investment in alibab and whether or not that could be diluted overtime it is worth $10 billion half of yahoo!'sket cap right now. yahoo! stock took it on the chin last week after that came down. lost more than 10% of its value during that time they are seemingly caught unawares by all this although alibab said it warned yahoo! well in advance this was going to happen. we will see what happens and whether or not they can resolve differences and what what means. a lot at stake going on in europe par lick lairly with the debt -- particularly with the debt crisis after the arrest over the weekend of the managing director of the international monetary fund. the imf is a key player in resolving that debt crisis and his arrest could throw some of that into disarray, in fact a lot of the bailouts going on for greece and ireland and potential for portugal, may not be enough and more money may be needed to help the country's out the euro fell against the dollar, one reason why the stock market fell on friday the dow lost 100 points, markets sliding a little bit further nervousness over that issue the dow

they ended up being complicit and jailing several dissidents because when the police showed up in yahoo!'s beijing office, if their chinese staff refused to happened over information, they too would go to jail. so that put them in a difficult position. when google went in, they chose not to offer a chinese version of gmail, and they decided to draw that line at, okay, we're not going to host user content inside china because we don't want to be in a portion of sharing it with the chinese police, but we'll experiment with the censoring of the search engine kind of thing. and they did that for a few years and ended up deciding they didn't want to do that anymore and moved their search engine out. and microsoft is still in there with their search engine and, you know, it's not being used by many people. they're trying to split the difference a little more in terms of notifying users that censorship is happening and kind of telling the government we're only going to respond to legally-binding requests, and we're not going to respond to just some random phone call from a cop, you know? we need

s&p up 1.5. >>> today yahoo! starts moving its $277 million -- 277 million e-mail users to its new format.hey say overhaul will let users update facebook and twitter accounts while in yahoo! boxes. yahoo! has been testing the new format for nearly a year. it remains larger than g-mail but google's e-mail service has been growing and has more advertisers. >>> fans of lady gaga are apparently too much for amazon.com. they offered her album "born this way" for 99 cents yesterday in a download only offer. that one-day sale sparked a huge response bringing traffic on the site to a crawl and leaving some fans without the album. now, amazon says anyone who ordered the album yesterday will still be able to download it for the promotional price. >>> and toyota wants owners and their cars to be friends on facebook. starting next year, owners of plug-in hybrids an electric cars will be able to chat with their cars through a facebook page. owners will be able to check on tire pressure or battery power or issue commends including telling the car to warm up the seats on a cold day. the system is still i

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