In a rare admission of ad fraud, Yahoo Japan plans to waive $189M in charges, or ~1.6% of parent company LY's FY 2023 revenue, after detecting fraudulent clicks
Admits it's not sure some clicks from from humans, points to bettter quality as sign not all is rotten
Line and SoftBank's Yahoo Japan announce merger plan, aim to sign a deal by December 2019, and integrate the businesses by October 2020
Nikkei Asian Review :
Line and SoftBank's Yahoo Japan announce merger plan, aim to sign a deal by December 2019, and integrate the businesses by October 2020
SoftBank and Naver's venture to be Japan's largest online player — TOKYO — The operators of Yahoo sites in Japan and the Line chat app jointly announced …
Sources: SoftBank's Yahoo Japan is in talks about merging with Naver's Line, Japan's leading chat app, creating a SoftBank subsidiary with 100M+ users in Japan
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Yahoo Japan agreed to issue a tender offer for a 50.1% stake in Japan's largest online fashion retailer, Zozotown; the deal will be worth up to $3.7B
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Yahoo Japan announces it will shut down its GeoCities service in March 2019, 22 years after its launch, citing profitability and technological issues
built one of my first websites on GeoCities. Club Alec. http://twitter.com/... Aaron Levie / @levie : This is senseless. http://twitter.com/...
Sources: Japan trade commission is investigating allegations that pressure from Apple forced Yahoo Japan to pull back from its web-based game platform Game Plus
SoftBank and Yahoo Japan partner with Paytm to launch a QR code-based mobile payment service, PayPay, in Japan by November, with no commission fees for 3 years
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SoftBank and Yahoo Japan partner with Paytm to launch a QR code-based mobile payment service PayPay in Japan by November, with no commission fees for 3 years
Barcode-based payment service ‘PayPay’ to be launched by November in a JV with Yahoo
How Marissa Mayer made $239M in her time at Yahoo: stock-heavy compensation buoyed by Yahoo's increasingly valuable Alibaba and Yahoo Japan investments
SAN FRANCISCO — When a withered Yahoo is absorbed by Verizon Communications in the next week or so, it will be the end of an era … Tweets: @profpadfield , @karaswisher , @markpinc , @dealbook , and @n...