Verizon exploring a possible bid for Yahoo’s assets

AOL CEO Tim Armstrong in Sun Valley, Idaho in July 2015.

Verizon 'U.S.  telecom giant' is considering buying Yahoo company.

According to report, Verizon Communications has given Tim Armstrong, chief executive officer of its AOL unit, a leading role in exploring a possible bid for Yahoo’s assets. Citing a person with knowledge of the situation.

Verizon bought AOL in a $4.4 billion deal to push into targeted advertising and mobile video earlier this year. .
Verizon, the largest U.S. wireless carrier, hasn’t hired bankers to conduct an offer and there have been no formal talks.

Yahoo said last week that it would consider “strategic alternatives” for its core Internet business, even as it continues with its plan to revamp the business and spin it off.

Yahoo’s core business, which includes popular services like Yahoo Mail and its news and sports sites, could attract private equity firms, media and telecom companies or firms like Softbank Group Corp, analysts had said.

Verizon’s chief financial officer Fran Shammo said in December that the U.S. wireless carrier could look at buying Yahoo’s core business if it was a good fit.