Money | Yahoo Yahoo Dumps Plan to Sell Alibaba Board moves instead to sell off core businesses By Newser Editors and Wire Services Posted Dec 9, 2015 7:11 AM CST Copied In this 2014 file photo, Yahoo President and CEO Marissa Mayer speaks during the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File) In something of an abrupt about-face, Yahoo is scrapping its original plan to spin off its prized stake in China's Alibaba Group and will instead break off the rest of its business into a new company. The change of heart announced Wednesday comes after Yahoo's board met last week to review the proposed Alibaba spin-off, as well as CEO Marissa Mayer's stalled attempts to turn around one of the Internet's best-known companies. The move is what the Wall Street Journal calls "a blow" to Mayer's turnaround, and it prolongs "the uncertainty of a 20-year-old Internet company fighting for survival." Yahoo said its board will now look at alternatives to separate the Alibaba stake, focusing specifically on a reverse spin-off. The company said in the reverse spin-off, Yahoo assets and liabilities other than the Alibaba stake would be transferred to a newly formed company. The end result would be two separate, publicly traded companies. Read These Next Her blood isn't compatible with anyone else's. Rubio says the fate of Iran's conversion facility is what matters. Iran's supreme leader makes first public comments since ceasefire. Some of the most explosive Diddy allegations are dropped. Report an error