BEIJING (Reuters) - China is "greatly concerned and strongly opposed" to the United States' listing of Taobao, the country's largest consumer e-commerce website, as a notorious market for piracy, a spokesman for China's Ministry of Commerce said on Wednesday. Last month, the United States kept Alibaba Group's Taobao unit on the United States Trade Representative's November notorious markets list ...

Alibaba has hired a Washington lobbying firm in a sign that the Chinese e-commerce company would be willing to make a bid for all of Yahoo! in the event that talks to unwind their Asian partnership fail....

The Chinese company is considering a number of acquisition options for the Web pioneer, including the possibility of a total purchase.

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, China's biggest e-commerce company, may not find it easy to buy Yahoo! Inc's assets after the largest US Web portal appointed a new chief executive officer, analysts said. .....

HONG KONG, CHINA: Alibaba Group has reduced the size of its debut loan to $3 billion, the funds which the Chinese e-commerce giant plans to use to buy back part of the 40 per cent stake held by Yahoo Inc, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wednesday.

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.

China's Alibaba has retained DC lobbyists at the Duberstein Group, suggesting it's gearing up to make a takeover bid for Yahoo.

Alibaba has hired Washington lobbying firm Duberstein Group Inc., likely in a sign the company is planning to make a serious move in regard to Yahoo.

U.S. authorities acted irresponsibly when they last month labeled Alibaba Group's e-commerce sites as "notorious markets" for selling pirated and counterfeit...

Yahoo co-founder and one-time CEO Jerry Yang resigned from the company’s board as well as from the board of China’s Alibaba Group, where Apple has a 44 percent interest