Marissa Mayer's Yahoo is being given the cold shoulder as it tries to take control of the popular French website, Dailymotion.
LONDON (CNNMoney)
The veto is the latest in a series of episodes that have undermined France's reputation as a place to invest and cast doubt on its claims that it is 'open for business'.
Industry minister Arnaud Montebourg told CNNMoney that he didn't want Yahoo (YHOO, Fortune 500) taking a majority stake in Dailymotion, a website that is likened to Google (GOOG, Fortune 500)'s YouTube.
Montebourg said he hoped a deal could still be reached where each side would have a 50-50 stake in Dailymotion. Yahoo had originally been insisting on a larger piece of the pie.
The French government owns a 27% stake in France Telecom (FTE), which owns Dailymotion through its Orange brand.
"We don't want to sell Dailymotion, we want to work hand-in-hand with Yahoo," Montebourg told CNNMoney. "We want a win-win situation - in other words - a partnership."
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Yahoo would not comment on the status of the talks. Orange said in a statement it has been talking to various potential partners over the last few months as it seeks a strategic partner outside Europe to develop Dailymotion's reach.
Some reports say this would have been Yahoo's largest deal since Marissa Mayer took over as CEO in July 2012.
While the French government veto is a setback, it isn't a make or break situation for Yahoo, said Aaron Kessler, an analyst at Raymond James.
"There's obviously a lot of assets out there. Yahoo needs to continue to diversify, but it's hard to say that Yahoo's success would be based on just one acquisition," he said.
Dailymotion is amongst the biggest video websites in the world, receiving well over 100 million unique monthly visitors each month. Revenues grew by 55% in 2012.
Yahoo been trying to regain its status as a top internet property but has been struggling since its heyday in the late 1990s and early 2000s -- despite seven different CEOs.
It has recently made a handful of small acquisitions, dubbed 'acqui-hires' because they were focused on scoring the technical talent in the target company's workforce.
--CNN's Saskya Vandoorne contributed to this article. 
First Published: May 2, 2013: 10:41 AM ET
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