Yahoo Discussing Plan to Cut Alibaba Stake to 15 Percent

Yahoo Inc. is discussing a plan to cut its stake in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. to about 15 percent as part of a tax-free transaction valued at between $17 billion and $18 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.

’Twas the Deal Before Christmas? — A Holiday Poem for Yahoo

Board members were nestled all smug in their heads, With visions of $31-a-share that had long since been dead.
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Exclusive: Silver Lake Finally Signs Yahoo NDA, as Talks Proceed With Bidders

Aggressive private equity firm signs on the secret dotted line it said it would not. Of course.
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Yahoo: Center of Global Chess Game

As Yahoo Inc. maps out its future, a new plan has emerged for the fate of its overseas investments, which are the critical part of any deal to sell the company.

Any Time You’re Ready, Yahoo

We’ve been working with Yahoo for years to buy a portion of them or buy them out. Money is not the problem. The problem is what Yahoo wants to do.

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Jack Ma: Highlights From AsiaD (Video)

Alibaba’s Jack Ma sat down with Peter Kafka at AsiaD, our inaugural international conference, for a broad conversation that touched on philanthropy, pricing and, of course, Yahoo.
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Alibaba’s Jack Ma: Make Up Your Mind, Yahoo

Alibaba’s CEO says he’s ready to buy all or part of Yahoo, just as soon as the company’s board figures out what it wants to do. But he says he won’t wait forever …
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Yahoo’s Jerry Yang: There Are Plenty of Options Beyond Sale

Speaking at AsiaD, Yahoo’s co-founder says that the company should be growing faster than it is, but says selling the company isn’t the only option for creating shareholder value.
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Yahoo’s Jerry Yang: “We Want to Be the Premier Digital Media Company”

This time, the Internet giant’s co-founder had an answer ready.
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The Globalization of D: All Things Digital Begins Now

And so our international expansion of D: All Thing Digital starts and we could not be more proud that it begins here in Hong Kong, with AsiaD. So why Asia? It seemed the most obvious choice for us, as we looked at the global landscape for tech.
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