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According to AllThingsD.com's Kara Swisher, Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) Chief Executive Officer Scott Thompson is planning a company wide restructuring that could see thousands of Yahoo employees being laid off. Swisher cited numerous unnamed sources with knowledge of the planned layoffs who said that...

That's the question everyone is asking. But will we ever get an answer? If this Dealbook report is accurate, Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) board members could be meeting this Thursday to discuss an offer from Alibaba Group and Softbank. The two entities are eager to gain at least a portion of Yahoo!'s...

Was AOL (NYSE: AOL) smart to run, or is Alibaba smart to stay? The frequently rumored AOL-Yahoo merger may not have come true, but it seems that Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) could still be acquired by another entity. According to Bloomberg, Alibaba Group has teamed up with Softbank to begin advanced...

There was an article on Reuters over the weekend that former Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) CEO and co-founder Jerry Yang was looking to buy the company, and take it private. This begs the question: what does the former CEO see in the U.S. operations that no one else does? Yang wants to take the company...

Over the weekend, we learned that Alibaba CEO Jack Ma had expressed his interest in buying Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO), as Yahoo owns 39% of the Chinese Internet company. Today, we got a report that Silver Lake, Alibaba Group, and Russia's Digital Sky Technologies are in serious talks about a potential...

Last week, it was written that Alibaba CEO Jack Ma could potentially be interested in taking over Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO). Over the weekend, Ma confirmed those interests, saying he would be very interested in taking over Yahoo as a whole. As such, shares are higher today, gaining more than 5%, one...

Since it was first announced in early September that Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz was fired, and Third Point's Dan Loeb had acquired a large stake in the company, there have been rumors swirling about who was going to eventually acquire the company. With last night's news that Chinese...

Yahoo's board finally had enough with Carol Bartz, and moved to fire her on Tuesday after market closed. Investors, who had had enough with Ms. Bartz as well, gladly bid Yahoo's stock up 6% on the news. The market had high hopes with Ms. Bartz when she joined Yahoo! two years ago, but ultimately...

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) shares are moving on news that Dealreporter has written a story that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) executives are interested in potentially leaving Microsoft to bid for Yahoo's stakes in Alibaba and Yahoo Japan.

eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) has signed a new pact with Alibaba.com. Alibaba is China’s largest e-commerce firm. Under the new agreement, Alibaba will use eBay’s (NASADQ) PayPal network to offer e-payment service on its online commerce platform. Alibaba has recently launched a new wholesale website called...