Topic: Hong Kong

SEO

Report: Yahoo To Purchase 10 Percent Or $100M Of Alibaba IPO

According to various reports, Yahoo is going to buy either a 10 percent stake or $100 million worth of the forthcoming public offering of B2B site Alibaba.com on the Hong Kong exchange. The company already owns a significant minority stake (39 percent) of Alibaba Group, the parent of Alibaba.com. It would be buying a stake […]

| Oct 9, 2007 at 11:38 am ET
SEO

Yahoo Buys Mobile Ad Content Company, Actionality

Yahoo! buys Actionality from Mobile Entertainment reports Yahoo has purchased Actionality, a company that specializes in creating ad-funded mobile content. Actionality has technology that embeds games with ads at the point of download. Actionality is a Munich-based company with sales offices in Berlin and Hong Kong. There has been no official confirmation of the acquisition […]

| Aug 21, 2007 at 9:44 am ET
Ecommerce

Yahoo To Close Yahoo Auctions

Yahoo has announced that they will be closing Yahoo Auctions in the United States and Canada as of June 16, 2007. Yahoo Auctions will continue in Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan. Clearly, Yahoo has thrown in the towel when it comes to fighting eBay in the auction space, Instead, the company recently partnered up even […]

| May 9, 2007 at 9:27 am ET
PPC

Yahoo Sued For Allegedly Helping Jail Wang Xiaoning

Chinese couple sues Yahoo for man’s imprisonment from Reuters reports that Wang Xiaoning and his wife Yu Ling have sued Yahoo in the U.S. District Court for Northern California for allegedly helping the Chinese government prosecute Wang Xiaoning. The filing said that Xiaoning was in custody, he was “subjected to torture and cruel, inhuman or […]

| Apr 19, 2007 at 9:28 am ET