Kara Swisher in News on May 17 at 11:39 pm PT
Could the never-ending Yahoo-Alibaba deal finally be close to a handshake? Yes, indeedy.
Kara Swisher in Commerce on May 17 at 9:29 am PT
The $1.5 billion valuation can still blow your mind.
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Daisuke Wakabayashi, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 11 at 5:30 am PT
Panasonic Corp. said Friday its net loss in the fiscal fourth quarter grew more than tenfold from a year earlier, as ongoing struggles at its television operations and a tax-related charge pushed the Japanese electronics conglomerate to its biggest annual loss in its 77-year history.
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Kelly Olsen and Juro Osawa, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 10 at 5:30 am PT
After reporting a net loss of $5.7 billion for the last fiscal year — its fourth annual loss in a row — Sony Corp. said it expects to swing back to a profit this fiscal year as its consumer-electronics and component businesses recover.
Kara Swisher in News on May 9 at 6:00 am PT
There are pretty good odds, but it’s a gamble for the activist investor to find a way to top his last act.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on May 8 at 9:04 pm PT
Late this evening, PayPal unveiled a multimillion-dollar joint venture with SoftBank, an Internet and telecommunications provider in Japan, to work together on the future of digital payments there.
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Daisuke Wakabayashi and Juro Osawa, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 8 at 1:20 pm PT
As a Japanese government investigation questions the legality of mobile videogames like those from Gree Inc. and DeNA Co., a snapshot is emerging ofboththe promise and risk of the nascent social-network games business, an industry that offers a new model of success for Japan’s flagging technology sector.
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Loretta Chao and Josh Chin, Staff Writers, The Wall Street Journal in Social on April 28 at 10:23 am PT
Chinese microblogging site Sina Weibo may be in the midst of its most aggressive crackdown yet following an explosion of political rumors among users, but it is still beating Tencent in the microblogging race in China, according to a McKinsey & Co. report released this week.
Kara Swisher in News on April 17 at 2:06 pm PT
New Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson is making list and taking names.
