News tagged with takeover
China's Alibaba raising $3bn for Yahoo! stake: report
Chinese online commerce giant Alibaba plans to borrow $3 billion to buy back the stake Yahoo! owns in the company, a report said Thursday, as the struggling US Internet firm overhauls its Asia holdings.
Feb 09, 2012 |
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Groupon fails to turn profit as revenue grows
Daily deals site Groupon on Wednesday issued its first earnings report as a publicly traded company, saying it failed to turn a profit despite revenue nearly tripling from a year earlier.
Feb 08, 2012 |
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Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang resigns, shares jump (Update)
Jerry Yang, who co-founded Yahoo! nearly 17 years ago and had an ill-fated stint as chief executive, abruptly resigned from all of his positions with the struggling Internet company.
Jan 17, 2012 |
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Groupon distancing itself from rivals: CEO
Groupon chief executive Andrew Mason said Wednesday in his first comments since the online daily deals site went public that he believes the company is distancing itself from its rivals.
Dec 01, 2011 |
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Motorola Mobility stockholders back sale to Google
Motorola Mobility stockholders on Thursday overwhelmingly endorsed selling the company to Google in a deal valued at $12.5 billion.
Nov 18, 2011 |
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Groupon seeks to raise up to $621 million from IPO
US online daily deals sensation Groupon said Friday that it hopes to raise as much as $621 million from its initial public offering, less than previously expected.
Oct 21, 2011 |
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Microsoft-led group readies Yahoo! offer: report
US software giant Microsoft and private investors are assembling a multi-billion-dollar offer to purchase Yahoo!, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
Oct 20, 2011 |
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Alibaba tells Yahoo! to decide on takeover
Alibaba Group Chairman Jack Ma said Thursday he expects an answer from Yahoo! within weeks to his long-standing offer to buy all or part of the US Internet giant, saying delays were hurting both firms.
Oct 20, 2011 |
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Facebook buys question-and-answer friend.ly
Facebook said Monday it has acquired friend.ly, a firm behind a Facebook social question-and-answer service.
Oct 10, 2011 |
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'Multiple parties' interested in Yahoo!: memo
Yahoo! is fielding inquiries from "multiple parties" who have expressed an interest in the struggling Internet company, officials said Friday in a memo sent to employees and obtained by AFP.
Sep 24, 2011 |
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Activist buys up stake in Yahoo, slams board
(AP) -- An activist investment fund disclosed Thursday that it has bought a 5.2 percent stake in troubled Web portal Yahoo Inc. and called for sweeping changes to the board.
Sep 08, 2011 |
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Google expands online deals to five more cities
Google expanded its local bargains program to five more cities Wednesday in a challenge to online deals giants Groupon and LivingSocial.
Sep 07, 2011 |
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Google expands deals to New York, San Francisco
Google expanded its local bargains program to San Francisco and New York on Tuesday, a month after launching a test of the service in Portland, Oregon.
Jul 12, 2011 |
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Israeli generic drug giant Teva to buy Cephalon
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, the world's largest generic drug maker, will buy US biopharma firm Cephalon in a $6.8 billion deal, the companies said in a joint statement Monday.
Medicine & Health / Medications
May 02, 2011 |
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Japan Livedoor tycoon Horie to be jailed
Japan's brash Livedoor Internet tycoon Takafumi Horie will be jailed after losing his final appeal against a conviction for accounting fraud, a judicial official said Tuesday.
Apr 26, 2011 |
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