Yahoo has dropped its tablet magazine Livestand just six months after its debut on the iPad. More »Yahoo drops tablet magazine service
From uproar in the House of Commons to a rogue tornado which disrupted a wedding, here … More »Video: The Week in News
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Alibaba.com Ltd , Hong Kong-listed unit of China's Alibaba Group … More »Alibaba.com says 83.8 percent of shareholders …
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Alibaba.com Ltd , Hong Kong-listed unit of China's Alibaba Group , said on Friday that 83.8 percent of its shareholders have approved a $2.5 billion buyout offer by the parent to take the company private, in a decision that was widely … More »Alibaba.com says 83.8 percent of shareholders back privatisation
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Alibaba.com Ltd, Hong Kong-listed unit of China's Alibaba Group, said on Friday that 83.8 percent of its shareholders have approved a $2.5 billion buyout offer by the parent to take the company private, in a decision that was widely … More »Alibaba.com says 83.8 pct of shareholders back privatisation
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Sovereign wealth fund China Investment Corp (CIC) is in advanced talks to buy an up to $2 billion (1.27 billion pounds) stake in Alibaba Group, sources told Reuters, as the Chinese e-commerce powerhouse looks to secure the last of … More »China's CIC eyes up to $2 billion stake in Alibaba Group - sources
Search and browse at the same time More »Yahoo enters the browser business, targets your iPhone, iPad and desktop
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - With two of its most distracting conflicts resolved in the past week and a half, Yahoo Inc hopes its new interim chief executive can focus on the biggest challenge of all: turning the company into an entertainment and information … More »Yahoo under Levinsohn seen shifting to content, advertising
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - With two of its most distracting conflicts resolved in the past week and a half, Yahoo Inc hopes its new interim chief executive can focus on the biggest challenge of all: turning the company into an entertainment and information … More »Yahoo under Levinsohn seen shifting to content, advertising
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's Alibaba Group could command a Facebook-rivalling valuation of $100 billion when it comes to list its shares, possibly by 2015 - but its more immediate challenge is to hang on to top spot in the country's $36 billion e-commerce … More »After Yahoo deal, challenges abound for Alibaba
US regulators announced that a former Yahoo! executive has agreed to plead guilty in an insider trading scheme that involved leaking word of the Internet search giant's pact with Microsoft. More »Former Yahoo! executive charged with insider trading
(Reuters) - Federal prosecutors on Monday announced insider trading charges against a former Yahoo employee and a fund manager for illegally sharing and trading on secret company information. The pair pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court on Monday, … More »Ex-Yahoo director, fund manager made illegal trades - U.S.
SHANGHAI/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc will sell as much as half of its 40 percent stake in Chinese e-commerce powerhouse Alibaba Group for $7.1 billion (4.48 billion pounds), ending years of fractious talks over how to extract value from its most prized … More »Yahoo clears a hurdle, sells Alibaba stake for $7.1 billion
SHANGHAI/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc will sell as much as half of its 40 percent stake in Chinese e-commerce powerhouse Alibaba Group for $7.1 billion (4.48 billion pounds), ending years of fractious talks over how to extract value from its most prized … More »Yahoo clears a hurdle, sells Alibaba stake for $7.1 billion
SHANGHAI/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Chinese Internet entrepreneur Jack Ma is buying back up to half of a 40 percent stake in his Alibaba Group from Yahoo Inc for $7.1 billion (4.49 billion pounds), in a deal that moves the Chinese e-commerce leader closer to … More »Alibaba buys back 20 percent stake held by Yahoo for $7.1 billion
SHANGHAI/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Chinese Internet entrepreneur Jack Ma is buying back up to half of a 40 percent stake in his Alibaba Group from Yahoo Inc for $7.1 billion, in a deal that moves the Chinese e-commerce leader closer to a public listing. Under … More »Alibaba buys back 20 pct stake held by Yahoo for $7.1 billion
SINGAPORE/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Chinese Internet firm Alibaba Group is in talks with existing shareholders, including Singapore state investor Temasek Holdings , to raise about $2.3 billion in equity to partly finance its deal with Yahoo Inc. , two sources … More »Alibaba in talks to raise $2.3 billion equity for Yahoo deal-sources
(Reuters) - Yahoo Inc shares rose 6 percent in premarket trading after Alibaba Group agreed to buy back up to half of the U.S. company's 40 percent stake in the Chinese Internet giant for $7.1 billion. The deal also clears the way for an initial public … More »Yahoo shares gain on Alibaba stake sale
After more than a year of tedious negotiations, struggling US Internet pioneer Yahoo! has agreed to sell its stake in Alibaba, China's top e-commerce player, for at least $7.1 billion, the companies announced. More »Yahoo! to sell stake in China's Alibaba for $7.1 billion
From raging wildfires to a bike-riding dog, here are this week’s most compelling video reports on Yahoo! News. More »Video: The Week in News
(Reuters) - Yahoo Inc's choice of interim chief executive is a signal the company is returning to its roots selling brand advertising on its consumer websites, analysts say, even as a deal with an activist hedge fund raises new questions about its future. … More »Yahoo investors applaud change, fear limbo
