It's not rare to spin-off/resell an unwanted part of a business after an M&A, assuming the company is not up for sale by the slice in the first place. A studio

It's not rare to spin-off/resell an unwanted part of a business after an M&A, assuming the company is not up for sale by the slice in the first place. A studio could buy Yahoo for their content platform and either spin-off the search platform, more likely try to resell it to either Microsoft or Google. Of course it's easier said than done...