Yahoo Falls After Restructuring of Alibaba Payment Business
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Yahoo! Inc. had its biggest decline in almost a year amid concern that its stake in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. may lose value after the Chinese company ceded ownership of its online-payment business.
The payment business of Alibaba Group, which is about 40 percent owned by Yahoo, was restructured so that its Alipay unit is now controlled by a separate company, according to a filing yesterday. Yahoo said the shift -- to a company mostly owned by Alibaba Group Chief Executive Officer Jack Ma -- was necessary to expedite getting a license for Alipay.