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		<title><![CDATA[Icahn Outbids Penn For Fontainebleau Las Vegas]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Deena BeasleyLOS ANGELES (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=Reuters">Reuters</a>) - Financier Carl Icahn has offered $156.5 million to acquire the partially built Fontainebleau Las Vegas resort, which has been stalled in bankruptcy court since June, according to the resort's chief operating officer.At a bankruptcy court hearing today in Miami, Icahn bid $105 million plus...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:15:14 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Icahn Raises Purchase Price For CIT Notes to $650]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=Reuters">Reuters</a>) - Investor Carl Icahn on Friday raised his offer for the senior notes of bankrupt CIT Group CITGQ to $650 per $1,000 of principal notes tendered.The tender offer is open until 11:59 PM, EST, December 2, Icahn said in a press release.A U.S. bankruptcy judge has set...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:15:32 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Weekend Round-Up]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Mail on Sunday    Business failure rate rise set to continue    The number of failed businesses has risen on last yearÃ¢â‚¬â„¢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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:39:20 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Bartz Ego: the Start of the End?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:00:13 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Icahn Quits Yahoo Board]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Carl Icahn is resigning from the Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) board of directors, saying that the company does not need an &#8220;activist investor&#8221; 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 &#8220;balance his...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:46:27 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Icahn Cuts Stake In Yahoo; Reiterates He Believes in 'Wisdom' of Partnership With Microsoft]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Entities associated with investor Carl Icahn have sold 12.7 million shares of Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) stock&#8212;or about 16 percent of their total holdings in the company&#8212;in what they are calling a move to &#8220;balance&#8221; their portfolios. In a filing with the SEC, Icahn&#8217;s affiliates say that the sale of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:38:17 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[In War for Amylin, Insurgents Gain Ground in Final Days Before Vote]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 15:45:06 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The War for Amylin: Lilly Not Interested; Icahn Calls the Company a "Dictatorship"]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Travel Roundup: Starwood Sues Hilton, Icahn Pushes MGM Mirage, Florida Wants Staycations and More]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Starwood Hotels & Resorts sues Hilton for industrial espionage -- Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. is suing Hilton Hotels Corp.Ã‚Â and two of its executives, saying its competitor stole company secrets. StarwoodÃ‚Â alleges that the two of its former employees, now at Hilton Hotels, stole more than 100,000 electronic files before...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Amylin Founder Resigns, Suggests Chairman Follow; Icahn and Eastbourne Likely Delighted]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 wonÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t vote for Cook because:  A majority of...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Inside Amylin's Anti-Icahn Suicide Pact]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:54:48 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Icahn bids for Lions Gate influence]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 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&#8217;s board. Icahn is now Lions Gate&#8217;s third largest shareholder after almost doubling his stake over the last six months.  Icahn&#8217;s friend and former investment chief...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Travel Roundup: Las Vegas Tourism Down, Icahn May Buy Tropicana, Hilton's Dillon Dies and More]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Las Vegas 2008 tourism down -- The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority released its 2008 tourism report which says that visitor volume fell 4.4 percent to 37.5 million, occupancy rates fell to 86 percent and the average daily room rate dropped almost 10 percent to $119.19 a night. The...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Icahn: No MSFT-YHOO Search Deal?For Now]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:08:09 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Is Icahn Planning Another Go At Yahoo?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:08:40 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Icahn raises Yahoo! stake]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:02:24 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Will Carl Icahn Come to Amylin's Rescue?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F106488-will-carl-icahn-come-to-amylin-s-rescue%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Mike Huckman submits:  Wall Street has essentially thrown in the towel lately on Amylin Pharmaceuticals AMLN. The shares have plummeted from nearly $30 just three months ago to around $7 yesterday.  But billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn apparently sees the stock as being on sale. At the end...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:52:52 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Yahoo: Where's Icahn as Stock Dips Below $10?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sam Diaz submits:   Yahoo&#8217;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 &#8220;Not interested.&#8221; And CEO Jerry Yang has turned into the Internet whipping boy over it.  But...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:57:28 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Secret Takeover of Lionsgate Films]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Arons submits:Carl Icahn Triples Stake   When corporate raider Carl Icahn recently tripled his stake in Lionsgate Films LGF, evidenced by a 13D filing, news spread quickly and many in the blog, entertainment and journalistic community began speculating at his motives (see here, here, here and here): Was...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 02:09:38 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Yahoo: Set for an Up $7, Down $2 Trade]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mike Havrilla submits: As the Google GOOG ad deal is likely to be scrapped, I am looking for the eventual sale of Yahoo YHOO to Microsoft MSFT at around $19-$22 per share, compared to a previous offer in the low $30s. Call option activity is heating up for November in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 01:45:48 -0700</pubDate>
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