Marvel and Sony have confirmed to the publication that "delicate preliminary conversations" are under way, but it's so early that any potential team-up will not happen in the near future--it would be a "few years from now".
Much depends on villain spin off from Drew Goddard called "The Sinister Six"-out November 11th 2016. The hope is the upcoming film about the Spidey villains can boost the franchise. If it fails, the mag says only then will we likely see talks between Sony and Marvel take offcrossover.
There's also another issue - Marvel already makes most of the toy and merchandise coin from the franchise, and they have plenty of other characters to occupy their own schedule. With Marvel's slate already filled out through to the end of the decade, even if they landed the rights shortly after "Sinister Six" they probably wouldn't be able to get a fully fledged Marvel Spider-Man film up and going for at least another a few years after that.
Meantime, Badass Digest reports that Sony may well use the "Sinister Six" film as a "soft reboot" of the franchise with a freshly re-cast Peter Parker joining forces with the title villains to "take down a larger threat." As a result, a straight up new "Spider-Man" film may be off the table for longer than the targeted 2018 date set "The Amazing Spider-Man 3".
I really hope Andrew Garfield sticks around a bit longer in the role--Despite the overall negative reviews for Marc Webb's "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" (my review) I liked the film--and Andrew's portrayal
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