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Yahoo is entering the browser space with a bang. Its new Axis browser is available as a standalone app for iPhone and iPad as well as a plug-in for Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Google's Chrome, and Apple's Safari.

Yahoo will stop production of its personalized iPad magazine effort, Livestand, just seven months after it debuted, the company announced in a blog post Friday.

The status, which is granted to media agencies by invitation only, follows a rigorous assessment process and is based on specialists' performance.

Google always offered results. Then Microsoft came along and promised decisions.

Axis offers the only search experience that allows you to enter your search, see and interact with visual results, all without ever leaving the page you are on.

Ross Levinsohn, Yahoo's new Executive zVice President of the Americas region, talks about his strategy for revitalizing the site's entertainment offerings.

The Deal : Yahoo! and Alibaba Group announced Sunday they have entered into a definitive agreement for a staged and comprehensive value realization plan for Yahoo!'s stake in Alibaba.

In a report published earlier today, Piper Jaffray & Co. reiterated its Overweight rating and $18.00 price target for Yahoo! Inc.

EXECUTIVE MOVES Thompson quits Splunk board Yahoo Inc. ex-CEO Scott Thompson has resigned from the board of Splunk Inc.

A former Yahoo executive and a hedge fund manager have pleaded guilty in New York to an insider trading charge.

The $7.1 billion deal, which involves Alibaba buying back the stake from Yahoo, comes after years of negotiations - and a revolving door of CEOs at Yahoo.

Mike Moritz, who represented Sequoia Capital in its investments in companies such as Google, PayPal and Yahoo, is ratcheting back his role due to a rare medical condition, he said.

"We need a high price for it to work, but not uncomfortably so -- because that would be a deal hijacked by a frenzied public.

Eight other people were injured when two jon boats - flat-bottomed boats often made of aluminum - crashed early Saturday near Burlington.

It's complicated, and it will be in stages, but the process has begun, and Yahoo says it will get about $7.1 billion in short order, via Alibaba's repurchase of half of Yahoo's stake in the company.

Yahoo Inc. may be nearing a deal to sell to sell a part of its prized stake in the major Chinese e-commerce provider Alibaba.

Yahoo reportedly is close to a deal that will sell half of its stake in Chinese Internet giant Alibaba, giving Jack Ma more control over his company.

Yahoo shares are moving up, following Kara Swisher's report that it's divesting one half of its Alibaba investment back to that company, in a complex transaction that involves a multibillion-dollar share repurchase to YHOO shareholders and eventually an Alibaba initial public offering.

Back in 2006, Facebook was only a shadow of the company it would become, tech giant Yahoo was attempting to buy the social network for $1 billion - and Dan Rosenweig was the man who got Zuckerberg's handshake on that offer.

Following closely on the heels of their $15 million venture capital windfall, many Fiverr sellers, including this reporter, are currently shut out of their accounts, unable to withdraw funds they've already earned.