Yahoo Japan

    By Douglas McIntyre

    | 9:30AM 6/02/2011
    Alibaba Group CEO Jack Ma told the the AllThingsD D9 conference that Yahoo should be broken into pieces. Ma may be in the midst of a beef with the search company, which holds a major stake in his firm, but despite the idea's source, a break-up could make sense financially.

    By Douglas McIntyre

    | 7:15AM 3/02/2011
    Yahoo may be considering selling off its stake in joint venture with Japanese Internet giant Softbank. What would it do with the $8 billion?

    By The Associated Press

    | 3:55AM 12/02/2010
    Japanese authorities gave the OK for Yahoo Japan and Google to partner on a new service in the country as long as the companies continued to remain separate.

    By Dawn Kawamoto

    | 1:10PM 11/09/2010
    A group of private-equity investors is calling on the CEO of Chinese Internet giant Alibaba Group to throw his support behind a buyout offer for Yahoo, Reuters reports. Alibaba founder Jack Ma is reportedly considering his options regarding the U.S. firm that holds a 40% stake in his company.

    By Dawn Kawamoto

    | 7:15PM 9/09/2010
    Yahoo seems to be having trouble keeping its Asian partners happy. After South Korean and Japanese partners announced plans to ditch the Internet giant last month, Alibaba now says it may reconsider its partnership as well.

    By Dawn Kawamoto

    | 10:26AM 7/27/2010
    Yahoo Japan is hooking up with Google to handle its search and paid-search advertising, carrying off a partnership that eluded U.S.-based Yahoo, and delivering a blow to Microsoft's efforts to increase the reach of its Bing search engine.