Silver Lake

Silver Lake's co-founder Glenn Hutchins appeared on CNBC earlier and gave his outlook on the markets. Hutchins said that he though the market was a bit overbought, and that he believed investors were getting a little too exuberant. He stated that investors should be careful about what they are...

Jefferies maintains its Buy on Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) as the company fields several acquisition offers. Jefferies says, “A group of investors led by PE shop Silver Lake reportedly offered to buy a minority stake in Yahoo! Inc. for about ~$16.60 a share, equal to a 15% voting stake (~$3.1...

Over the weekend, we learned that Alibaba CEO Jack Ma had expressed his interest in buying Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO), as Yahoo owns 39% of the Chinese Internet company. Today, we got a report that Silver Lake, Alibaba Group, and Russia's Digital Sky Technologies are in serious talks about a potential...

Business Insider, the Wall Street Journal and others are reporting that KKR (NYSE: KKR), Silver Lake, and a third investment group are set to acquire GoDaddy.com for $2.5 billion. Previously owned by Qatalyst Partners, the domain name giant has been up for sale for more than nine months. Business...

Obviously by now, everyone knows that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has purchased Skype for a whopping $8.5 billion. Microsoft said it will use Skype's functionality in the Xbox game console, Outlook email program and Windows smartphones, and will continue to be supported on other platforms. In...