Georg Szalai But Alibaba Group's Taobao unit shows up on the list of the 15 most notorious markets for piracy. read more

With many new tablets launching at the Consumer Electronics Show, now is a great time for makers of counterfeit hardware to tempt deal-hunting consumers who may not be savvy at distinguishing between real products and their fake counterparts. Anti-counterfeiting vendor OpSec Security today pointed out numerous listings for counterfeit Motorola Xooms, Samsung Galaxy Tabs and Amazon Kindles ...

Oracle shares fall almost 12% as results miss consensus estimates and as its outlook leaves investors disappointed. Yahoo makes late charge on reports it will cut its Alibaba stake.

Taobao.com, China’s largest online trade platform, has accused those protesting the platform of being illegal merchandisers that had been punished by the platform, a spokesman for the platform said at a news conference on Monday afternoon in East China’s Zhejiang province.

Kuala Lumpur (ANN) - Man is a social animal. The 19th century sociologist and philosopher Georg Simmel argued that trade and exchange is "one of the purest and most primitive forms of human socialisation." Last month, while travelling through remote parts of West Timor, in Indonesia, I was able to study first-hand how rural markets operate. I could not help wondering why so-called primitive ...

With Yahoo's new CEO at the helm, this could help potentially close a deal more quickly assuming that Yahoo's board and new CEO are still in favor of selling its stake in Alibaba and other Asian assets.

HONG KONG, December 26 (Reuters) - News anddevelopments in Asia private equity from Reuters News for theholiday period, and the week ending Jan. 13. JANUARY 13 TPG Capital LP is willing to invest about $1billion in Japan's Olympus Corp in a joint deal withSony Corp or another suitor circling the scandal-hitcompany, a person familiar with TPG's thinking said. INVESTORS HAVE approved a year-long ...

With nearly 100 new tablet technologies expected to launch during this year’s Consumer Electronics Show , OpSec Security, Inc., the global leader in anti-counterfeiting and brand protection, today revealed the results of an industry snapshot that examined the prevalence of counterfeit tablets listed on popular business-to-business trade boards.

Move on the buyout position A former PayPal president, Scott Thompson assumes Yahoo's big chair at an acutely dynamic and also slippery moment. Alibaba, China's giant web firm which is actually 40% Yahoo owned, is girding to make a bid for Yahoo itself. It's gone as far as hiring a Washington-based lobbying firm, and this is being seen as an enormous sign that it has designs on Yahoo. Alibaba's ...

The Wall Street Journal reports Yahoo is in talks to sell its stake in Yahoo Japan and part of its stake in China's Alibaba...for a hefty fee.