There's even a Yahoo Speedcubing group where cubers share techniques and solutions online.
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Here is part of the reason why Yahoo is cheap and would be an enticing target: its cash hoard and minority stakes in Chinese conglomerate Alibaba Group and Yahoo!
Ma says he would like to get back some of the shares of Alibaba Group from Yahoo and Softbank.
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It seems likely to me that there are more discussions going on at the moment between Alibaba Group and Yahoo!
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Charles Golvin, principal analyst at the market researcher Forrester Group says Yahoo!
Yahoo also has access to millions of consumers via email and their popular homepage, along with relationships and information on a vast pool of local merchants through its Yahoo small-business group.
In addition, foreign investors have large stakes in several of the large Chinese Internet firms, including Alibaba Group (Yahoo and Softbank together own a majority) and Tencent (South African media firm Naspers owns 35%).
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The consortium that is making a push for Yahoo is the same group that went out and bought Skype from eBay and turned around and flipped it to Microsoft, and in the process they made a lot of money.
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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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He has been a member of the same Web community since the late 1990s, when his group defected from the Yahoo!
Let Softbank have 20% of Alibaba Group and 25% of Yahoo!
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An international media watchdog group is accusing Internet giant Yahoo!
If Microsoft became a minority partner in Alibaba Group as well as the new Yahoo!
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On May 11, Yahoo disclosed in an SEC filing that Alibaba Group had transferred ownership of its Alipay online payments business to Alibaba CEO Jack Ma.
Masa Son will also likely be able to get in on the action due to his 30% stake in Alibaba Group and his 40% stake in Yahoo!
Yahoo (YHOO) currently owns 24% of Alibaba Group, even after reducing its stake earlier this year.
With a Yahoo buyback in sight, and full control over the group, founder and CEO Jack Ma can focus on building an even better engine for online trade.
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Cispa has also secured the backing of several technology firms, including the CTIA wireless industry group, as well as the TechNet computer industry lobby group, which has Google, Apple and Yahoo as members.
Our relatively small group was accurately credited with forcing the change at Yahoo!
The operation of Etao further marginalizes Yahoo's Chinese website, which is operated by Alibaba Group and has seen its market share drop to less than 1%, from 21% in 2005, under Alibaba's supervision.
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At the moment, Yahoo consists of its core business that new CEO Marissa Mayer has been focusing on improving, its 35% stake in Yahoo Japan, and its remaining 24% stake in Alibaba Group.
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Yahoo Japan Corp. gained 1.7% following news that Yahoo Inc. co-founder Jerry Yang was leaving the boards of both Yahoo-named firms, as well as Chinese Internet major Alibaba Group, the parent company of Alibaba.com Ltd.
There's even a Yahoo (nasdaq: YHOO - news - people ) Speedcubing group where cubers share techniques and solutions online.
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Now Flickr's tagging technology, a kind of group rating on which photos are most popular, is moving into other Yahoo functions.
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, China's biggest e-commerce group, has seen its profits nearly tripled, according to a regulatory filing by shareholder Yahoo.
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