●(□)● Alibaba.com primed the market for its first stock offering with a bullish profit report. Yahoo!, which owns about a quarter of the company, said revenue at the Chinese e-commerce giant surged 66 percent, to $3.1 billion, in the fourth quarter, while profit more than doubled, to $1.4 billion. Analysts say those numbers could push Alibaba's value to $15 billion if it moves forward with a U.S. IPO this year.
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