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- 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...
- Tags: Shareholder, Yahoo! Inc., Carl Icahn, Financial Accounting, Corporate Governance, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-17
- Can AOL make or break the Microsoft-Yahoo deal? Mark your calendars.
- AOL has reportedly made its way into the Microsoft-Yahoo story and, once again, there's a feeling of uncertainty surrounding its future. Back in the day, AOL was one of the biggest names on the Internet and its merger with Time Warner drew huge headlines. But since then,...
- Tags: Shareholder, Time Warner Inc., America Online Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Accounting, Corporate Law, Corporate Governance, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Yahoo posts Icahn scoreboard; Touts Google pact to shareholders
- Yahoo posts Icahn scoreboard; Touts Google pact to shareholdersCome on Yahoo!Show the money grabbers that the company is worth more than M$'s dollars!Yahoo should just DIAF... I'm almost sure this will go down as a huge failure of fiduciary duty of the board towards the shareholders . Also, Who would...
- Tags: Financial accounting, Yahoo! Inc., shareholder, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-30
- 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...
- Tags: Shareholder, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Carl Icahn, Reorg, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Hey genius, they want you.
- Hey genius, they want you.Was that supposed to be a blog? wowYou definitely deserve a hug after that blogGreat post Zack, you are starting to come into your own.You have me laughing. Them there "Americans" are pretty strange.RE: Hey genius, they want you.wow...First time I've rolled across your blog...
- Tags: Blogging, genius, blog
- Discussion threads 2008-06-11
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Icahn: I want Yang gone from Yahoo
- Icahn: I want Yang gone from YahooThat's grounds for white collar crime.The illegal hiding of important facts from shareholders is basically a criminal act.Let's hope the REAL OWNERS the shareholder get to do what they want, and not what Yang wants.RE: Icahn: I want Yang gone from YahooWhile the stockholders...
- Tags: Corporate governance, E-mail providers, Yahoo! Inc., Icahn, Yang, Balmer, shareholder, board, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-03
- More things about the Microsoft-Yahoo deal that make you go hmmmm
- More things about the Microsoft-Yahoo deal that make you go hmmmmYang regretful?First there is an error Mary, MSFT made an offer in Jan. 2007 for $40 a share not $40b. Yang sounds regretful. You are right, but everybody know what it means. Important thing is why MSFT has lost interest....
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., MSFT, Yang, Microsoft Corp., shareholder
- Discussion threads 2008-06-03
- What Yahoo doesn't want you to know about the Microsoft deal
- What Yahoo doesn't want you to know about the Microsoft dealthat's classic egoclassic ego triumphs over what's best for the employees and shareholdersOUCHBasicallyOwners have a very good case to sue Yahoo.And yes I DO MEAN OWNERS, as Yang does not own all of Yahoo and does not have the final...
- Tags: Financial accounting, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Deal, Yang, shareholder, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-03
- Market disconnects
- Last November 12th, the day of the 1:4 reverse stock split, Sun's shares closed at $20.33 for a market cap of around $15.7 billion. Six months later, on May 12th, they closed at $13.42 for a market cap of about $10.3 billion - a 34% decrease over...
- Tags: Shareholder, Market Capitalization, Trader, Sun Microsystems Inc., Financial Accounting, Finance, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- Yahoo postpones shareholder meeting and more Microsoft tidbits
- Yahoo postpones shareholder meeting and more Microsoft tidbitsAll Yahoo's postponement will do....Is give more time for the eggs to rot some more and stink even worse when they're tossed at Jerry Yang by disgruntled shareholders.PDF => ODF> I wonder what really pushed Microsoft to do> an about-face on adding ODF...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Financial accounting, OpenDocument Format, shareholder, Yahoo! Inc., shareholder meeting, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-23
- Yahoo postpones shareholder meeting and more Microsoft tidbits
- I've been out on tour for my new Microsoft 2.0 book this week and haven't been posting as regularly as usual. So here's a grab bag of a few Microsoft-related notes of interest. * Yahoo has postponed its shareholder meeting. Just when you thought the seemingly-never-ending Microsoft-Yahoo...
- Tags: Shareholder, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, Microsoft Windows, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Virtualization, Corporate Governance, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Operating Systems, Microsoft Office, Software, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Office Suites, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-23
- Yahoo board of director resigns; Shareholder meeting delayed
- Yahoo board of director resigns; Shareholder meeting delayedMisleading post title?The story only says about one director resigning, but the title makes it sound as if the entire board resigned!What the...?That's some jaw-dropping headline you have there. I thought you just left out the 's' in directors. Better change...
- Tags: Corporate governance, SHAREHOLDER MEETING DELAYED, Yahoo board, board, Yahoo! Inc., shareholder
- Discussion threads 2008-05-22
- Yahoo board of director resigns; Shareholder meeting delayed
- Yahoo said Thursday that Edward Kozel resigned from its board of directors. The company will reduce the size of its board from 10 directors to nine and delayed its shareholder meeting from July 3 to "around the end of July 2008." Investor Carl Icahn has proposed an...
- Tags: Shareholder, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Mr., Director, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
- Run by Wall Street? A Cause or a Company?
- Guest post: Anshu Sharma is author of Anshu's blog, which focuses on Software as a Service and the emerging SaaS Ecosystem. He is an Enterprise Irregular. In light of the Yahoo! - Microsoft fiasco, fellow bloggers Larry Dignan and Vinnie Mirchandani have been asking the question whether...
- Tags: Shareholder, Yahoo! Inc., Vision, Wall, Management Team, Software As A Service (SaaS), Financial Accounting, Construction, Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Management, Anshu Sharma
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Icahn launches Yahoo proxy fight; Mark Cuban's return?
- As expected, billionaire Carl Icahn launched his proxy war to turn over Yahoo's board of directors and one of his nominees is Mark Cuban, who sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo and then took those funds to buy the Dallas Mavericks. Just for entertainment value I may buy a...
- Tags: Shareholder, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Chairman, Mr., Mark Cuban, Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Director, Yahoo Shareholder, Bebchuk, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Icahn reportedly preps his board slate for Yahoo
- Icahn reportedly preps his board slate for YahooDefinitely entertainingSeems to me, though, that Yahoo's employees, customers, and users could stand a little less excitement.
- Tags: Corporate governance, Icahn, Yahoo! Inc., board
- Discussion threads 2008-05-14
- Wall Street: Too much sway over the tech sector?
- Wall Street: Too much sway over the tech sector?Yes butThis is a constant refrain. The short termism we see dominates the way tech companies behave.. It's dark side is what happens when companies get over awed eg i2. I'm glad so many of the newbies are not looking for exits...
- Tags: Investment, Financial accounting, sway, technology sector, shareholder, stock
- Discussion threads 2008-05-09
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