Alibaba chief eyes whole of Yahoo

Jack Ma has always been good at surprising people. With his decision to set up an online sourcing directory in China when the country’s internet was little more than a handful of slow dial-up lines in the late 1990s, the former English teacher provoked mostly incredulous looks.

Now Mr Ma has done it again: last Friday, he told an internet conference at Stanford University that he was “very, very interested” in buying Yahoo.

via Alibaba chief eyes whole of Yahoo – FT.com.

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