Why the Alibaba Spin-Off Is Under Attack from This Activist Investor

Activist hedge fund and key Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) shareholder Starboard Value LP has thrown a major snag in the company's Alibaba spin-off plans. Starboard is pressuring Yahoo to halt the $20 billion Alibaba spin-off and instead sell its sputtering Internet business. Here's what Starboard wants Yahoo to do instead.... Tags: (Nasdaq: YHOO) , Alibaba spin-off , Alibaba spinoff , Alibaba Stock , BABA spinoff , yahoo Alibaba , yahoo Alibaba stake , yahoo spinoff , yahoo stock , yahoo stock price , YHOO Stock To get full access to all Money Morning content, click here About Money Morning: Money Morning gives you access to a team of ten market experts with more than 250 years of combined investing experience – for free . Our experts – who have appeared on FOXBusiness, CNBC, NPR, and BloombergTV – deliver daily investing tips and stock picks, provide analysis with actions to take, and answer your biggest market questions. Our goal is to help our millions of e-newsletter subscribers and Moneymorning.com visitors become smarter, more confident investors. Disclaimer: © 2015 Money Morning and Money Map Press. All Rights Reserved. Protected by copyright of the United States and international treaties. Any reproduction, copying, or redistribution (electronic or otherwise, including the world wide web), of content from this webpage, in whole or in part, is strictly prohibited without the express written permission of Money Morning. 16 W. Madison St. Baltimore, MD, 21201. The post Why the Alibaba Spin-Off Is Under Attack from This Activist Investor appeared first on Money Morning - We Make Investing Profitable .