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AP - Yahoo Inc. shelled out $36 million in the first half of 2008 to the outside advisers that helped the company navigate stormy buyout talks with Microsoft Corp. and the ensuing proxy threat from Activist Investor Carl Icahn. ... Source: blogs.reuters.com --- 16 days ago
Despite a bankruptcy filing by home builder WCI Communities, its chairman may just have a reason to smile. Carl Icahn has to be glad he did not end up buying all of WCI Communities last year. In March 2007, after talks with the company did not go anywhere, the Activist Investor launched a tender offer for all [...] ... Source: blogs.reuters.com --- 5 days ago
George Soros must see something he likes in Lehman Brothers. Or maybe he just likes a good bargain. Or maybe he's been talking to Activist Investor Carl Icahn. ... Source: news.cnet.com --- 14 days ago
Now the fireworks and fractiousness can officially move inside Yahoo: Activist Investor Carl Icahn is part of the Internet company's board. Icahn had tried to take over the entire board in July, but settled for a seat of his own and for two of his allies . In a regulatory ... ... Source: www.technologyowl.com.com --- 6 days ago
As expected, Yahoo has just appointed former Viacom CEO Frank Biondi Jr. and former Nextel Partners CEO John Chapple to its board. They're two of the slate proposed by Activist Investor Carl Icahn before he gave up his proxy fight... ...
Source: www.moreover.com --- 7 days ago
Yahoo Inc. shelled out $36 million in the first half of 2008 to the outside advisers that helped the company navigate stormy buyout talks with Microsoft Corp. and the ensuing proxy threat from Activist Investor Carl Icahn. ... Source: blogs.zdnet.com --- 6 days ago
Yahoo appointed former Viacom CEO Frank J. Biondi, Jr. and John H. Chapple, former CEO of Nextel Partners, to its board of directors, filling the two new seats created when Activist Investor Carl Icahn agreed to drop his proxy fight for control of the board last month. Icahn is also a new board member. Frank Biondi has served as senior managing director of WaterView Advisors LLC, a private equity limited partnership focused on media and entertainment, since 1999. Chapple has served as president of Hawkeye Investments LLC, a privately-owned equity firm investing primarily in telecommunications and real estate ventures, since October 2006. Former AOL chief executive Jonathan Miller had reportedly been a favorite to take one of the seats but... ... Source: blogs.zdnet.com --- 6 days ago
Yahoo appointed former Viacom CEO Frank J. Biondi, Jr. and John H. Chapple, former CEO of Nextel Partners, to its board of directors, filling the two new seats created when Activist Investor Carl Icahn agreed to drop his proxy fight for control of the board last month. Icahn is also a new board member. Frank Biondi [...] ... Source: www.techcrunch.com --- 19 days ago
The Yahoo shareholder meeting is going on right now, but already not everything is going according to plan. Yahoo was able to avoid a showdown today with Activist Investor Carl Icahn by agreeing to open up three board seats. Icahn is taking one, and the board will vote for the other two members. [...] ... Source: blogs.wsj.com --- 6 days ago
Carl Icahn: as an Activist Investor he is the speedy hare, but the corporate raider is a bit of a turtle when sitting on the company’s bench in the takeover game. Two weeks after drug maker Bristol-Myers Squibb made its unsolicited $60-a-share offer for the rest of ImClone Systems, the New York biotechnology company finally named [...] ... Source: seattlepi.nwsource.com --- 6 days ago
Yahoo Inc. shelled out $36 million in the first half of 2008 to the outside advisers that helped the company navigate stormy buyout talks with Microsoft Corp. and the ensuing proxy threat from Activist Investor Carl Icahn. ... Source: ftalphaville.ft.com --- 14 days ago
It's tough fighting corporate tyranny, making billions and maintaining your own blog, as Carl Icahn, the zillionaire Activist Investor, since his dramatic and much-heralded entry to the world of blogging earlier this year. Now, reports DealBook, he’s about to get some help. The Activist shareholder has hired Dane Hamilton,... ... Source: news.zdnet.co.uk --- 6 days ago
The internet company is reportedly close to appointing John Chapple and Frank Biondi Jr as additional board members, as part of its settlement agreement with Activist Investor Carl Icahn ... Source: www.macnn.com --- 16 days ago
Yahoo investors at the company's shareholders meeting have voted to keep executives suggested through a last-minute deal with Activist Investor Carl Icahn. The vote keeps nearly all of the existing leaders of the company and showed an unexpected level of confidence in particularly vocal opponents of Microsoft's initial takeover bid for Yahoo, incl... ... Source: seekingalpha.com --- 13 hours ago
Markham Lee submits: Here is an interesting look at the share performance of companies Activist Investor Carl Icahn has become involved with: Complete Story » ... Source: seekingalpha.com --- 13 days ago
Diane Mermigas submits: Corporate credibility has been the big loser in Yahoo's (YHOO) ongoing saga to find itself. Yahoo's board of directors meets August 15 to appoint two new members who will join Activist Investor Carl Icahn in providing a so-called minority checks and balance. Two of the leading candidates are former Viacom (VIA) CEO Frank Biondi and former Grey Global Group CEO Ed Meyer. Complete Story » ... Source: www.hardocp.com --- 7 days ago
Wow. Not counting the latest round of buyout talks, Yahoo spent $36 million fighting off Microsofts $47.5 billion dollar offer. Yahoo Inc. shelled out $36 million in the first half of 2008 to the outside advisers that helped the company navigate stormy buyout talks with Microsoft Corp. and the ensuing proxy threat from Activist Investor Carl Icahn. Comments ... Source: www.siliconvalley.com --- 19 days ago
Having very publicly bullied his way onto Yahoo’s board, Activist Investor Carl Icahn has now decided that when it comes to facing a large and likely irritable crowd of fellow shareholders, his place should be in the shadows. Icahn said today he wouldn’t be making an appearance at Yahoo’s annual meeting tomorrow, at which he’s expected to be voted to the board as part of a compromise that ended his threatened proxy fight. He begged off, saying, “It will not do share ... Find more results for Activist Investor Carl Icahn on RSSMicro.com |
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CNET - Yahoo is close to appointing John Chapple and Frank Biondi Jr. as its two additional board members, as it nears its Friday deadline to expand its board as part of a settlement agreement with Activist Investor Carl Icahn, according to sources. ...
Yahoo is close to appointing John Chapple and Frank Biondi Jr. as its two additional board members, as it nears its Friday deadline to expand its board as part of a settlement agreement with Activist Investor Carl Icahn, according to sources. The Internet company had agreed to select two candidates ... ...