Sources: Reuters
Indonesia restricts access to eight websites, including PayPal, Yahoo! and Steam, for failing to register with the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology. Online services registered with the ministry are required to comply with disclosure and content removal requests. 2022-07-30
Jack Ma retires and Daniel Zhang succeeds him as executive chairman of Alibaba Group. 2019-09-10
Yahoo! shareholders officially approve its $4.48 billion sale to Verizon Wireless. Yahoo! stock was up 8.5 percent shortly thereafter. 2017-06-8
Verizon Communications buys Yahoo! for $4.83 billion in cash, ending the latter's over 20-year run as an independent corporation. 2016-07-25
Bloomberg News reports Verizon Communications plans a bid for Yahoo Inc.'s Web business, including Yahoo Japan Corp., next week. Google, Time Inc., and private equity funds Bain and TPG are considering bidding for Yahoo's core business. AT&T Inc., Comcast, and Microsoft Corp. reportedly aren't interested. 2016-04-7
Yahoo Inc. says that it has created a committee of independent directors that will explore strategic alternatives, notably the sale of its core internet business. 2016-02-19
Beijing Gehua CATV Network announces its plan to partnership Alibaba Group, China Film Group Corporation, and the new firm China TV Theaters Operating Co. Ltd. to expand the video streaming service throughout China, which may resemble Netflix and is called Tmall Box Office (TBO). 2015-06-15
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group lists on NYSE in one of the largest initial public offerings in history. 2014-09-19
Alibaba Pictures Group Ltd., a unit of the giant Chinese e-commerce firm, finds accounting irregularities in its books. 2014-08-15
Yahoo! announces plans to axe 600 jobs and phase out services such as Delicious. 2010-12-16