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Alibaba May Re-Evaluate Its Ties With Yahoo

September 9, 2010 at 10:59 am PT

Yahoo owns 40 percent of China’s Alibaba Group, but since Yahoo Hong Kong’s Managing Director Alfred Tsoi Po-tak was quoted Monday as saying that the company wants to lure smaller mainland advertisers onto its site, the relationship has entered questionable territory. The move would put the two companies in direct competition, and as such, the alliance would need to be re-evaluated, according to John Spelich, a spokesman for Alibaba Group. Yahoo couldn’t be reached for comment.

Tagged with advertisers, advertising, Alfred Tsoi Po-tak, Alibaba, Beth Callaghan, China, digital, economy, frontpage, Hong Kong, Internet, mainland, newsbyte, software, Yahoo

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I’m thinking that Yahoo will eventually merge with Microsoft. It has the worst time with its own possible collaborations, because the Yahoo executive team is always shifting its priorities. AOL was like this, and it really is not the company it used to be. Watch for Yahoo to change substantially within the next 4 months.

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