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Evaluating Yet Another Yahoo!-Alibaba Deal … Rumor or Report?

Posted: September 12, 2012 at 9:03 am

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) is trading higher this morning on rumors and reports that the company and Alibaba are finally close to a deal that would allow Alibaba to repurchase a ...
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Why Won’t Yahoo! Do the Right Thing?

Posted: August 10, 2012 at 6:19 am

For some reason, Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) believed it had to file a document with the Securities and Exchange Commission explaining that the company's new CEO Marissa Mayer and the board ...
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What Will Yahoo! Do with Its Billions?

Posted: May 21, 2012 at 6:33 am

Alibaba will buy back 20% of its shares held by Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO). The consideration Yahoo! will get is $7.1 billion. That sum is “composed of at least $6.3 billion in ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (5/7/2012) Icahn Sells LightSquared

Posted: May 7, 2012 at 8:36 am

Updated throughout the day on the 24/7 Wall St. Wire. Carl Icahn sold his stake of troubled broadband company LightSquared (Reuters) Micron Technology won the right to negotiate exclusively to ...
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How Fast Things Change: Yahoo!’s New CEO Becomes a Liar

Posted: May 4, 2012 at 6:33 am

Investors were skeptical when Scott Thompson became Yahoo!’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) new chief executive. He was nothing more than an e-commerce expert who had run eBay’s (NASDAQ: EBAY) PayPal unit. He had ...
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A Yahoo ! Surprise?

Posted: April 17, 2012 at 6:33 am

Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) will release Q1 earnings today. They are expected to be dismal. The firm's important display ad revenue will probably contract--again. Yahoo! once dominated inventory in this sector. ...
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Can Alibaba Get Help from New Yahoo! CEO?

Posted: February 15, 2012 at 6:42 am

A team of Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) managers who were negotiating terms to sell its stake in Alibaba back to Alibaba apparently walked away from the talks, according to tech site AllThingsD. The transaction ...
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What’s Important in the Financial World (2/15/2012) Smartphone Sales Surge, Yahoo! Ends Talks

Posted: February 15, 2012 at 6:41 am

Chinese central bank leader Zhou Xiaochuan told European officials that his country will provide funds to aid the struggling nations of the eurozone. The money could come through the International Monetary Fund of the ...
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Media Digest (2/15/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, Bloomberg

Posted: February 15, 2012 at 6:41 am

China offers financial support to the fund that will be used for bailouts of the eurozone’s weakest economies. (MarketWatch) Greece is in the midst of what may be one of the deepest ...
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Media Digest (2/10/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT

Posted: February 10, 2012 at 6:40 am

The U.S. and state attorneys general reach a $25 billion settlement with five banks over mortgage abuses. (Reuters) The Hong Kong division of Alibaba may go private as part of ...
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Yahoo! and the Temptation to Merge with a Major Media Firm

Posted: January 25, 2012 at 6:37 am

Yahoo!’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) earnings were weak, which raised the matter of a business combination with Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) or Aol (NYSE: AOL) again. A more suitable merger would be with ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (12/22/2011) Yahoo! Deal, IMF Greek Deal

Posted: December 22, 2011 at 8:27 am

Updated throughout the day. Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) may sell part of its stake in Alibaba (Reuters) Creditors who own Greek bonds have pushed back at IMF requests that they take ...
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What’s Important in the Financial World (12/22/2011) Nokia Europe Sales, Toyota Record Prediction

Posted: December 22, 2011 at 6:04 am

Toyota (NYSE: TM) forecasts that it will sell 8.48 million cars and light trucks worldwide next year -- up 20% from 2011. The prediction is based on two factors. The first ...
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Media Digest (12/22/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: December 22, 2011 at 5:47 am

http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/hub.1324331373.html Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) is working on a deal with Alibaba to sell part of its stake in the Chinese company. (Reuters) Toyota (NYSE: TM) expects record sales next year ...
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What’s Important in the Financial World (12/1/2011) Yahoo! Japan, EU PMI

Posted: December 1, 2011 at 6:27 am

China’s PMI declined as the nation’s factory economy contracted for the first time in almost three years. The state-sponsored China Federation of Logistics & Planning reported its manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ ...
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