Amir Efrati, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 9 at 8:10 am PT
New Chief Executive Scott Thompson’s plan for turning around Yahoo Inc. is beginning to take shape: He wants to push the Internet company away from its advertising roots and get more of its revenue from fees and commissions, according to people familiar with the matter.
Prudence Ho, Staff Writer, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 8 at 9:12 pm PT
Chinese Internet giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is in the process of raising a US$3 billion loan from around six banks to buy back the stake that Yahoo Inc. owns in the company, people familiar with the situation said Thursday.
Thomas Catan and Ian Sherr, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on February 8 at 3:48 pm PT
The U.S. Justice Department is poised to clear Google Inc.’s $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. as early as next week, according to people familiar with the matter, giving Google a powerful armory of technology patents to deploy in the smartphone wars.
Ian Sherr, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on February 8 at 5:30 am PT
Apple Inc. has asked a telecommunications standards body to set basic principles governing how member companies license their patents, an increasingly contentious topic for rivals in the smartphone industry.
Amol Sharma, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 6 at 10:30 am PT
Google Inc. removed some controversial content from its Indian services to comply with a court order in a civil lawsuit, the latest twist in the legal drama over Web censorship in the world’s largest democracy.
Kara Swisher in News on February 6 at 5:45 am PT
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