Yahoo chief executive Scott Thompson has resigned amid accusations his CV featured a computer science degree that he never received. More »Yahoo Boss Quits Amid Fake Degree Claims
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc is replacing its CEO for the third time in as many years, and giving three board seats to a hedge fund led by Daniel Loeb, putting him in a strong position to influence strategy at the struggling Internet company. Chief … More »Yahoo CEO out, investor Loeb gets board seats
Yahoo has swept out embattled chief executive Scott Thompson to try to clean up a mess created by an exaggeration about his education that destroyed his credibility as he set out to turn the long-troubled internet company around. More »Yahoo's 'bogus degree' boss quits
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc Chief Executive Scott Thompson has stepped down after a controversy over a fake computer science college degree on his biography, the third CEO in three years to leave the Internet company struggling to define its future. … More »Yahoo CEO out, board settles with investor Loeb
From an unexpected tornado on British soil to an extreme safety test on a new family car, here are this week’s most watched videos on Yahoo! News. More »Video: The Week in News
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc Chief Executive Scott Thompson never provided a resume or incorrect information to Yahoo, he told top executives at a meeting on Thursday, according to a source familiar with the matter. Thompson held a meeting with … More »Yahoo CEO says he never provided a resume - source
BGT finalist Sam Kelly says his biggest competition for Saturday night's show are singing acts Jonathan and Charlotte and Loveable Rogues. Speaking exclusively to Yahoo! omg! this morning we asked Sam Kelly who he was most wary of for Saturday's … Continue … More »BGT Sam Kelly: My biggest competition is Jonathan and Charlotte and Loveable Rogues
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc director Patti Hart, who led the hiring of CEO Scott Thompson, will give up her seat on Yahoo's board as the Internet company launches an investigation into the chief executive's educational background. Yahoo's board … More »Yahoo director who led CEO search won't seek re-election - source
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc's board convened on Monday afternoon to discuss the mounting upset surrounding Chief Executive Scott Thompson, who has apologized to employees after being accused last week by activist investor Daniel Loeb of padding … More »Yahoo CEO apologizes in memo, board meets -source
A major Yahoo shareholder has made a legal demand for internal records about the embattled internet company's hiring of chief executive Scott Thompson. More »Yahoo shareholder demands records
(Reuters) - Activist hedge fund Third Point, which has called for the ouster of Yahoo Inc Chief Executive Scott Thompson for padding his resume, formally demanded in a letter that the Internet company provide access to all documents relating to Thompson's … More »Third Point demands Yahoo CEO hiring documents
BGT stars Ashleigh and Pudsey the dog have made QUITE an impression on judge Simon Cowell. And according to Pudsey's owner Ashleigh, Britain's Got Talent judge Simon Cowell as all-but taken the dancing dog home with him. Speaking to Yahoo! … More »BGT Ashleigh exclusive: Simon Cowell is obsessed with Pudsey
BGT stars Ashleigh and Pudsey the dog have made QUITE an impression on judge Simon Cowell. And according to Pudsey's owner Ashleigh, Britain's Got Talent judge Simon Cowell as all-but taken the dancing dog home with him. Speaking to Yahoo! … More »BGT Ashleigh: Simon Cowell is obsessed with Pudsey
Britain's Got Talent finalists Only Boys Aloud may be competing on the rival talent show to Sir Tom Jones from The Voice. But Welsh choir Only Boys Aloud have told Yahoo! omg! they'd love to do a Britain's Got Talent/The … More »Britain’s Got Talent: Only Boys Aloud want to duet with The Voice’s Tom Jones
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc could be weeks away from selling 15 percent to 25 percent of Alibaba Group's stock back to China's largest e-commerce company, in a deal designed to eliminate complexities that had scuttled the parties' previous negotiations, … More »Yahoo in talks to sell 15 percent - 25 percent of Alibaba - source
From darkened skies in the UK to skyscrapers in New York, here are this week’s most compelling video reports on Yahoo! News. More »Video: The Week in News
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Activist hedge fund Third Point on Thursday accused Yahoo Inc's new chief executive, Scott Thompson, of padding his educational record, and Yahoo called the discrepancy an "inadvertent error." Thompson claims to hold a bachelor's … More »Third Point - Yahoo CEO faked educational record
Conservative candidate Boris Johnson is the overwhelming favourite to retain his seat as London mayor, according to a Yahoo! News poll. More »London mayor poll: Boris Johnson most popular with Yahoo! readers
From a heartfelt appeal for the world most endangered tribe to a particularly bad piece of driving in Paris, here are this week’s most watched videos on Yahoo! News. More »Video: The Week in News
As the government prepares to release annual statistics for Freedom of Information requests, Yahoo! News takes a look at five of the best FOIs in the last 12 months – from the extraordinary to the extraterrestrial. More »Freedom of Information requests: The good, the bad and the downright silly
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Amy Childs knows pretty much everything there is to know about beauty — so when we had a chat with the star, we couldn't wait to get her tips. Speaking exclusively to Yahoo! omg! Amy Childs told us: "Always take … More »EXCLUSIVE: Amy Childs talks fitness, beauty tips and coping with fame