yahoo's valuable stake in Chinese firm Alibaba.

BBC新聞 – 美國互聯網公司雅虎將以近50億美元現金被賣給美國電信公司威瑞森。雅虎將與威瑞森去年收購的另一家褪去光環的互聯網明星企業美國在線組合。交易不包括雅虎在中國阿里巴巴公司頗具價值的股份。

The price tag for the deal is well below the $44bn Microsoft offered for Yahoo in 2008 or the $125bn it was worth during the boom.

交易標價遠低於微軟2008年對雅虎440億美元的出價，或網絡公司盛行期間雅虎1250億美元的身價。

Verizon said the deal for Yahoo's core internet business, which has more than a billion active users a month, would make it a global mobile media company.

威瑞森說，雅虎核心互聯網業務每月有超過10億的活躍用戶，就此達成的交易會使其成爲全球化移動媒體公司。

Marissa Mayer, chief executive of Yahoo, said: "Yahoo is a company that has changed the world, and will continue to do so through this combination with Verizon and AOL." In an eMail to staff, Ms Mayer said she was "planning to stay", adding: "I love Yahoo, and I believe in all of you. It's important to me to see Yahoo into its next chapter."

雅虎首席執行官瑪麗莎.梅耶爾說：“雅虎是一個改變了世界的公司，將通過與威瑞森和美國在線的結合繼續改變世界。”梅耶爾女士在發給員工的電子郵件中說，她“計劃留任”，並說：“我愛雅虎，我信任你們所有人。看到雅虎進入下一篇章對我很重要。”

AOL chief executive Tim Armstrong said the deal was about "unleashing Yahoo's full potential", and creating a major player in mobile media. Together they will have more than 25 brands, including Yahoo Mail, Flickr and Tumblr as well as AOL's Huffington Post and Techcrunch news sites.

美國在線首席執行官蒂姆.阿姆斯特朗說，這項交易關乎“釋放雅虎的全部潛力”，以及造就移動媒體界的一個主要玩家。合起來，兩家公司將擁有超過25個品牌，包括雅虎郵箱，網絡相冊，湯博樂以及美國在線的赫芬頓郵報和科技博客新聞網站。

Ms Mayer, who took the helm in 2012, has made little progress in returning the company to profit. Last week the firm reported a $440m loss in the second quarter, but said the board had made "great progress on strategic alternatives".

梅耶爾女士2012年執掌雅虎，在公司扭虧爲盈上進展甚微。去年，公司第二季度錄得4400萬美元虧損，但公司說，董事會“在戰略替代方案上取得大進展”。