The head of France Telecom complained on Thursday of interference after the state blocked plans by US Internet firm Yahoo! to buy a majority stake in French video-sharing website Dailymotion. In an interview with business newspaper Les Echos, chief executive Stephane Richard said the firm's management -- and not the government -- should be deciding the strategy for Dailymotion, owned by France Telecom, which uses the brand name Orange.

SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer emerged as the Internet company's second highest paid executive during her first five-and-half months on the job. Regulatory documents filed Tuesday revealed that Mayer received a pay package valued at $36.6 million last year. Most of the compensation consisted of stock awards that Mayer got in July when she left a job at Google to become Yahoo's CEO. Most of the components of Mayer's pay had been previously disclosed. It wasn't previously known that Mayer ranked second on Yahoo Inc.'s pay scale last year

NEW YORK, N.Y. - Alibaba Group, China's largest e-commerce company, has agreed to buy an 18 per cent stake in Sina Corp.'s Weibo, the microblogging platform. Alibaba, which is partly owned by Yahoo Inc., says it has paid $586 million for the stake in China's equivalent of Twitter. It has the option of increasing its ownership to 30 per cent. Sina's U.S.-listed shares jumped $6.69, or 13 per cent, to $56.99 in morning trading. The day's high of $60.81 was the stock's highest level since October.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - A Dutch citizen has been arrested in Spain in connection with what experts described as the biggest cyberattack in the history of the Internet, one launched against an anti-spam watchdog group last month, prosecutors announced Friday. The Netherlands National Prosecution Office said a 35-year-old suspect it identified only by his initials, S.K., was arrested Thursday at his home in Barcelona. Authorities also seized computers and mobile phones. Dutch prosecutors do not release full names of suspects, in line with privacy laws.