Billionaire Investor Carl Icahn

Source: tipadept.com --- 16 days ago
For months, Billionaire Investor and shareholder activist Carl Icahn has been threatening to launch a blog so he could vent about corporate governance issues of the day. Now, it appears, that day is nigh. Icahn said Wednesday that his new blog, The Icahn Report, would go live this afternoon. "We're finally getting it together," Icahn said. Although he announced the blog in January, and even reserved the domain name (www.icahnreport.com), Icahn has yet to weigh in with any entries. For the past month, at least, he's been otherwise engaged, firing public salvos at the board of directors and CEO of Yahoo, criticizing it for not accepting Microsoft's recent takeover offer. In an interview, Icahn said his first post wouldn't involve his battle with Yahoo, but would be concerned with the larger issue of accountability in the boardroom. "The question of accountability in this country is very, very important, and corporate democracy is a bit of a myth," he said. "Right now, the system is not really working." Icahn may be a new presence on the Internet, but he's a familiar voice in the ongoing debate over corporate governance. Over an investing career that has spanned three decades, Icahn has consistently criticized do-nothing boards of directors and overpaid CEOs. Most recently, he has complained about the amount of money made by Yahoo board members ($10,000 a week) and the severance negotiated between Blockbuster's board and former CEO John ...

Source: www.topix.com --- 34 days ago
WASHINGTON : Federal antitrust regulators have cleared activist Billionaire Investor Carl Icahn's purchase of another $1.5 billion of shares of Internet company Yahoo Inc. ...

Source: us.rd.yahoo.com --- 5 days ago
   Reuters - Yahoo Inc on Monday sought to rally shareholder support for its board of directors and management amid a proxy battle with Billionaire Carl Icahn, saying the Investor had outlined an "ill-defined plan" for the future of the Internet company. ...

Source: articles.moneycentral.msn.com --- 5 days ago
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc on Monday sought to rally shareholder support for its board of directors and management amid a proxy battle with Billionaire Carl Icahn, saying the Investor had outlined an "ill-defined plan" for its future. ...

Source: au.rd.yahoo.com --- 5 days ago
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo on Monday sought to rally shareholder support in the face of a proxy battle with Billionaire Carl Icahn, saying the activist Investor had an "ill-defined plan" for the future of the Internet company. ...

Source: dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com --- 9 days ago
Carl C. Icahn isn’t backing down from his Yahoo fight. Even as the company embraces Google — a move that the Billionaire Investor at one point supported — Mr. Icahn on Thursday finally filed his bid to sweep out Yahoo’s board, despite skepticism that he will prevail. Mr. Icahn filed the statement on the same day that [...] ...

Source: dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com --- 6 days ago
From our colleagues at Bits: In a new pitch to shareholders on Monday, Yahoo insisted that its current board is better prepared to lead the company than an alternate slate proposed by Carl Icahn, the Billionaire Investor who is leading a proxy fight to take control. Yahoo’s pitch, made in a press release and Investor presentation filed [...] ...

Source: www.washingtonpost.com --- 4 days ago
Blockbuster yesterday abandoned its efforts to acquire the Richmond-based electronics retailer Circuit City despite financial backing from Billionaire Investor and board member Carl C. Icahn. ...

Source: www.reuters.com --- 5 days ago
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc on Monday sought to rally shareholder support in the face of a proxy battle with Billionaire Carl Icahn, saying the activist Investor had an "ill-defined plan" for the future of the Internet company. ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 11 days ago
Billionaire Investor Carl Icahn has sold $4.3 million in shares of The Greenbrier Cos., reducing his stake in the railcar maker to 8.17 percent, according to a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission made public Friday. ...

Source: infotech.indiatimes.com --- 35 days ago
US antitrust regulators have given Billionaire Investor Carl Icahn the go-ahead to purchase large blocks of Yahoo stock, the Federal Trade Commission said on Friday. ...

Source: www.marketwatch.com --- 35 days ago
Billionaire activist Investor Carl Icahn gets FTC clearance to buy Yahoo Inc.’s stock as part of his effort to launch a proxy fight to replace the company's board of directors, according to a filing posted Friday. ...

Source: www.boston.com --- 16 days ago
It was over before it began. After months of campaigning and badgering, Billionaire Investor Carl Icahn's slate of three directors challenging company nominees at Biogen Idec Inc. came up on the short end of a shareholder vote yesterday, and it didn't appear to be a close contest. ...

Source: www.marketwatch.com --- 16 days ago
A Yahoo Inc. Investor has asked Microsoft Corp. to spell out its partnership proposal to the company's shareholders as a way of boosting Billionaire Carl Icahn's bid to take over the struggling Web portal. ...

Source: uk.reuters.com --- 15 days ago
BANGALORE (Reuters) - Billionaire Investor Carl Icahn cut his stake in Greenbrier Cos Inc to 8.17 percent, after a deal he was negotiating between the railroad equipment supplier and American Railcar Industries fell through. ...

Source: www.marketwatch.com --- 9 days ago
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Billionaire Investor Carl Icahn has filed a preliminary proxy in his campaign to boot out the board of directors of Yahoo Inc. In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the dissident shareholder said he plans to eliminate the company's change in control severance plan, hire "a talented and experienced CEO" to replace Yahoo Chief Jerry Yang and offer to sell Yahoo to Microsoft Corp. "in a friendly and cooperative transaction." ...

Source: portland.bizjournals.com --- 16 days ago
Billionaire Investor Carl Icahn has sold $4.3 million in shares of The Greenbrier Cos., reducing his stake in the railcar maker to 8.17 percent, according to a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission made public Friday. (GBX) (ARII) ...

Source: triangle.bizjournals.com --- 17 days ago
Billionaire Investor Carl Icahn has lost a proxy battle with drug company Biogen Idec. ...

Source: www.theglobeandmail.com --- 32 days ago
Embattled search company braced for proxy battle with Billionaire activist Investor Carl Icahn ...