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Today at the China 2.0 conference at Stanford, Alibaba Groups’s Jack Ma replied to a pointed question about buying Yahoo with, “We are very interested in Yahoo. Our Alibaba group is important to Yahoo and Yahoo is important to us … All the serious buyers interested in Yahoo have talked to us.”

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is aiming to handle one trillion yuan ($157 billion) of transactions in 2012 on its Taobao consumer sales platforms, the company's Chairman Jack Ma said Saturday.

Yahoo Inc said on Tuesday it has removed CEO Carol Bartz and replaced her on an interim basis with Chief Financial Officer Tim Morse, ending a rocky two-year run marked by stagnating growth and a bitter rift with Chinese partner Alibaba.

Yahoo and Chinese internet company Alibaba reach an agreement over its online payment service Alipay... Yahoo and Alibaba have now agreed that Alibaba would benefit from any future financial gain, such as a public offering.

Alibaba Group announced a major restructuring of its key Taobao unit, splitting the popular Chinese e-commerce platform into three separate companies focused on different market segments.

Yahoo executives said they had made "significant progress" with Alibaba Group to settle a row over ownership of a key unit that affects the value of the U.S. Internet giant's investment in its Chinese partner.

Alibaba.com CEO David Wei resigned after an internal investigation found that more than 2,300 sellers on the e-commerce site were committing fraud, sometimes with the help of Alibaba.com sales staff.

The online auctioneer views partnerships as the best way to generate business in China.