The plan for the Asian assets would involve Alibaba creating a subsidiary into which it would put several billion dollars of cash, plus an operating asset that Yahoo wants to buy using additional cash from Alibaba, almost like giving Yahoo a prepaid card for an asset of its choice, the people said.
Japan and Alibaba, a Chinese internet firm in which it has a 43% stake.
Alibaba was a local Chinese company that helped small- and medium-sized enterprises conducting business online.
More than 3, 500 watchmakers list their services on Alibaba, a sourcing website, as do 8, 000 razor-makers.
Alibaba, a giant Chinese e-commerce firm, said it had bought back around half of the 40% stake held in it by Yahoo!
Alibaba is a kind, smart business person, and he helped the village.
Alibaba announced a reorganization in January to transform its seven business units into 25 smaller divisions to compete more effectively in China's turbulent Internet market.
Alibaba prefers a friendly deal with Yahoo, but it could still revisit an alternative plan to bid for the whole company in conjunction with buyout firms if the cash-rich split-off proposal falls through, people familiar with the matter said.
The Alibaba VIE recently transferred a valuable asset (Alipay, an online-payments firm) to a local Chinese company controlled by Jack Ma, Alibaba's chairman.
Alibaba would raise a few billion dollars in additional capital to fund the purchase, these people said.
Alibaba has done a lot of press in the last 24 hours explaining why Ma is retiring now.
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Alibaba could be a good strategic fit for Yahoo given its knowledge of Yahoo and a desire to penetrate the U.S. market.
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Yahoo, Softbank and Alibaba Group issued a joint statement Sunday that is clearly addressed at trying to calm the storm over the ownership structure of the online payments company Alipay.
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Taobao, a unit of Alibaba Group, announced on Tuesday that it was beta testing a shopping search engine called Etao.
Purchases on Taobao, an online Goliath that is a division of China's Alibaba, are thought to account for a staggering 50% of all packages shipped in China.
Yahoo recently disclosed that it has been holding talks about selling a portion of its investment in Alibaba back to the company, in a move that would cheer Wall Street and given Yahoo more cash to help remake its core business.
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On Oct. 23, 2011, I wrote in this space that either Microsoft or Alibaba Group Holding, a Chinese major Internet company, will end up winning Yahoo.
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Alibaba.com, a giant Chinese online retailer for small business, is working on a plan to create a large number online businesses in the U.S., its chief executive says.
Alibaba Group has hired a Washington lobbying firm in a sign that the Chinese e-commerce company would be willing to make a bid for all of Yahoo Inc in the event that talks to unwind their Asian partnership fail.
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To review: Yahoo earlier this week disclosed that it had learned that Alibaba, in which it holds a 43% stake, had transferred ownership of its Alipay online payments business to Alibaba Group CEO Jack Ma.
In case you missed the beginnings of this, Yahoo earlier this week disclosed in an SEC filing that it had learned that Alibaba, in which it holds a 43% stake, had transferred ownership of its Alipay online payments business to Alibaba Group CEO Jack Ma.
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The transaction will establish a balanced ownership structure that enables Alibaba to take our business to the next level as a public company in the future.
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And China's internet start-ups, such as Tencent (a social-networking service) and Alibaba (an e-commerce company), have had a genius for copying Western business models and adapting them to the Chinese market.
The truth is, however, that the marriage between Alibaba and Yahoo China was a mismatch to begin with.
Jack Ma uses a website, Alibaba, to sell goods from China's thousands of corner shops to other businesses.
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As a result, Alibaba has been trying to restructure its operations to ensure that it continues to grow and dominate the market.
Alibaba recently transferred ownership of the unit to Alibaba CEO Jack Ma, a move the company said was necessary to comply with Chinese regulations barring foreign investment in domestic online payment services.
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For the first ... the time when I talked to the 18 founders, I invited all the friends of mine and the founders come to my home I talked to them that we're going to build up a company called Alibaba.com.
In a much higher profile move, the company sold part of its Alibaba stake earlier in the year, starting a highly anticipated divorce between the 2 companies.
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