Ron Haruni submits: According to reports from Bloomberg, Alibaba.com, China’s largest e-commerce website whose biggest shareholder is Yahoo! Inc YHOO, is willing to exchange Yahoo’s 39% stake in Alibaba Group for cash. The Chinese firm that took over Yahoo’s China operations in 2005 and has been reorganizing it...
The Microhoo saga has attracted a who's who list of investors to Yahoo in a big bet that Carl Icahn will force some sort of "shareholder value." The latest investing star to enter the Microhoo sweepstakes is T. Boone Pickens, a legendary oil investor, has bought 10...
Yahoo went from Terry to Jerry, and some say we shouldn't expect any watershed change in performance as a result. Leading up to Yahoo's passionate shareholder meeting a couple weeks ago, a strong contingent of voices were calling for Terry Semel's exit from the chief post. But less than a...
I'm listening to Mitt Romney's Super Tuesday speech, and he's raising the specter of economic disaster in America. Our economy, he says, is in a "long-term slide as we're competing with Asia in particular…we can't continue to allow our economy to be weakened." Romney thus is part...
