we also have the alibaba steak. there's quite a lot to do. overall. there's the operating business of how do we provide the service to a billion users every month. everything from mail to our home page and news, search, sports, finance. and how do we manage these large assets that we have in china and japan. charlie: so the board has decided to do what? to have conversations about selling the core assets? marissa: yes. well, obviously as you can imagine, the alibaba asset has grown to be really large. inside of yahoo!. and one of the things we're looking at is how do we create the most value for shareholders? and one of the elements of that is really around how do we get alibaba into an entity by itself. because by doing that we unlock all kinds of opportunities in terms of tax efficiency, in terms of greater valuations, etc. and so one of the things we endeavored to do in 2015 was a forward spin. taking our alibaba stake and turning it into its own separate company. we decided to pause that plan. now we're looking at, can we do a reverse spin or coul