Microsoft eyes new bid for Yahoo

MICROSOFT is considering a bid for Yahoo, resurfacing as a potential buyer after a bitter and unsuccessful fight to take over the internet company in 2008.

Microsoft joins a host of other companies looking at Yahoo, which has a market value of about $18 billion (€13.5bn) and is readying financial pitch books for potential buyers, sources said.

Those companies include buyout shops Providence Equity Partners, Hellman & Friedman and Silver Lake Partners, as well as Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba and Russian technology investment firm DST Global, the sources said.