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Yahoo: Our poison pill isn't 'nuts'; Icahn guessing at plan costs

Yahoo: Our poison pill isn't 'nuts'; Icahn guessing at plan costsMany, many comments and ideas...prestented during the discussions about MS's takeover of Yahoo discussed either a massive walkout of employees or MS firing many employees. It was said many times that current Yahoo employees just wouldn't stand for the Microsoftation...

Tags: Icahn, Yang and Co., Yahoo! Inc., poison pill

Discussion threads 2008-06-10

Yahoo: Our poison pill isn't 'nuts'; Icahn guessing at plan costs

Yahoo in an SEC filing fired its latest volley at billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn and defended its employee compensation plan. The company, embroiled in a proxy war with Icahn, outlined an FAQ that it sent employees. The key excerpts: Mr. Icahn says this Plan costs...

Tags: Benefits, Enterprise Software, Finance, Financial Services, Human Resources, Investment, Larry Dignan, Plan, Poison Pill, Software, Vertical Industries, Yahoo! Inc.

Blog posts 2008-06-10

Icahn on Yahoo: I'd hire a 'talented and experienced' CEO

In his latest missive to Yahoo's board of directors, activist shareholder Carl Icahn blasts chairman Roy Bostock and outlines what he'd do if he gets control of the company's board. Right after he ditched Yahoo's poison pill, Icahn said he would "ask our new board to hire a talented...

Tags: Poison Pill, Shareholder, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Plan, CEO, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-06

Reaction to Yahoo's Microsoft-inspired poison pill: 'That's nuts'

Reaction to Yahoo's Microsoft-inspired poison pill: 'That's nuts'Can't get past the employee part...It was truly written by people that don't understand what was going to happen on the inside for the employees. There was not going to be some smooth transition and retention if MS was going to start...

Tags: Microsoft-inspired poison pill, Yahoo! Inc., poison pill, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-06-02

Reaction to Yahoo's Microsoft-inspired poison pill: 'That's nuts'

Yahoo's poison pill--adopted by the company to thwart a Microsoft takeover--was deemed "nuts" by outside consulting firm Compensia. That nugget was the big takeaway from an unsealed complaint Techmeme and PDF of suit by Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann, a Michigan lawfirm suing Yahoo on behalf of...

Tags: Poison Pill, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Tale, Corporate Governance, Benefits, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Human Resources, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-02

Additional Resources

Psystar's Thermopylae: The Nightmare Hypervisor Arrives

Miami, Florida-based Psystar, which is currently under litigation from Apple for producing Mac-compatible clones and is counter litigating the company for monopolistic practices, has announced that they are OEM licensing their virtualization technology and ICAP so that any PC vendor may easily produce Mac clones. ...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Hypervisor, Apple Inc., Psystar, Apple Mac OS X, Cloud Computing, Apple Mac OS, Storage Management, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Storage, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-05

Jeff Bezos offers apology for Orwellian mistake

Jeff Bezos offers apology for Orwellian mistakePerfect! The reason I will NEVER buy, use, or recommend a Kindle......or its equivalent, in easy-to-swallow, poison-pill form.Thanks so much for this story.Huh?Why wrong?If you as the end consumer, buy stolen goods, you don't get to keep them!So I'm guessing you are protesting the...

Tags: E-books, Viruses and worms, Jeff Bezos, Orwellian, Amazon.com Inc., refund

Discussion threads 2009-07-27

Broadcom ups hostile offer for Emulex; Sets July 14 deadline

Broadcom raised its hostile takeover bid for Emulex from $9.25 a share to $11 a share and told its target that it shouldn't get too cocky about its future prospects. The message from Broadcom: Without a buyout Emulex is unlikely to see $11 a share for a while. ...

Tags: Broadcom Corp., Emulex Corp., Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-30

Broadcom makes $764 million bid for Emulex

After an earlier snub, Broadcom Corp. BRCM today made an unsolicited offer to buy Emulex Corp. ELX for $764 million, or $9.25 a share, in a bid that represents a 40 percent premium over Emulex's closing price of $6.61 yesterday. Broadcom disclosed its offer after sending a...

