Private equity firm Silver Lake is leading a group of investors including Microsoft and VC firm Andreessen Horowitz in a bid to buy a minority stake in internet giant Yahoo, reports Bloomberg. The bid is around US$16.60 per share according to Bloomberg sources, which values Yahoo at around US$20.6 billion, 6 percent higher than its market capitalisation at yesterday’s close of trading. Reuters reports that Thomas H Lee Partners is interested in buying Yahoo’s entire US operations in a leveraged buyout that would be worth between US$5 billion and US$6 billion.