But the jests stopped about six months ago, when the Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O) co-founder and former CEO put away his golf clubs and began showing up on a daily basis at the Internet company's headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, according to a high-ranking Yahoo executive.

Now, Yang is interested in a deal with private equity firms that would take the $20 billion (12.8 billion pounds) company off public markets, according to people familiar with the situation.

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