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- Carl Icahn, Comedian
- When you think Carl Icahn, the word-associations that spring to mind probably include "shareholder activist," "corporate raider," "operator," "shark" and perhaps "@%&!-stirrer." But "stand-up comic?" Probably not. In this YouTube video, however, the Scourge of the Stock Price shows his lighter side, getting the big yucks from...
- Blog posts 2008-06-25
- 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
- Keep an Eye on Lions's Gate - Icahn Is
- Seth Gilbert submits: Whale watching isn’t just a pastime in coastal towns. In financial circles, the biggest of the big, the heaviest of the heavy hitters, aka the “whales,” often draw a crowd too. Investors flock to see where the Buffets, the Soros and the Icahns of the world are...
- External links 2008-10-26
- Carl Icahn Increases Stake in Lions Gate: Will He Agitate for Change?
- Julia Boorstin submits: Lions Gate LGF stock has been trading around a 52-week low during the recent financial upheaval, presenting an attractive opportunity to Carl Icahn. The activist shareholder upped his stake in this company to 9.17 percent "in the belief that the shares were undervalued" according to a...
- External links 2008-10-22
- 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 Cuts Stake In Yahoo; Reiterates He Believes in 'Wisdom' of Partnership With Microsoft
- Entities associated with investor Carl Icahn have sold 12.7 million shares of Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) stock—or about 16 percent of their total holdings in the company—in what they are calling a move to “balance” their portfolios. In a filing with the SEC, Icahn’s affiliates say that the sale of...
- External links 2009-08-31
- What Really Gets Carl Icahn's Goat
- Want to know what really gets takeover king Carl Icahn's goat? Check out his latest blog post. The man who just spent a lot of time playing around with Yahoo Inc. but did get a few seats on the board sounds rather grouchy in his latest missive....
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- 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
- Weekend Round-Up
- The Mail on Sunday Business failure rate rise set to continue The number of failed businesses has risen on last year’s figures by 19.1 per cent. The failure rate is predicted to rise further still over the next three years due to a combination...
- Blog posts 2009-10-26
- Financial Sharks Are Circling Yahoo
- The Microhoo saga has attracted a who’s who list of investors to Yahoo in a big bet that Carl Icahn will force some sort of “shareholder value.” The latest investing star to enter the Microhoo sweepstakes is T. Boone Pickens, a legendary oil investor, has bought 10...
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- 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
- Jerry Yang, Yahoo's Pinata
- So what’s that water cooler conversation going to sound like at the Yahoo executive suite today? Probably something like this: Sue Decker: So Jerry how was your weekend? Jerry Yang: Not too bad. I didn’t have to talk to Steve Ballmer so how bad...
- Blog posts 2008-06-16
- In War for Amylin, Insurgents Gain Ground in Final Days Before Vote
- It's the home stretch of the Amylin proxy fight, in which Carl Icahn and Eastbourne Capital are trying to persuade shareholders to let them take control of Amylin. So who's winning? Until a few days ago, it looked like Amylin. But the insurgents appear to have won a few arguments...
- Blog posts 2009-05-21
- 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
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- What Really Gets Carl Icahn's Goat
- What Really Gets Carl Icahn's GoatRE: What Really Gets Carl Icahn's GoatHe is right ... even a small investor, like me, with zero money to waste, should have full access to investor lits without cost, except for Kinko's copying costs if they want to be gooses ... else, how much...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-29
- Icahn's book: split up TW: dissident's 343-page plan calls for four separated companies.(FINANCE)
- New York -- Carl Icahn and company's plan for restructuring Time Warner Inc. landed with a thud last week, in the form of a 343-page book advocating splitting the media giant into four separate publicly traded companies: America Online; Time Warner New York --...
- Research articles 2006-02-13
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