Chinese e-commerce site Alibaba has bought half of Yahoo’s stake in the company — 20 percent of Alibaba’s shares — back from Yahoo for $7.1 billion. Under the terms of the agreement, Yahoo will sell half its stake in Alibaba for at least $6… Tweet This Post

It’s been a bit of a sour year for Yahoo — it’s seen the departure of one of its founding fathers, suffered through a patent dispute with Facebook and lost its new CEO in a sea of scandalous accusations… Tweet This Post

Better World has been striving for, erm, a nicer planet with its battery-swapping approach to electric vehicles since as far back as 2008. There’s been a modicum of success, with outlets and swapping stations peppered as far and wide as Denmark, California, Australia and Japan… Tweet This Post

Stanford has been a hotbed of startup activity for decades, and it’s not just the engineering department. It’s student-run organizations like the Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students (BASES) program… Tweet This Post

The Samsung Focus 2 4G LTE pleasantly surprised me. I’ve had it for about a week now and I don’t want to give it back. That’s how much I like it. And that says a lot about Windows Phone. This was my first time using one for an extended period of time… Tweet This Post

Yesterday at Maker Faire Bay Area 2012 we visited the Electric Imp booth to chat with the startup’s founders and get some hands-on time with the tiny wireless computer. What is the Electric Imp? It’s a module containing an ARM Cortex M3 SoC with embedded WiFi that’s built into an SD card form factor… Tweet [...]

With a wedding ring on his finger and his company public, is Mark Zuckerberg ready to make Facebook produce more profits, not just more social connections? His fanfare-less marriage to long-time girlfriend Priscilla Chan this weekend would seem to indicate he won’t be getting too distracted by family life… Tweet This Post

When you’ve got a marketing budget the size of Nike’s, a few international footballers and a glossy video aren’t really enough. That’s why its latest “My time is now” campaign is an all out interactive spend-fest, complete with a hidden Sega Sonic the Hedgehog mini-game… Tweet This Post

File this in the “we-try-it-out-so-you-don’t-have-to” category. So.cl is a derivative social network that may be useful to students, but it won’t fly elsewhere. Over the weekend, Microsoft quietly launched an experimental social network called So… Tweet This Post

The speaker schedule for TechCrunch’s Disrupt NYC conference has been set for a while now, but three brand new presenters were just added to the lineup: The winners announced earlier today at the finale of this past weekend’s 24 hour Disrupt 2012 Hackathon, Thingscription, PoachBase, and PractiKhan… Tweet This Post

At long last, Yahoo has announced a plan to monetize its stake in Chinese internet company Alibaba. It’s complicated, and it will be in stages, but the process has begun, and Yahoo says it will get about $7… Tweet This Post

Remember that high-resolution variant of the Transformer Prime ASUS trotted out at CES? The federal government just finished putting it through its paces. The WiFi version of the firm’s upcoming Transformer Pad Infinity (formally numbered TF700T) sauntered its way through the FCC, revealing itself as the slate’s Tegra 3 option, if only for its lack [...]