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Jan. 10, 2013

Yahoo's $7.1 billion deal was largest ever

It would be an understatement to say Leif B. King knows Yahoo Inc. well by this point.


By Andrew McIntyre


Daily Journal Staff Writer

It would be an understatement to say Leif B. King knows Yahoo Inc. well by this point.


In 2005, when the Sunnyvale-based search engine bought a 40-percent stake in Chinese Internet giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. for $1 billion, King was there representing Yahoo. And when Yahoo and Alibaba reached an agreement last year for Yahoo to sell half of its Alibaba holdings to the company for a...

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