spin off

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.

It was Independence Day for AOL (AOL) on Thursday as the company was formally spun off from Time Warner (TWX), but the stock's debut on the New York Stock Exchange was something less than fireworks. Shares in AOL -- DailyFinance's parent company -- spent almost the entire session in the red, but...

AOL, or "Aol.," as DailyFinance's corporate parent shall soon be known, won't be spun off from Time Warner (TWX) until Dec. 9, but Wall Street is already forecasting its (or should we say, "our") business prospects. Barclays Capital analyst Douglas Anmuth laid out his earnings estimates for...