Yahoo Slides On Report Talks With Asian Partners Hit Snag

Yahoo??shares are trading higher Friday morning on a report that the company is getting close to selling part of its Alibaba Group stake back to the company, AllThingsD reports. Back in the old days (last month) when Scott Thompson was still the CEO of the company, Yahoo said on its Q1 earnings call that it ...

Yahoo (YHOO) is reportedly considering selling its stake in Alibaba Group and Yahoo Japan. According to several media reports, the company would sell part of its stake in China's Alibaba back to the company, as well as it stake in Yahoo Japan, for more than $17 billion. Yahoo's board ousted CEO Carol Bartz in September, ...

Alibaba's move to buy out Yahoo!'s stake in the Chinese Internet titan has tripped on the California firm's determination to sidestep taxes, a Dow Jones-owned technology news website reported on Tuesday.AllThingsD.com cited unnamed sources as saying discussions have hit an impasse centered on structuring the deal in a way that would let Yahoo! save more than $4 billion in US taxes on the deal.Yahoo!'s shares in Alibaba and Yahoo Japan were estimated at $17 billion.

By Dana Blankenhorn: If my company were producing $353,000 in revenue for each employee, I'd hire more.I'm not Yahoo (YHOO).

As Yahoo tries to head in a new direction, the fate of the struggling Internet company's Asian holdings remains in limbo.The negotiations to sell Yahoo's stakes in China's Alibaba Group and Yahoo Japan ...

Yahoo Inc and its Asian partners, China's Alibaba and Japan's Softbank Corp, have called off talks over a sale of the U.S. company's Asian assets, tech blog AllThingsDigital cited sources as saying on ...