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- Icahn to resign from Yahoo board
- Billionaire Carl Icahn, who launched a proxy war for control of Yahoo after co-founder Jerry Yang rejected a Microsoft takeover last year, said he will resign from Yahoo's Board of Directors, according to reports. Noting that the board no longer needs an activist, Icahn said he is...
- Blog posts 2009-10-23
- 2008 Between the Lines
- Welcome to the year in Between the Linesâ€"in about 5 minutes I hope. 2008 was a wild one and January feels like it was 20 years ago. Here’s a brief recap…. January: The year kicks off with the usual Consumer electronics show, which is then upstaged by...
- Blog posts 2008-12-18
- Icahn averages down on Yahoo; Searches for break even
- Carl Icahn added to his stake in Yahoo just before Thanksgiving and bought more than 6.77 million shares. Naturally, folks need to find the meaning in Icahn's move. Kara Swisher notes that Icahn may have upped his investment because Jerry Yang's replacement is about to...
- Blog posts 2008-11-28
- Yahoo dips below $10; Icahn, board called out
- Yahoo's stock is struggling to stay above $10, the ad deal with Google is in the history books and Microsoft has been quick to say "Not interested." And CEO Jerry Yang has turned into the Internet whipping boy over it. But Kara Swisher over at AllThingsDigital poses...
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- Yahoo's board to meet: Will Icahn's gang make a difference?
- Yahoo's board will meet this week and billionaire investor Carl Icahn and his two directors--former Viacom CEO Frank Biondi and John Chapple, former CEO of Nextel Partners--will make their debut. According to the Wall Street Journal, Yahoo's board will have dinner Monday night and meet Tuesday to...
- Blog posts 2008-09-22
- Icahn: I'm not showing up to Yahoo's shareholder meeting
- Talk about anticlimactic: Billionaire investor and proxy war ninja Carl Icahn isn't going to bother showing up to Yahoo's shareholder meeting on Friday. In a post, Icahn--newly muzzled courtesy of a deal he cut with Yahoo--writes: I will not be attending. The proxy fight is over...
- Blog posts 2008-07-31
- Boo hoo: Pickens took a loss on Yahoo
- T. Boone Pickens reportedly dumped his 10 million shares and ripped Yahoo management for its dealings with Microsoft. Hey, Mr. Pickens look in the mirror. It's your loss and frankly you got what you deserved. For the record, Pickens has a pretty interesting energy plan that might...
- Blog posts 2008-07-29
- EIC podcast: Microsoft's analyst meeting; Icahn's deal; Facebook
- On this week's EIC squared podcast, Dan is back and we talk about Microsoft's analyst meeting, Kevin Johnson's departure from the software giant, Carl Icahn's deal with Yahoo and Facebook. The big news this week was Microsoft's financial meeting (see Mary Jo Foley and Ina Fried's coverage)...
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Icahn says he can't
- Add Carl Icahn to the list of parties trying to figure out what to do with Yahoo! who can’t. If he had a solid idea of how to set Yahoo! apart from Google, in particular, or Facebook and MySpace, along the way, he would have been...
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Yahoo and Icahn Reach Agreement
- The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Yahoo has reached an agreement with Carl Icahn, the activist investor who has been waging a proxy contest to unseat the board and push Yahoo closer to a deal with Microsoft. Yahoo said Mr. Icahn will join the board himself. The board...
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Yahoo, Icahn settle proxy fight: Assessing winners and losers
- Updated below: Yahoo and billionaire investor Carl Icahn have settled their looming proxy war. According to a statement Monday, Yahoo's board of directors will be expanded to 11 members and one of those seats will go to Icahn. The two remaining seats will be filled based on...
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Another call for Yahoo-Icahn compromise
- Carl Icahn's push to get a new slate of directors on board at Yahoo took another hit late Sunday when another shareholder stepped up to call for a compromise. According to Reuters, Eric Jackson, manager of hedge fund Ironfire Capital and leader of shareholder group Yahoo Plan B, will announce...
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Legg Mason takes Yahoo's side vs. Icahn; Yang takes campaign to home page
- Updated: Yahoo's argument that billionaire investor Carl Icahn is a short-timer with no clear plan to run the company has won over a key investor: Legg Mason. In addition, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang is taking the company's campaign to its home page. In a broadcast to employees...
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Yahoo: Icahn just a short-termer
- Yahoo once again delivered another shareholder letter Thursday designed to urge shareholders to vote for its board members at its Aug. 1 annual meeting. Yahoo's message: Billionaire investor Carl Icahn only has short-term interest n the company. In Yahoo Chairman's Roy Bostock's letter the company outlined the...
- Blog posts 2008-07-17
- Microhoo mudslinging: Icahn says Yahoo distorts facts of offer; Microsoft agrees
- The Microhoo saga gets messier by the minute and will probably get worse as we near the Aug. 1 shareholder meeting where Carl Icahn tries to boot Yahoo's board and CEO Jerry Yang. We're back to dueling letters again and the saga is very messy Techmeme. On...
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- Yahoo rejects latest Microsoft-Icahn proposal; Calls Microsoft 'erratic'
- Yahoo says it has rejected another offer from Microsoft and Carl Icahn. The latest offer, delivered Friday, was another gambit to acquire Yahoo's search business. Yahoo's overall message: If Microsoft is serious step up and buy the whole company "for at least $33 per share." Yahoo also...
- Blog posts 2008-07-13
- Yahoo posts Icahn scoreboard; Touts Google pact to shareholders
- Yahoo on Monday filed its shareholder pitch with the Securities and Exchange Commission as its proxy fight with activist investor Carl Icahn gathers steam. Much of the presentation was designed to "correct the record" on everything from the company's compensation plan to how the Microsoft bid went down. But Yahoo...
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Meet Jerry Yang, pinata
- So what's that water cooler conversation going to sound like at the Yahoo executive suite today? Probably something like this: Sue Decker: So Jerry how was your weekend? Jerry Yang: Not too bad. I didn't have to talk to Steve Ballmer so how bad...
- Blog posts 2008-06-16
- Daily Debrief: Yahoo's health checkup
- In Thursday's Daily Debrief, CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi and Dan Farber discuss the state of the company more than four months after Microsoft's takeover bid. What do all the recent staff departures mean and why hasn't Yahoo better articulated its plan to move forward?
- Videos 2008-06-12
- Icahn miffed at Yahoo response; Has Google envy too
- Another day another Carl Icahn to Roy Bostock letter. In this installment, our activist billionaire is annoyed by the Yahoo chairman's terse response to his previous letter. Hmm. Maybe these folks should just pick up the damn phone. Anyway, here's the letter. You can...
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
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