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Asahi Shimbun noted that Darvish achieved that 100th win with considerable speed compared to other Japanese players who have made the leap to the majors.

If there was one public company that defines the word soap opera, Yahoo! would be that company.

Yahoo Inc said it is to sell up to half of its stake in Internet entrepreneur Jack Ma's Alibaba Group back to the Chinese company for $7.1 billion, and hand most of the sale proceeds to its shareholders.

The embattled internet giant, whose revenue dropped 21 percent last year, has aimed to shake off its stakes in Alibaba Group and Yahoo Japan so that it can use the money to make acquisitions, among other moves.

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Yahoo's new CEO, Scott Thompson, is going to be gone after four months of tenure over his college degree scandal.

PayPal and Softbank said Wednesday they will form a new joint venture to pursue online transactions business in the country.

Fans of Lady Gaga bidding on a teacup and saucer used only once by the pop diva had offered more than six million yen for the item by the time the hammer fell, a Japanese auction site said on Monday.

Yahoo is getting close to selling 15%-25% of its stake in Alibaba Group back to the company, Reuters reports , citing "a person familiar with the matter." Unlike previously contemplated transactions of insane complexity , this would be a straight sale, with the company no longer trying to do a deal on a tax-free basis.

Back in December of 2011, Symantec identified the first case of an Android threat that was used in conjunction with a website-injection campaign targeting sites in the Middle East.

It looks like Yahoo's rivalry with Google just got a little more heated thanks to Yahoo Japan launching a browser of their own on Google's Android platform.

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In a letter to shareholders on Wednesday, Yahoo!'s board outlined the company's "forward momentum" and urged investors to reject Loeb's slate of board nominees.

Fans bidding in a charity online auction to buy a teacup used once by pop diva Lady Gaga had offered more than four million yen by Tuesday, with five days left before the hammer falls.

American pop star Lady Gaga on Monday put up for auction a teacup she used at a press conference last June in Tokyo, to raise funds to help young Japanese artists after the devastating earthquake and tsunami in March last year, the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo said.