Fairly brilliant from the Daily Mails perspective if they can raise the cash. They are growing in the US/internationally (if I am not mistaken) and taking over the yahoo front page would supercharge their growth in news and fantasy sports. Add to that the ad-tech / ad-sales. Sell off any other potentially valuable assets (tumblr, flickr, ..) shutter the rest and have some massive layoffs.

Obviously an awful fate for Yahoo, though.