Next year will probably be the year that Yahoo! sells something to someone. Yahoo! will either be partly owned by a private equity group or Yahoo! will sell its stake in Alibaba and Yahoo! Japan to its partners.

With private equity groups looking for a possible acquisition of Yahoo! and partners in Asia looking to acquire Yahoo’s stake in their businesses. Yahoo! stock also has not shown much signs of life. Yahoo! will probably be bold and do a lot of things in 2012 to get the stock up.

Yahoo! Inc., has a market capitalization of $20 billion dollars at the time this article was published. The bulk of Yahoo’s market capitalization is believed to be mostly made up of Alibaba and Yahoo! Japan stakes.