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Icahn still interested in Temple-Inland.(PUSHES NEW BOARD MEMBERS)
Corporate tycoon Carl Icahn is proposing four new board members for Austin, Texas-based Temple-haland TI. They are: * John Bolton, interim U.S. representative to the United Nations; * Keith Meister, chairman and former ceo of the board...
Tags: board, Carl Icahn, Temple, Texas Instruments Inc.
Research articles 2007-02-24
Yahoo! Responds to Carl Icahn's Intention to Nominate Candidates for Election to Yahoo!'s Board of Directors
SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today sent the following letter in response to Carl Icahn's announcement regarding his intention to nominate a slate of ten directors to Yahoo!'s board of directors at the 2008 annual meeting of stockholders.
Tags: board, board of directors, Carl Icahn, Yahoo! Inc.
Research articles 2008-05-15
Monday madness at Motorola; Shareholders vote on Zander vs. Icahn.
Byline: PHIL CARSON You've undoubtedly followed with interest-if not a bit of morbid curiosity-the fortunes of Motorola Inc., which has slipped in less than a year from chest-thumping world-beater to chastened challenger. Add a whiff...
Tags: board, Carl Icahn, company, Ed Zander, Motorola Inc., shareholder
Research articles 2007-05-07
Week in Review.(Briefs)
Kmart HQ redevelopment plans to be outlined today Plans for the redevelopment of the 45-acre former Kmart Corp. headquarters at Big Beaver and Coolidge in Troy are to be announced today. The project's developer, Reston, Va.-based Richardson Dev Kmart HQ...
Tags: Avis Rent A Car System Inc., board, Carl Icahn, Lear Corp., Richardson, shareholder
Research articles 2007-04-30
Icahn is in at Blue: Antioco out--and back in.(Carl Icahn, John Antioco )
DALLAS -- Shareholders swept Carl Icahn and his slate of dissident directors onto Blockbuster's board last week, dealing a sharp rebuke to long-time chairman-CEO John Antioco and raising questions about the future direction of the company. Al DALLAS...
Tags: Blockbuster Inc., board, Carl Icahn, Icahn, shareholder
Research articles 2005-05-16
Blockbuster signals resistance to pressure: special dividend appears unlikely.(retail)
Blockbuster officials did their best to exude an air of calm blast week, even as feared corporate raider Carl Icahn kept up pressure oil. the company. In a memo to employees disclosed in a regulatory filing, chairman-CEO John Antioco said Blo...
Tags: Blockbuster Inc., board, Carl Icahn, company, dividend
Research articles 2005-04-18
Icahn Quits Yahoo Board
Carl Icahn is resigning from the Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) board of directors, saying that the company does not need an “activist investor” on its board, MarketWatch reports. The news comes two months after Icahn cut his stake in the company in what he called a move to “balance his...
Tags: Board, Yahoo! Inc., Carl Icahn, Icahn, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Joseph Tartakoff
External links 2009-10-23
Jerry Yang Wages Email Defense Against Icahn
Yahoo filed its internal communications about Carl Icahn’s proxy war plans with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The takeaway: Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang has been writing a lot of emails. To senior vice presidents at Yahoo, Yang delivered a few talking points following Icahn’s first volley and...
Tags: Jerry Yang, Annual Meeting, Board, Carl Icahn, E-mail, Stockholder, Salary, Director, Company, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
Blog posts 2008-05-16
More Dueling Letters In Icahn-Yahoo Tiff
See Carl Icahn blast Jerry Yang over a compensation plan to fend off a Microsoft bid. See Jerry 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 this dueling letter thing? ...
Tags: Jerry Yang, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
Blog posts 2008-06-05
Icahn Is Still Steamed at Yahoo
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, Icahn, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Larry Dignan
Blog posts 2008-06-09
Yahoo's Beginning of the End
Yahoo has been between a rock and a hard place - not making the right management decisions, losing market share, seeing high-level people stream out faster than the latest hit YouTube video, and pressure stepping up from investors. Now it's all coming together in a way that probably spells the...
