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Yahoo spin-out Altaba is selling its entire Alibaba stake and closing down

Jon Russell
Updated
Yahoo spin-out Altaba is selling its entire Alibaba stake and closing down

The Yahoo spin-out created to house Yahoo's lucrative stake in Alibaba and Yahoo Japan announced today that it will sell its lucrative stake in Alibaba and shut up shop. The entity has long existed as a proxy to Alibaba -- some might argue Yahoo was the same in its final years -- and the sale is expected to net shareholders around $40 billion. Altaba was formed following Verizon's 2017 acquisition of Yahoo to create Oath -- disclaimer: that's TechCrunch's parent, and it is now called Verizon Media Group -- to keep hold of the 15 percent stake in Alibaba and a 35.5 percent stake in Yahoo Japan that Yahoo owned.

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