Yahoo may be considering selling off its stake in joint venture with Japanese Internet giant Softbank. What would it do with the $8 billion?
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Groupon has entered China via its investment in GaoPeng.com, the group-buying site that launched in Beijing and Shanghai yesterday.
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Google on Friday announced that it has adjusted its search-engine ranking system to demote so-called “low quality” sites and boost the rankings of sites with original content and substantial analysis.
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Some influential tech voices deeply critical of today’s search technology hailed the victory of IBM’s Watson at Jeopardy! as a forerunner of a new type of more intelligent, useful and less spammy search. Here’s why that’s still…
Yahoo, which holds roughly 40% of Alibaba’s Chinese parent, Alibaba Group Holding, had been pining for an IPO of the e-commerce giant’s sister company, Taobao. Now, though, with a fraud probe underway, Yahoo’s chances of cashin…