Yahoo Board Seats

Source: dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com --- 26 days ago
Yahoo is in the process of approving the appointments of former Viacom chief executive Frank Biondi and former Nextel chief executive John Chapple to its Board and is expected to name the appointees by Friday, Reuters reported on Tuesday citing an unnamed source. ...

Source: www.marketwatch.com --- 26 days ago
SAN FRANCISCO (Marketwatch) -- Yahoo Inc. is preparing to name two new members nominated by billionaire activist Carl Icahn to its Board of directors by the end of the week, according to a report late Tuesday in The Wall Street Journal. ...

Source: www.pcworld.com --- 24 days ago
Yahoo has picked two candidates from Carl Icahn's slate to fill two empty Board Seats. ...

Source: www.computerworld.com --- 23 days ago
Yahoo has picked two candidates from Carl Icahn's slate to fill two empty Board Seats: Former Viacom CEO Frank J. Biondi Jr. and former Nextel CEO John H. Chapple. ...

Source: www.clarionledger.com --- 23 days ago
Yahoo Inc. said Thursday it will add the former chief executives of Viacom and Nextel Partners to its Board of directors as part of the company's deal to ward off a proxy fight with billionaire investor Carl Icahn. ...

Source: reseller.co.nz --- 24 days ago
Company has picked two candidates from Carl Icahn's slate ...

Source: www.superiorinvestor.net --- 35 days ago
Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) just announced they’ve appointed Carl Icahn to their Board of Directors. Yahoo has reserved two director positions for his nominees. Current director Robert Kotick will leave. This decision was made to settle a proxy battle and to delay a hostile takeover from Microsoft Corporation. (NASDAQ:MSFT) Icahn is an activist investor that sought to oust [...] ...

Source: news.google.com --- 38 days ago
Sify Will Yahoo CEO get an earful today at shareholders meeting? San Jose Mercury News - 26 minutes ago By Elise Ackerman After successfully fending off takeover attempts by Microsoft and billionaire Carl Icahn, Yahoo Chief Executive Jerry Yang could face a new group of critics today: mom-and-pop shareholders. Yahoo's Yang Has Little to Show Investors After Icahn Truce Bloomberg Having Won his Board Seats, Icahn Decides To Skip Yahoo ... Washington Post Reuters  - The Associated Press  - USA Today  - CNNMoney.com all 457 news articles ...

Source: news.cnet.com --- 26 days ago
With former AOL CEO Jonathan Miller apparently out of the picture , Yahoo is close to settling on two other directors from Carl Icahn's dissident slate. Icahn, who had been seeking to grab control of Yahoo's Board , agreed ahead of a shareholder meeting to a deal that gave him just three Seats on the Board . ... ...

Source: www.washingtonpost.com --- 21 days ago
Yahoo is expected to name its two new Board members by the end of the week. What's interesting is that one may come from the wireless industry?John Chapple, the Chairman and CEO of Nextel Partners. My colleague Joe Weisenthal at paidcontent.org reports today that the new Board Seats are part of the Yahoo's ( NSDQ: YHOO) settlement with Carl Icahn, which required the company to expand its Board to 11, and let Icahn and two of his allies be appointed. Kara Swisher atAllThingsDreported earlier today that Yahoo was honing in on Frank Biondi and ex ad exec Edward Meyer. And the other one, WSJ is now likely to beJohn Chapple. Even though Weisenthal calls Chapple "far from the most exciting or pivotal aspect of this story," a lot of you may know him well. ...

Source: www.techcrunch.com --- 37 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.zdnet.com --- 24 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.marketwatch.com --- 24 days ago
Yahoo Inc. names two new members to its Board of directors to fill Seats created through a settlement deal with billionaire activist Carl Icahn, who pursued a proxy battle against the company earlier this year. ...

Source: theairport.yuku.com --- 19 days ago
from Yahoo news: http://news.Yahoo.com/s/a...8dm7MnBS0wbrtxKiRjQus0NUE pity that the article shows a 318 or 319 with the caption "jumbo jet"! Imagine going trans Atlantic on a 318! But I imagine it's a pretty cushy flight with just 32 Seats on Board, and I bet you can't beat London City Airport for convenience. Now... ...

Source: searchenginewatch.com --- 32 days ago
Even after the vote re-count, a majority of shareholders voted Yahoo's Board in, and Carl Icahn settled for the right to propose two Board Seats and a spot for himself. At the end of the day, what's more important than rebuilding the Web's biggest brand? ... ...

Source: googlewatch.eweek.com --- 3 days ago
Google, Yahoo and MySpace formally launched the OpenSocial Foundation to garner support for the OpenSocial data portability effort. The group's goal is make sure that OpenSocial will remain open and free for developers or anyone else contributing to the specification . The Foundation has selected five of the seven Board members to preside over the group's governance. They include: Google's David Glazer, credited with leading the OpenSocial API efforts; hi5's Anil Dharni; Flixter's Joe Greenstein, MySpace's Allen Hurff; and Yahoo's Sam Pullara. In an unusual move, and one that underscores the open nature of the group, the Board will also include two community representatives, which will be selected by participants of the OpenSocial Foundation in the coming weeks. Want to vote for two OpenSocial community members? You need to sign up to join OpenSocial here and submit nominations for those Seats here . For those of you who missed the first go-around last October, Google programmers launched OpenSocial in the wake of the success of the Facebook Platform. Facebook Platform didn't allow apps created on it to work on other sites when it launched in May 2007. Sensing an opportunity, Google programmers created OpenSocial APIs that enable programmers to write applications for multiple social networks. The three APIs offer access to a user's profile and their friends, as well as the ability to let their friends know what activities have tak ...

Source: www.webpronews.com --- 26 days ago
The Microsoft-Icahn-Yahoo mess has mostly blown over, but as things stand, two Seats on Yahoo's Board are still empty.  A new report indicates that Edward Meyer and Frank J. Biondi, Jr. are the two men most likely to fill them on Friday. read more ...

Source: weblog.infoworld.com --- 24 days ago
Analyst firm says in-house app dev fraught with waste, botnet created by teenager is noted for reliance on social engineering to spread, Yahoo fills empty Seats on its Board, and more  LISTEN!... READ MORE ...