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Alibaba Buys Back 20% Stake From Yahoo for $7.1 Billion

Chinese e-commerce site Alibaba has bought half of Yahoo’s stake in the company — 20% of Alibaba’s shares — back from Yahoo for $7.1 billion. Under the terms of the agreement, Yahoo will sell half its stake in Alibaba for at least $6.3 billion in cash and up to $800 million in new Alibaba preferred stock. Yahoo had bought a 40% in Alibaba for about $1 billion in 2005. Back then Yahoo was still one of the most successful internet companies around, but somewhere around that time Yahoo’s revenue...

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Published By: Mashable - Monday, 21 May, 2012