Yahoo has divested half of its assets of the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, selling back to Alibaba its own company shares for $6.3 billion in cash and $800 million in preference shares and a one-time buyer’s fee of $500 million, for a grand sum of $7.6 billion that will go straight back into Yahoo’s pocket, according to All Things D.
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