what is the relationship between yahoo and alibaba?

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what is the relationship between yahoo and alibaba?I am not quite understand, can somebody give me a simplest explaination.

Mohammad · Accepted Answer

Yahoo is a big shareholder of alibaba.com :

http://news.yahoo.com/yahoo-sell-half-alibaba-stake-7-1b-030702473--finance.html;_ylt=A0SO8zLOKz1TQjsAzE9XNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEzOTlhN29vBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDNgRjb2xvA2dxMQR2dGlkA1ZJUDQwNV8x

According to news items, there was a move to unwind the relationship.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeremybogaisky/2012/05/20/yahoo-and-alibaba-reach-deal-to-unwind-relationship/ .

what is the relationship between yahoo and alibaba?

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