Tag Archives: Alibaba Group

Before of the Bell: Yahoo Stock

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NEW YORK (AP) — Yahoo soared 8 percent in trading before the opening bell Wednesday after quarterly results showed an aggressive push into Asia and a slight pickup in advertising revenue. Still, some...

Alibaba invests in Tango

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Tango is joining the conga line of mobile messaging services that have turned into hot commodities as more people use them to communicate and share photos, music and other...

Alibaba Invests $215 Million that Helps Raise Tango $280 Million

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It’s a real good time for Tango. The social chat app has easily raised the huge amount of $280 million in its Series D round of venture funding. Actually China's giant online retailer firm AliBaba is...

Sina plans New York IPO for Weibo microblog

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HONG KONG (AP) — Chinese internet company Sina Corp. plans to spin off its Twitter-like microblog service, Weibo, in a U.S. initial public offering to raise $500 million, a person with knowledge of...

JD.com IPO May Just Be Another Dangdang of China.

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Last week, JD.com filed to IPO in the US.  Its filing is here. The filing was noteworthy for a couple of reasons. First, it was the first big Chinese company to file to hold an IPO in the US...

With Yahoo On The Ropes, Mayer can still Lead A Big Turnaround!

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Yahoo! (YHOO) is very much on the ropes and its shares have suffered a shellacking after the Internet giant posted disappointing fourth quarter results, exacerbated by an even more uninspired...

Yahoo’s 4Q results marred by revenue drop

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Yahoo's 4th-quarter results show Internet company still struggling to boost advertising sales SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo's latest quarterly report shows CEO Marissa Mayer is still having trouble...

Should Microsoft Buy Yahoo for $53 Billion?

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The last time Microsoft offered to buy Yahoo — valuing it at $45 billion, Steve Ballmer hoped that some value could be created by combining their media assets. As he said back then, “We have great...

Yahoo CEO lets go top lieutenant in surprise move

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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer parts way with top operations exec just 15 months after hiring SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is cutting loose her top lieutenant in a possible...
    






China And Russia Helping Fuel New Tech Boom

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If I asked you to name the biggest online shopping day of the year, what would you guess? Black Friday? Cyber Monday? Free Shipping Day in mid-December? Guess again. Even though Cyber Monday sales...