Alibaba, China's top e-commerce player, will re-purchase a 20-per cent state in itself from US portal Yahoo! for at least $7.1 billion, the companies announced on Sunday.

"At the minimum price and as

Yahoo Inc. could be weeks away from selling 15 to 25 percent of Alibaba Group's stock back to China's largest e-commerce company, in a deal designed to eliminate complexities that had scuttled the par

Yahoo Inc is considering a plan to unload most of its prized Asian assets in a complex deal valued at roughly $17 billion, sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday, winning nods of approval

Yahoo got short-changed -- that's the view of analysts picking apart the complex deal it announced on Friday with Alibaba Group and SoftBank Corp over Chinese e-payments unit Alipay.

The trio struck