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The CEO of the Chinese internet company Alibaba Group says he would be "very interested" in buying Yahoo.
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Jack Ma made the statement in response to a question during a speaking engagement at Stanford University on Friday, said John Spelich, a spokesman for Alibaba.; z+ ^+ n4 G, I2 l5 n
# |4 s X/ b7 `' EMa also told the audience prospective buyers had approached Alibaba to discuss a possible purchase for Yahoo, Spelich said late on Saturday. The spokesman did not identify the prospective buyers.www.tvboxnow.com- b9 j* U# r+ f) ~5 c( Y: `6 S
" W+ W4 j" v' }; F ~: L: cYahoo is trying to decide whether to sell part or all of itself following the firing last month of Carol Bartz as CEO.
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( g+ N7 ?- W* [* x- l, ]- cEmployees were told in an email in late September that the process could take several months.
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1 g$ x- ^) U& j% R公仔箱論壇In the meantime, there will be much speculation about who might be interested in the company.
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Yahoo owns about 40 per cent of Alibaba.
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1 g/ R1 L: I* G4 ~, tTVBNOW 含有熱門話題,最新最快電視,軟體,遊戲,電影,動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。Bartz was fired because she was unable to boost Yahoo's advertising revenue and make the company more competitive with Google and Facebook./ ^5 A, \& @/ [( z' Z/ J
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Yahoo's net revenue - the amount the company keeps after paying advertising commissions - fell five per cent in the second quarter. Google's revenue soared 36 per cent.
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* [' K$ c. a# s6 {2 [公仔箱論壇The company is searching for a new CEO while also considering whether to sell itself.
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Chief Financial Officer Tim Morse is serving as interim CEO while the search for a successor to Bartz continues. |