Alibaba had already hired Duberstein Group (an American company), they will negotiate for acquiring Yahoo asset. Analysts thought Alibaba might buy Yahoo all Asian assets.

Softbank Corporation who has a 30 percent stake in Alibaba and also is Yahoo’s a partner in Japan becomes a lobby group with Alibaba.

September, Alibaba founder Jack Ma had expressed: if opportunity is acceptable, he is interested in the Yahoo.

The lobby company in Washington can help Alibaba respond to U.S. political opposition, avoid the internet control and inspection and so on, to let Mr Ma acquire the assets of Yahoo.

“Sometime ‘national security’ is just an excuse, the real reason is the commercial purpose. ” Marbridge Consulting, executive director, Mark Natkin point out:” I don’t think that there will be a big problem about Alibaba acquires Yahoo, the users can still share or keep date follow their inclinations. Whether or not concern the company of attribution where the user decisions. ”

Sale situation will become clear

Alibaba, Softbank and Yahoo have been looking for good means to be able to disentangle the complicated relationship among them. An insider says, early in the autumn, Alibaba had hired Duberstein and the private equity firms to deal with the acquisition about Yahoo. Although these private equity firms had attempted to buy all assets of Yahoo, but the result of discussion, they thought of selling Yahoo off in pieces maybe was a better idea. American assets will be belonged to the purchase group, while Asian assets will be sold to Alibaba and Softbank.

An insider says, at present the situation of the acquisition about Yahoo has became clear. Yahoo will plan to sell the Asian assets to Alibaba and Softbank. The part of the value is $17 billion. Alibaba can also buy-back Yahoo had 40% of the group holding shares, getting the ownership Yahoo in Japan.

Yahoo has been finding a reasonable way to deal with the business and reform the style, to copy with Google and Facebook.

In early December, the media had reported that a few lenders were considering for Alibaba providing $4 billion loans to help the company buy-back Yahoo had 40% of the group holding shares.

The background of lobbying companys

According to the U.S. congressional record, Alibaba had submitted some documents, preliminarily revealed the company intent to lobby the U.S. government.

Kenneth Duberstein is responsible for Duberstein group who was served as a staff of the officials in White House when President Reagan. The company also includes BP, Goldman sachs, Pfizre and so on.

In addition, Duberstein says, American law firms like Wachtell, Lipton and Rosen & Katz will serve as the lobbying team of Alibaba and Duberstein.

December 23, the United States senate office had received the related records of lobbying team, then it issued to online. But the lobby about the takeover of Yahoo maybe has already started.

According to the law of the United States, lobby companies must disclosure of relevant files to the public in 45 days when they were in contact with officials formally. Alibaba’s record says, the matters had already launched on December 1, 2011 formally.

Yahoo Japan, the country’s No.2 online shopping site operator after Rakuten, wants to close the deal as early as June so that Japanese users can buy Chinese products through Yahoo Japan’s website and vice versa, a company spokesman said on Thursday.

Taobao is a group company of Chinese Internet giant Alibaba, whose investors include Japan’s Softbank. Softbank also has capital ties with Yahoo Japan.

Reuters reported last month that Alibaba was in talks with Softbank to form a tie-up to help merchants from their online marketplaces sell into each other’s markets.

Source : Konaxis

UBS AG, the sole underwriter, placed 57.5 million shares, at an indicated price range of HK$19.80 to HK$20.30 each, according to terms of the sale obtained by Dow Jones Newswire which valued the transaction at around $150m (£91m).

That sale gave Yahoo! a 47 percent profit on the stock’s IPO price of two years ago. The original lockup period on the IPO would have required Yahoo to hold onto the shares until November but that was waived in June.

Alibaba.com said in June that Yahoo, Cisco Systems Inc.,American International Group Inc. and other cornerstone investors would be allowed to sell their stakes immediately, five months before the expiry of a previously agreed lock-up agreement. The move was designed to boost liquidity of its shares, the Chinese company said at the time.

The California-based company still holds a 40% stake in the company?s unlisted parent, Alibaba Group, which owns about 70pc of Alibaba.com, giving Yahoo! a 28pc indirect interest in Alibaba.com.

John Spelich, Hong Kong-based vice president for international corporate affairs at Alibaba Group, said they welcomed the share sale. The sale will help the company achieve broader ownership of its stock, he said.

Source : Konaxis

According to the Stock Exchange Market information, Alibaba had a total of 57.475 shares before openning transactions on 2:30 pm, involving a total of 1.138 billion Hong Kong dollars.

According to sources yesterday Yahoo was selling 57.481 million shares Alibaba stocks through the UBS with a share price of 19.8 to 20.3 Hong Kong dollars, cash up to 1.167 billion Hong Kong dollars.

Regarding this, research report published by JP Morgan Chase said the action was only for Yahoo’s internal financial needs, which would not cause any negative impact on Alibaba business. According to Alibaba’s management recently, the company had a positive growth prospects in India, in addition they launched an international version platform-AliExpress, so JP Morgan Chase believed Alibaba fundamentals were still strong, expected it to have a flow allotment of shares increased from 24% to 25%, which had a positive impact on the stock. The Bank granted Alibaba “neutral” rating, target price was 22 Hong Kong dollars.

Today, sources disclosed news to the world network that in June twitter Sina would also introduce twitter service which has a name of Sina Friends. Before this, Chinese domestic market has more than ten websites similar to twitter, such as, Shuo Shuo, Fan Fou, Ji Wai and so on. Their main advantages are good supports to the Chinese language, as well as the binding to domestic mobile communications service providers and real-time chat tools. The leading sites have not been involved in this business yet.

Reporters contacted relevant Sina staff on the matter, Sina said they did not know this news .

Twitter is a variant of instant messaging, which allows users to send the their latest updates and ideas in the form of text messages sent to cell phones and personalized Web sites groups, rather than the individuals. In 2006, a blog technology leader-founder of blogger.com-Evan Williams created a new company-Obvious-launched a Twitter service. Initially, the service was only used for sending text messages to the friends’ mobile phones. By the end of 2006, Obvious upgraded the service, the user need not to enter their own phone numbers but to receive and send messages by real-time information services and personalized Twitter site.