Alibaba Group

Everyone seems anxious to hook up Yahoo! these days. The dot-com pioneer has become that single aunt in every family whom everyone thinks sorely needs a soul mate. But what if Yahoo! is happy to be single? After all, it just spent $270 million on a acquisition of its own to beef up its online advertising.

Groupon has entered China via its investment in GaoPeng.com, the group-buying site that launched in Beijing and Shanghai yesterday.

Yahoo, which holds roughly 40% of Alibaba's Chinese parent, Alibaba Group Holding, had been pining for an IPO of the e-commerce giant's sister company, Taobao. Now, though, with a fraud probe underway, Yahoo's chances of cashing in on an IPO just got slimmer.

Just a few months after Google exited the Chinese search market, Microsoft and Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group have partnered to launch their own Chinese search site, Etao.

Alibaba.com (ALBCF) is unwilling to take part in its parent Alibaba Group's bid to buy a stake in Sohu.com Inc's search engine unit. Alibaba Group and a fund founded by its chairman, Jack Ma, plan to buy a 16% stake in Sohu.com's search engine unit, Sogou, IDG News reported. The deal, which has...