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Verizon Introduces “Convenience Fee” for Some Online, Phone Payments

Lauren Goode in Commerce on December 29, 2011 at 1:33 pm PT

There are still plenty of ways to avoid that $2 charge, however.

Alibaba’s Jack Ma at Stanford: “We Are Very Interested” in Buying the “Whole” of Yahoo

Kara Swisher in News on September 30, 2011 at 4:00 pm PT

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

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on September 27, 2011 at 10:28 am PT

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

Kara Swisher in News on September 11, 2011 at 9:16 pm PT

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

Kara Swisher in News on July 31, 2011 at 12:48 pm PT

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.

China Solution: Yahoo, SoftBank and Alibaba Reach Agreement

Kara Swisher in News on July 29, 2011 at 4:50 am PT

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

Murdoch & Son Visit Parliament and Return With a Big Helping Of Humble (and Shaving Cream) Pie

Kara Swisher in Media on July 19, 2011 at 6:36 am PT

News Corp. CEO and majordomo Rupert Murdoch tells British lawmakers he is sorry on the “most humble day of my life”, survives a surprise attack and loses his jacket. Other than that, the hearing turned into a what didn’t the Murdochs know and when didn’t they know it Q&A session.

Another One Bites the Dust: Yahoo Shares Dip as Einhorn Sells Off Stake

Kara Swisher in News on July 8, 2011 at 10:23 am PT

It all started off so well. But not for long, in the case of David Einhorn’s high-profile hedge fund Greenlight Capital, which today dumped an investment it made earlier this year in Yahoo on high hopes of the value of the Internet giant’s stake in China’s Alibaba Group.

The James Franco of the Internet — Jack Dorsey of Twitter and Square: The Full D9 Interview (Video)

Kara Swisher in D9 on July 5, 2011 at 6:43 am PT

Jack Dorsey has certainly had a multi-faceted career, from plotting bike messenger routes to inventing microblogging giant Twitter to his newest payment start-up, Square. But what he really wants to do is…

Bad Share Day: Yahoo Stock Limp After Investor Day (and Google’s Swiping of Its Ad Title)

Kara Swisher in Media on May 26, 2011 at 12:07 pm PT

Apparently, reassurances about its relationship with Chinese partner Alibaba Group and some lively presentations by top execs at a six-hour investor day yesterday did almost nothing for Yahoo shares. Neither did a report showing Google unseating Yahoo as the display ad market leader.