Tags: Jerry Yang, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Carl Icahn, Glove, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Erik Sherman
Blog posts 2008-07-07
Icahn Launches the United Shareholders of America
Carl Icahn wants you be part of the U.S.A. No, not that U.S.A. but the United Shareholders of America, the scourge of C-Suite incompetence, hubris and greed everywhere. "We need an agressive plan . . . that is why I am launching the...
Tags: Shareholder, America, Board, Carl Icahn, Icahn, Pickens, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Peter Galuszka
Blog posts 2008-10-13
Is Icahn Planning Another Go At Yahoo?
The Yahoo soap opera never seems to end. Now that co-founder Jerry Yang say he'll be leaving after the board finds his replacement, Carl Icahn, a major thorn in Yahoo's saddle, is buying up shares again. The billionaire takeover artist has taken a 7...
Tags: Board, Yahoo! Inc., Carl Icahn, Corporate Governance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Peter Galuszka
Blog posts 2008-11-28
Inside Amylin's Anti-Icahn Suicide Pact
Amylin has adopted a financial suicide pact which, in the company's own words, may bankrupt the company if dissident investors Carl Icahn and Eastbourne Capital get a majority of directors elected at the May 27 shareholder meeting. The pact is described in a lawsuit brought by a...
Tags: Board, Director, Carl Icahn, Amylin, Amylin Stock, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Jim Edwards
Blog posts 2009-04-01
Amylin Founder Resigns, Suggests Chairman Follow; Icahn and Eastbourne Likely Delighted
The Amylin board of directors is crumbling in its resistance to insurgent investors Carl Icahn and Eastbourne Capital. Amylin founder Howard Greene resigned as director and wrote a letter suggesting that chairman Joseph Cook should also step down. Greene said he won’t vote for Cook because: A majority of...
Tags: Board, Carl Icahn, Amylin Board Of Director, Eastbourne Capital, Greene Resignation, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Jim Edwards
Blog posts 2009-04-10
The War for Amylin: Lilly Not Interested; Icahn Calls the Company a "Dictatorship"
Eli Lilly CEO John Lechleiter complicated the battle for Amylin today by telling Reuters he was not interested in buying the company. It was widely suspected that investor Carl Icahn, who is in a three-way war for control of Amylin's board of directors, wants to dress up...
Tags: Board, Carl Icahn, Amylin, Company, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Jim Edwards
Blog posts 2009-04-28
Yahoo: Where's Icahn as Stock Dips Below $10?
Sam Diaz submits: Yahoo’s YHOO stock is struggling to stay above $10, the ad deal with Google GOOG is in the history books and Microsoft MSFT has been quick to say “Not interested.” And CEO Jerry Yang has turned into the Internet whipping boy over it. But...
Tags: Jerry Yang, Stock, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Carl Icahn, Seeking Alpha, Sam Diaz, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Internet
External links 2008-11-13

Additional Resources

Carl Icahn offers to underwrite $US6 bln loan to CIT
By Joseph A. Giannone and Jessica Hall of Reuters NEW YORK/PHILADELPHIA - Carl Icahn, the famed corporate raider who says he is the largest holder of CIT Group Inc bonds, said the troubled lender is paying too much for an ill-conceived plan to win over a select few creditors. Icahn...
Tags: Carl Icahn, CIT Group
News items 2009-10-19
Carl Icahn Resigns From Yahoo Board
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters UK) - Activist investor Carl Icahn resigned from the board of Yahoo YHOO on Friday, a little more than a year after winning a seat in the wake of its protracted takeover talks with Microsoft MSFT. Icahn said in a letter to the board that he did...
Tags: Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Carl Icahn
News items 2009-10-23
Icahn raises profile in 2 firms.(Carl Icahn invested in ImClone Systems Inc. and Time Warner Inc.)
Byline: staff reports and bloomberg news reports Billionaire financier Carl Icahn above raised his stake in ImClone Systems Inc. to 12.3% and said he has not decided whether to join its board of directors. The biotech firm asked Mr. Icahn to beco Byline: staff...
Tags: Carl Icahn, Icahn, ImClone Systems Inc., Time Warner Inc., TV
Research articles 2006-08-21
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