Not a new development, but further confirmation that there may be one on the horizon. China’s Alibaba, Russian investor Digital Sky Technologies and U.S.-based VC firm Silver Lake are preparing a joint offer to buy Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), according to reports.

At long last, this is where Mail.ru Group - the new name for russian digital investor Digital Sky Technologies’ domestic assets - confirms it will IPO on the London Stock Exchange next month. The group wants to float about 15 percent of its shares for at least $500 million, Reuters…

Will Facebook backer Digital Sky Technologies go public before Facebook? The Russian internet investment group, which has accumulated a five percent stake in the social network, has hired Goldman Sachs, along with two other investment firms, to explore an IPO next year, according to a report in the WSJ. If…

An arm of the U.S Treasury is looking into concerns about AOL’s pending $187.5 million sale of instant messaging service ICQ to Russian investment group Digital Sky Technologies, due to fears that criminal investigations could be compromised, the FT reports (registration req.). ICQ, which was founded and run from Israel,…

Barely six months after raising $30 million in funding, social deal-finding site Groupon has received a huge $135 million add on from previous backer DST, the Russian investment group. Also participating in the round was Battery Ventures, which is new to Groupon. Part of the proceeds will go towards promoting…

Digital Sky Technologies, which has been busily investing hundreds of millions in American social media firms in recent months, now has a new backer of its own. Tencent, the big Chinese internet company, is investing $300 million in DST in exchange for a 10.26 percent stake; Tencent is also getting…

It’s not the IPO that everyone’s been hinting about, but social gamer Zynga has picked up a massive cash injection—$180 million in funding—in a round led by Russian investment group Digital Sky Technologies (DST). Yes, the same investment group that pumped $200 million into Facebook. Yes, the group that is…

Now that AOL (NYSE: AOL) CEO Tim Armstrong has said the most he’ll do with MapQuest is an operational partnership, not a sale, it looks like instant messaging service ICQ could be at the top of the sell list—and, according to multiple reports, Russia’s Digital Sky Technologies (DST) is interested.…

Digital Sky Technologies (DST), the Russian firm that recently paid $200 million for a two percent stake in Facebook, is playing puppet-master yet again. It’s merging Mail.ru, one of Russia’s most popular online portals, with massively-multiplayer online (MMO) game developer Astrum Online Entertainment, according to Vedomosti (via Quintura). It is…

And for his next trick, Mark Zuckerberg will boost the size of Facebook’s 1,000-person staff by as much as 50 percent this year while trying to stay in start-up mode and reach positive cash flow next year. During an interview with Bloomberg News, at least the published part, Zuckerberg almost…

Digital Sky Technologies London partner Alexander Tamas and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg (pictured, right) met with a steady stream of reporters Tuesday afternoon, explaining why a company with lots of money wanted such a small stake in Facebook—and why a company that says it needs no money took a new…

Russian internet investment fund Digital Sky Technologies has upped its stake in top-two portal and email host Mail.ru to 50.55 percent by buying 15 percent from Tiger Global Management. Business paper Vedomosti estimates the investment at $180 million to $200 million. Mail.ru had been planning a $2 billion IPO in…