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BusinessWeek Online - Tech Beat (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
... plan for what to do with Yahoo if Microsoft doesn't return. What's more, if a majority of new directors is elected, that may trigger Yahoo's poison pill or at least its potentially expensive employee retention program. Now, activist shareholder Eric Jackson , who got attention last year when he called for former Yahoo CEO Terry Semel's ouster, is offering a third way: Vote for four...
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Cnet (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Investor activist Carl Icahn is seeking control of the Yahoo board and will run a slate of nine dissident directors, according to his definitive proxy filed Monday with the . Over the weekend, a final attempt to strike a deal failed, when . That deal called for Microsoft to acquire Yahoo's search business, while turning over control of Yahoo's board to Icahn's slate of dissident...
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Catholic Action UK (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Briefing and comment: Independent Catholic News carries the extraordinary sermon Bishop Hollis of Portsmouth gave at the funeral of the film director Anthony Mighella, who made 'The English Patient' and other films. The association with this practically pornographic film, which also glorifies adultery, treason and euthanasia, might have given Hollis pause for thought, but perhaps the fact that...
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Cnet (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
Influential institutional investor advisory service RiskMetrics Group abstained Tuesday from issuing a recommendation on Yahoo director Gary Wilson, in his "other" proxy fight. Wilson, who is facing a proxy fight against investor activist Carl Icahn in his role as a Yahoo director, is also running as one of five members ...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
PermalinkTo save a permanent link to this news, right-click the date and time (Ctl-click on a Mac) and choose the command to copy the link, link location or shortcut.RiskMetrics and Glass Lewis Endorse All Four Biogen Idec Director Nominees Two Leading Voting Advisories Recommend Company Stockholders Vote FOR Company Nominees on the WHITE Proxy Card CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--()--Biogen Idec Inc. (NASDAQ:...
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Digital Daily - All Things Digital (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Yahoo’s latest broadside against the “Microsoft-Icahn agenda” has struck a chord with a key investor: Legg Mason Capital Management. The firm on Friday threw its support behind Yahoo, saying it will vote its 4.4 percent stake in Yahoo (60.7 million shares) against the slate of dissident directors presented by investor-agitator Carl Icahn.
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Webmaster World (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
"Investor activist Carl Icahn is seeking control of the Yahoo board and will run a slate of nine dissident directors, according to his definitive proxy, filed Monday with the Securities and Exchange Commission."
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Cnet (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Investor activist Carl Icahn is seeking control of the Yahoo board and will run a slate of nine dissident directors, according to his , filed Monday with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Carl Icahn's new magic number is nine.Over the weekend, a final attempt to strike a deal failed, when . That deal called for Microsoft to acquire Yahoo's search business, while turning over control...
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Cnet (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
That may be problematic for investor activist Carl Icahn, who is hoping to use Microsoft's sweetened bid as a means to entice Yahoo investors to vote for his slate of dissident directors, as he seeks to .
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Cnet (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
That may be problematic for investor activist Carl Icahn, who is hoping to use Microsoft's sweetened bid as a means to entice Yahoo investors to vote for his slate of dissident directors, as he seeks to .
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Cnet (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Yahoo's CEO and founder Jerry Yang warns employees the battle with investor activist Carl Icahn is going to heat up even more, now that Icahn has officially announced he is running nine dissident directors to unseat the company's entire board.
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Cnet (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Investor activist Carl Icahn needed a sign, a tangible sign, that Microsoft was still interested in buying Yahoo, or at a minimum, its search business, if he were to increase his chances of winning his proxy fight to unseat the company's entire board of directors. And on Monday, in ...
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Cnet (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
... proxy fight to oust Yahoo's current board and negotiate a possible deal with Icahn's slate of dissident directors, should they be elected at Yahoo's August 1 annual shareholders meeting. Wall Street analysts are more bullish on the notion that Icahn may prevail with his proxy fight, now that Microsoft has come out with a statement of support for his efforts and interest in negotiating...
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Cnet (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
... be elected. Despite this significant turn of events, Icahn has yet to pull the trigger and of dissident directors against Yahoo's nine-member board to take control of the company, or only put forth a partial slate to go for less than a majority of the seats on the board. Until Icahn files his definitive proxy, he isn't able to distribute proxy cards asking Yahoo investors to vote...
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Digital Daily - All Things Digital (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
Look out Jerry Yang, Carl Icahn now has one fewer distraction as he prepares to propose his slate of dissident board nominees at Yahoo’s Aug. 1 shareholder meeting. At its own shareholder meeting Thursday, Biogen investors voted to support management’s preferred board candidates and to reject a slate of directors proposed by Icahn.
