 and waiting for Alibaba to buy it in a tax-free transaction. (Alibaba says it has no plans to do this, but most people do not believe this).</p> 
   <p data-para-count="129" data-total-count="3073">The rights of Yahoo shareholders in this sale will be different from those in an ordinary sale, when an entire company is bought.</p> 
   <p data-para-count="560" data-total-count="3633">Ordinary sales are done in one of two ways: in a merger where the target is merged into a subsidiary of the buyer and the targ