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- Icahn: No MSFT-YHOO Search Deal?For Now
- Activist investor and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) director Carl Icahn is throwing more cold water on speculation that the company is about to sell its search business to Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT). While he would like to see Microsoft take the search off Yahoo's hands, MarketWatch quotes Icahn as saying there's...
- External links 2008-12-03
- If at First You Don’t Succeed -- Reorganize
- In the face of overwhelming competitive odds, hostile investors, and key employees jumping ship faster than a microprocessor can count, Yahoo management is taking the tried and true way to face adversity: reorganization -- its fourth in 18 months. VentureBeat is finding the situation predictable because so...
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
- Icahn bids for Lions Gate influence
- Carl Icahn is increasing his stake in Lions Gate Entertainment to 14.5%, saying he may attempt to change the composition of the film studio’s board. Icahn is now Lions Gate’s third largest shareholder after almost doubling his stake over the last six months. Icahn’s friend and former investment chief...
- Articles 2009-02-26
- 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...
- External links 2008-11-13
- Icahn raises Yahoo! stake
- Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is building up his stake in Yahoo! by acquiring around USD67.2m worth of shares in the struggling internet giant. The investment, which increases Icahn's 5% holding by around 0.5%, comes after Yahoo!'s stock hit a one-year low last week amid investor concerns about the firm's...
- Articles 2008-11-27
- 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...
- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Bartz Ego: the Start of the End?
- Power is intoxicating. But when you take it and yourself too seriously, you set the stage for a big fall. The departure of Carl Icahn from Yahoo's board says as much about CEO Carol Bartz as it does about the investor. What it's saying isn't good. by Erik Sherman
- Blog posts 2009-10-24
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Blog posts 2009-04-10
- 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? ...
- 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...
- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Yahoo Responds to Icahn -- a Translation
- Not long after Carl Icahn, who has been pressuring Yahoo to do a deal with Microsoft, released his "Steve Ballmer and I are buddies" letter, Yahoo officially responded. Because many actions of the board and management have been mystifying to say the least, I've taken it on myself to translate...
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Time for a Microsoft-Yahoo-Icahn Time Out
- The more headlines I read about the spat with Yahoo on one side and Microsoft and Carl Icahn on the other, the more the parent in me wants to call a time out and send everyone to their respective corners. At the beginning of the month, I titled a post,...
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- 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...
- Blog posts 2009-04-28
Additional Resources
- Carl Icahn: Senior Bonds Look Outstanding - Barron's Interview
- Barron's interviews activist investor Carl Icahn. "They call me raider. They call me an activist," he says. "I don't know what those labels mean. All I know is that something should be done to improve corporate governance and management. If we don't, managements will remain unaccountable and our economy will...
- External links 2008-11-29
- What Is a Poison Pill?
- "Poison pills" work to thwart hostile takeovers, but they can also turn shareholders against you. How It Works Most poison-pill agreements are triggered when an outside company or individual — think Carl Icahn, for example — acquires ...
- Articles 2008-08-11
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