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...Additional reporting by Kiran Stacey in Washington, Oliver Barnes and Sarah Neville in London, Erika Solomon in Berlin, Nikou Asgari in New York, Mehul Srivastava in Jerusalem, and Sam Fleming in Brussels...
...Yahoo notably abandoned its Alibaba spin over tax liability concerns. In 2015, there were $177bn worth of US spin-offs, up from just $17bn in 2010....
...Yahoo cuts slices in cake sale Yahoo is trying to have its cake and eat it, announcing another overhaul along with a thinly veiled invitation to potential acquirers, says Lex....
...Yahoo’s motley collection of websites and applications including search, Yahoo Mail and digital magazines....
...He says Yahoo has failed to match such deals and has become an afterthought for its shareholders....
...- Ackman v. Berkshire: Whose holdings are more immoral? - Meet the City types publicly backing a UK departure from the EU....
...Marissa Mayer, Yahoo chief executive, pointed out that since the Paris attacks, public opinion had swung back towards a desire for security and away from privacy concerns....
...Barnes & Noble was under pressure after its chairman announced that he would reduce his stake to 20 per cent....
...Awkward (Financial Times) Moscow’s ‘political technologists’ specialise in creating pure spectacle (Financial Times) Sleaze v spin in Mexico’s race for reform (Financial Times) The SEC is turning into...
...Yahoo shares traded in a narrow range and closed 0.4 per cent lower at $15.61 after recently appointed chief executive Marissa Mayer reshuffled her management team....
...In contrast, Yahoo shares rose 0.4 per cent to $17.89 on the news that Greenlight Capital and Third Point added the stock to their portfolios....
...Expect lots of chatter about today’s payroll numbers, Hungary’s standoff with the EU/IMF, the possibility that Barnes & Noble will spin off its Nook division, Bank of America’s perplexing stock, Yahoo’s...
...Yahoo slipped 0.8 per cent to $15.56 despite reporting results in line with expectations....
...The anti-tax message in that 1992 decision, Quill v North Dakota, is not as clear-cut as Amazon’s friends let on....
...Yahoo nabbed y.co.uk and Virgin has v.co.uk. BP will get bp.co.uk, the Football Association fa.co.uk, British Airways ba.co.uk, Burger King bk.co.uk, and Yo! Sushi yo.co.uk....
...Also, it has more in common with Facebook than the usual “search algorithm v social network” contrast suggests....
...But it struggled to make greater inroads while under Yahoo!’s wing....
...The country is similarly divided on Wrangler jeans, Budweiser beer, Starbucks coffee, JetBlue airlines and Barnes & Noble bookstores....
...This year internet-connected TVs are expected by retailers to outsell 3D ones and the leading US maker Vizio is one of many TV manufacturers to integrate internet services using Yahoo Connected TV....
...Draw your own conclusions, but Spring Design, which launched the Alex on the eve of Barnes & Noble’s Nook, now says it has filed a lawsuit alleging “Barnes & Noble misappropriated trade secrets and violated...
...Critics, including internet rivals Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo have objected to the exclusive rights that the search company would have to sell access to digital copies in its database of “orphan works”,...
...FT Alphaville did not see this coming: AMD and Intel on Thursday declared the end of one of the longest-running and bitterest spats in the technology sector (see also: Apple v Microsoft, Yahoo v Google,...
...The right has existed in US state common law since a 1918 case called International New Services v. Associated Press....
...From Reuters: Chinese search engine Baidu Inc shares jumped 16.8 percent to $451.50 in premarket trade on Wednesday as rival Google Inc threatened to quit operations in China, warnings...
...As people become more used to the slick user experiences provided by Google, Yahoo and Facebook, they become less tolerant of older, clunkier business applications ....
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