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Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (BABA.N) offered to pay $3.5 billion to become the sole owner of Youku Tudou Inc (YOKU.N), known as China's YouTube, in a move that would give the e-commerce giant access to more than half a billion online video users.

BEIJING: Buyers of abducted children in China will face criminal punishment under proposed laws that would remove an exemption from prosecution, reports said Thursday, as authorities clamp down on the flourishing child trafficking industry.

CALIFORNIA:  Professional social network operator LinkedIn Corp said it would buy privately held online education company lynda.com in a cash-and-stock deal valued at about $1.5 billion (1.01 billion pounds).

GENEVA: Internet giant Yahoo has put in a bid of around $250 million to buy Fullscreen, a company which creates content for YouTube channels,...

SAN FRANCISCO: Google Inc said on Tuesday it is acquiring satellite company Skybox Imaging for $500 million in cash, the Internet company's second high-profile...

BANGKOK: State-owned China Mobile Ltd is poised to buy an 18 percent stake in Thai telecoms group True Corp valued at around $581 million,...