Tags: Broadcom Corp., Emulex Corp., Data Centers, Cellular Phones, Wireless And Mobility, Semiconductors, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-04-21

Report: Sun and IBM clashed over executive pay

Report: Sun and IBM clashed over executive payGreed is good... right?Figures that talks would break down because some greedy SOB isn't content with millions of dollars alone, but want even more.RE: Report: Sun and IBM clashed over executive payLet them fail. Who cares. None of their products can't...

Tags: Benefits, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-04-07

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...

Tags: Google Inc., Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, IT-spending Expectation, Document Management, Social Networking, Financial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-18

Live from IDF: Entertainment, WiMax and a sense of security.

When you're talking tech, it never hurts to have a convertible BMW on stage with you. The afternoon keynote speeches at the Intel Developer Forum covered a lot of ground and some eye candy to keep us focused on what a couple of hours of geek speak can morph into,...

Tags: Security, Laptop Computer, Entertainment, Computer, Intel Corp., WiMAX, Advertising & Promotion, Productivity, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Notebooks, Marketing, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-08-19

Forbes rewrites the history of open source

Forbes rewrites the history of open sourceI guess it was a political articleYou just convinced me that the purpose of this article in Forbes being written was to score political points. Which makes its rewriting of history doubly-disgusting.Libertarian?I'm pretty sure the GPL is normally associated with socialism, not libertarianism. Libertarians...

Tags: open source, Forbes, libertarian, software

Discussion threads 2008-08-18

Psystar's Thermopylae won't end Apple's clone nightmare

Apple may win the battle, but they'll lose the war, eventually. Well, that was predictable, really. A small startup in Florida decides to go make Mac clones, and surprise, surprise, Apple starts legal proceedings and unleashes the might of...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Psystar, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Virtualization, Operating Systems, Desktops, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-07-16

Yahoo's desperate search times call for open source

Yahoo's desperate search times call for open sourceBuilding a better search will only...make Yahoo more appealing to MS. Just because it's Open will in no way deter MS. They still want the company and if Icahn wins it will be theirs. The fact that Yahoo is open source is one...

Tags: Hindsight, Yahoo! Inc., open source, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-10

Top 10 things Michael Arrington should do to protest Microsoft's bad behavior

Top 10 things Michael Arrington should do to protest Microsoft's bad behaviorCorrect me if I'm wrongFrom what I understand, MS has [b]zero[/b] power over Yahoo stockholders. MS made an offer, the board rejected it, and some major stockholders believe the board made a mistake. To say MS and Icahn are...

Tags: Corporate governance, Financial accounting, Now Microsoft, Microsoft Corp., Arrington, Yahoo! Inc., Icahn, Michael Arrington, board

Discussion threads 2008-07-08

News to know: Firefox 3; Patch Tuesday; SocialCalc

Notable headlines: Paula Rooney: All systems are go for Firefox 3 launch; RC3 needed for Mac OSX only Nate McFeters: What's wrong with an exploit being sexy? Ryan Naraine: Critical IE, Bluetooth, DirectX flaws highlight MS Patch...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, CIO, Mozilla Firefox, 3G, Apple Mac OS X, Desktop Virtualization, Web Browsers, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Internet, David Grober

Blog posts 2008-06-11

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...

Tags: Shareholder, Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Plan, Carl Icahn, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-09

Carl and Yahoo's dueling banjo routine gets old

See Carl Icahn blast Jerry Yang and Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock over a compensation plan to fend off a Microsoft bid. See Roy tell Carl he's manipulating facts and using allegations from a complaint that has no merit. See Larry's eyes glaze over. Anyone else sick of...

Tags: Jerry Yang, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-05

Icahn: I want Yang gone from Yahoo

Updated: The disclosure of a complaint against Yahoo over its poison pill has predictably wound up activist shareholder Carl Icahn. The takeaway from an interview in the Wall Street Journal: Icahn wants to remove Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang. Icahn has already launched a proxy war and plans...

Tags: Board, Yahoo! Inc., Shareholder Carl Icahn, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-03