yahoo started out as verry and dave's guide to the world wide web. how can we be that guide in the modern-- and how can we be that modern version of that. we've come so far. i'm really proud of our progress but there's still a lot more to do. and on the other side we have some tremendous assets. we have a large stake that yoo yahoo japan. we also have, as you machined, the alibaba steak. and so there is quite a lot to do overall. there's the operating business of how do we provide this service to a billion users every month, everything from mail to our home page news, search, sports, finance. and how do we manage these large assets that we have in china and japan. >> so the board has decided to do what? to have conversations about spelling the core-- selling the core assets. >> 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 its