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BEIJING, Feb. 23 (Xinhuanet) — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd’s bid to privatize its Hong Kong-listed business-to-business arm, Alibaba.com Ltd, could help the company retune its operating strategy and add flexibility to ongoing negotiations with Yahoo Inc, said analysts. “Privatizing Alibaba Group’s B2B sector is one of the steps for the company to build a more efficient and cooperative e-commerce platform,” …

The Alibaba Group offers up to $2.5 billion to take its Hong Kong-listed B2B trading platform private, four years after the company went public. The market gave a thumbs up yesterday to Alibaba Group’s proposal to privatise its Hong Kong listed business-to-business (B2B) unit Alibaba.com a little more than four years after it went public. Or how else does one …