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Sources said Monday, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer (Marissa Mayer) and Jack Ma, Alibaba Group Chairman of the Board will be invited to attend the Allen in Sun Valley, Idaho, & Co. Media Summit (hereinafter "Sun Valley summits").
Sources say, those two is set to participate in this year's Sun Valley Summit. Alibaba is expected in August this year in the United States through a initial public offering, or will be the United States the largest initial public offering in history. Yahoo currently holds around 23% stake in the Alibaba group.
As the media and entertainment industry executives to participate in the annual event, in recent years the technology industry giants have started to attend the Sun Valley Summit, it also reflects the technology industry is now the mergers and acquisitions and initial public offering markets hit. Although not an official project, but trading has been a highlight of Sun Valley Summit.
In 1995, Disney sure would buy Metropolitan for $ 19.5 billion United States Broadcasting Company (Capital Cities/ABC);
In 1999, Time Warner and United States online at Sun peak reached 186 billion dollars in merger and acquisition transactions;
At last year's Summit in Sun Valley, Jeff Bezos (Jeff Bezos) acquisition of the Washington Post.
Mayer led Yahoo had completed 12 acquisitions this year, while investors had hoped for a initial public offering of Alibaba group, the valuation of the company is expected to reach $ 168 billion. Billionaires Bloomberg data shows, MA personal net worth reached $ 12.6 billion, the country's fourth-richest person.
In February, Facebook in a $ 16 billion deal to buy WhatsApp, the Investment Bank Allen & Co. served as the former adviser. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (Mark Zuckerberg) is a regular Summit in Sun Valley. In an initial public offering last November, Twitter, Allen & Co. are joint stock company among the underwriters.
Up to now, the Allen & Co. for this year's Sun Valley Summit delegates declined to comment. Alibaba and Yahoo spokesmen were noncommittal on the report.
Mayer switched from Google to Yahoo two years ago, tried to revive troubled Yahoo. After taking office, Mayer has continued to provide support of Yahoo media, which includes digging to United States well-known news anchors kaidi·Keli grams (Katie Couric), and the New York Times technology columnist David Pogue wrote before (David Pogue).
New faces
Technology industry at this year's Sun Valley Summit new faces will include online trading Gallery Shutterstock founder qiaoen·oulinji (Jon Oringer), Cloudera CEO Tom Reilly (Tom Reilly), as well as Chairman of Pandora bulaien·maikeandelusi (Brian McAndrews).
By Allen & Co. Sun Valley hosted the Summit, always inviting to the world's most successful business leaders, on a range of topics such as energy self-sufficiency, professional sports hold a special meeting. This year's Sun Valley Summit scheduled to be held from July 8 to 13th.
