Jack Ma

Yogi Berra is famous for his skill with the Yankees, as well as some of his "Yogisms" in which he says nonsensical things that have somehow made their way into pop culture. Now you can apply a "Yogism" to the world of finance. Last night, a tweet from Wall Street Journal reporter Anupreeta Das...

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...

Shares of Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) were up this morning on news of a deal between itself, Alibaba Group, and SoftBank over AliPay. In the press release it says: The agreement establishes the following: "The agreement preserves the existing relationship between Taobao and Alipay. Alipay will...

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.

It wasn't long ago that Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz noted on an earnings conference call that she would have some news for investors regarding the Asian assets that the company had long held on its balance sheet. Management gave the impression that a monetization of these assets, which...

A group of private equity investors has reportedly contacted Alibaba founder Jack Ma about joining a bid to acquire Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO), the second-largest U.S. Internet search engine. California-based Yahoo owns 40% of Alibaba, China's largest e-commerce company, but the two firms have had an...