By Prudence Ho Hong Kong - Chinese Internet company Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. plans to borrow $3 billion to buy back shares held by Yahoo Inc., people familiar with the situation said.
BANGKOK—Aung Naing Oo fled Myanmar more than two decades ago, trekking through dense tropical jungles to escape the country's military regime. On Friday, he plans to return—the latest in a growing number of Myanmar exiles who are going back ...
Customers have a habit of slipping through your fingers when, instead of offering innovative products, you seek to keep them locked into old ones. That is a pricey lesson Oracle is learning.
BEIJING—A senior Chinese official sought to play down an unfolding political drama involving Chongqing's Communist Party chief, Bo Xilai, amid rising speculation that it signaled a high-level struggle over the coming national leadership ...
The immediate impact of the closure of the Megaupload file-sharing service for alleged piracy was a perceptible fall in global Internet traffic. The effect did not last long as downloaders moved to other services
NEW DELHI – Indian online retailer Flipkart.com isn't worried about potential competition from Amazon.com and plans to expand into digital music distribution as it strives to reach $1 billion in sales by the end of 2014, co-founder Binny ...
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Facebook Inc.’s IPO has been analyzed from every possible angle in the last few days. Pundits have detailed everything from Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg’s breathtaking $1.5 billion tax hit when he exercises ...
MOSCOW—A leading Moscow newspaper filed a complaint with Russian security services alleging that the country's main Kremlin-funded youth group was behind a wave of illegal Internet attacks that caused the paper's website to crash in 2008.
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Among the stocks that could see active trade in Fridayday’s session are LinkedIn Corp.,True Religion Apparel Inc. and LeapFrog Enterprises Inc.
ACCRA, Ghana (MarketWatch) — In a light blue, three-story concrete house in the suburbs of Ghana’s capital, young entrepreneurs are developing online applications they hope will make them into the Mark Zuckerbergs of Africa.
By Amol Sharma NEW DELHI -- Indian online retailer Flipkart.com has acquired fellow Internet startup Letsbuy.com, a move that signals Flipkart's intent to play the role of consolidator as India's frenetic e-commerce scene develops.
DUBAI -- Abu Dhabi's Emirates Telecommunications Co., or Etisalat, the Middle East's biggest telecom provider by market value, posted Thursday a 65% slide in fourth-quarter net profit as a hefty impairment charge related to its Indian ...
By Prudence Ho Chinese Internet giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is in the process of raising a US$3 billion loan from around six banks to buy back the stake that Yahoo Inc. owns in the company, people familiar with the situation said ...
Europeans will take to the streets this weekend in protest at the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, an international agreement that has given birth to an ocean full of red herrings.