Loeb Calls Again for Thompson Firing From Yahoo, as Former eBay Boss Supports Him

The back-and-forth over Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson’s fitness as a leader continues.
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Worst But First: Yahoo Uses Words of Facebook’s Zuckerberg to Poke Him in Patent Lawsuit

Even if increasingly irrelevant, being there at the start apparently has to count for something, says Yahoo in its allegations against the social networking giant.
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Mobile Wallet Venture Isis Beefs Up With More Bank Cards

Isis, the mobile payments joint venture between Verizon Wireless, AT&T and T-Mobile USA, announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today that it is adding Chase, Barclaycard and Capital One cards to the Isis Mobile Wallet. Last July, Isis announced relationships with Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express to allow account holders to pay using wireless phones with NFC “one-tap” payment capabilities. The Isis Mobile Wallet app, which will go head to head with other mobile payment solutions like Google Wallet, will first launch in Salt Lake City and Austin midyear.

Fare Play: Rivals Have Reason to Be Wary if Square Grabs NYC Cabs

Mobile payments start-up Square wants to snag New York City taxicabs — and its rivals are unlikely to keep quiet about it.
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Verizon Introduces “Convenience Fee” for Some Online, Phone Payments

There are still plenty of ways to avoid that $2 charge, however.
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Alibaba’s Jack Ma at Stanford: “We Are Very Interested” in Buying the “Whole” of Yahoo

In answer to a direct question about whether his company was going to buy Yahoo at a forum at Stanford University in Silicon Valley this afternoon, Alibaba Chairman and CEO Jack Ma said: “We are very interested” in buying all of it.
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Isis Signs Up Six Major Handset Makers for Mobile Payments Push

Isis, the mobile payments joint venture of AT&T, T-Mobile USA and Verizon Wireless, has signed up a long list of handset makers that are vowing to produce phones with embedded NFC chips that will allow people to tap to pay. The participants include HTC, LG, Motorola, RIM, Samsung and Sony Ericsson. In addition, Isis said it was working with DeviceFidelity to add NFC functionality to phones that did not originally ship with near field technology.

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Bartz — As Expected — Off Yahoo Board With a Pile of Goodbye Cash

Ousted CEO Carol Bartz has also left her seat on Yahoo’s board, the company said: “On September 9, 2011, Carol Bartz resigned from the Board of Directors of Yahoo! Inc. effective immediately.” Now, despite a nondisparagement clause and disparaging statements about the board — including calling them “doofuses” — she is in line to get more than $10 million in severance payments.

Yahoo’s China Settlement Fails to Stem Its Stock Decline

You would think the settlement of a major dispute would goose the stock of a company, but Yahoo’s deal with its Chinese partner Alibaba Group on Friday did exactly the opposite.
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China Solution: Yahoo, SoftBank and Alibaba Reach Agreement

Yahoo, SoftBank and Alibaba have reached an agreement in their contentious dispute around the Alipay payments unit.
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