RENEE MONTAGNE, host: NPR's business news starts with a possible offer for Yahoo.</s>RENEE MONTAGNE, host: AOL and several private equity firms may make an offer to buy Yahoo. Both AOL and Yahoo have struggled to compete against Google for Internet advertising. This isn't the first time Yahoo has been in play, Microsoft tried to buy the search engine two years ago for nearly $50 billion. Yahoo snubbed the offer then. The company won't fetch nearly as much today. These days, Yahoo is valued at less than $25 billion.
AOL and several private equity firms may make an offer to buy Yahoo. Both AOL and Yahoo have struggled to compete against Google for Internet advertising. Microsoft tried to buy Yahoo two years ago for nearly $50 billion. But Yahoo snubbed the offer then.