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 Icahn’s Big Yahoo Wager By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN About a month and a half ago, Carl Icahn and I went to dinner at Tse Yang, an upscale Chinese restaurant in Midtown Manhattan. ...  Why Yahoo! Can’t Go it Alone By Elizabeth MacDonald Getting the answer to this question now on the lips of Wall Street traders, and likely billionaire Carl Icahn who has sunk tens of ... |
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The oil investor piggybacks Carl Icahn's bold move. - 05/20/08 at 11:19AM jethrotull It's clear that Yahoo and its CEO and Co-Founder Jerry Yang have got to be a little more than miffed that billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban is on billionaire investor Carl Icahn's board as he begins a proxy fight to control the troubled Internet company. As BoomTown noted in a post yesterday, there is no love lost at Yahoo for Cuban (pictured here), who sold Broadcast.com for $5.7 bi - 05/20/08 at 11:07AM Amazing what a little shove from Carl Icahn can do. Microsoft admitted on Sunday that it's submitted a new proposal to Yahoo, though not an acquisition of the entire company. Without any additional details, it's difficult to know if this actually makes any sense for anyone involved, but it does show that this whole exercise is far from over. The rumor right now is that it involves Microsoft takin - 05/20/08 at 10:59AM NEW YORK, May 20 (Reuters) - Third Point LLC, a $5.7 billion hedge fund headed by activist Dan Loeb, has recently accumulated a stake of over 5 million shares in Yahoo Inc and is supporting investor Carl Icahn's proxy battle, a source familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. - 05/20/08 at 10:46AM Carl Icahn does not want to win the proxy contest he has started at Yahoo - not if winning means joining the board and running the company. - 05/20/08 at 10:19AM Third Point and T. Boone Pickens are snapping up millions of Yahoo shares and throwing their support behind Carl Icahn's proxy fight. - 05/20/08 at 10:03AM |
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Boone Pickens backs Icahn on Yahoo Another big investor is riding Carl Icahn’s coattails on Yahoo (YHOO). T. Boone Pickens bought 10 million shares of the Internet giant after Icahn last week announced his intention to replace the Yahoo board, in hopes of brokering a ... - Tue, May 20 Carl Icahn, the Superman of shareholders, gambles again Carl Icahn has no intention of running Yahoo himself. He just wants to bring Microsoft, which has withdrawn its $47.5 billion bid for Yahoo, back to the negotiating table. - Tue, May 20 T. Boone Pickens Picks Up 10 Million Yahoo Shares; Betting On Carl ... Boone Pickens has picked up 10 million shares of Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), on the basis that betting on Carl Icahn is a good one. Pickens made the announcement in an interview with CNBC's Becky Quick (via MarketWatch). ... - Tue, May 20 Harvard’s Lucian Bebchuk: A Boldfaced Name in the Yahoo/Icahn Spat This morning, the Law Blog enjoyed Andrew Ross Sorkin’s DealBook column in the NYT, which contained tale of a dinner that Sorkin shared recently with Carl Icahn. The two ate at a fancy Chinese restaurant in Manhattan, Icahn ordered a ... - Tue, May 20 Microsoft Yahoo “Talks” Get Interesting (just like we told you ... Last week we reported that it was likely that crazy-like-a-fox Carl Icahn was setting his sights on forcing Yahoo to accept a merger offer from Microsoft -- never mind that said offer had been taken off the table and *definitely* never ... - Tue, May 20 Ed Meyer, Yahoo director? Either I haven't been paying attention, or none of us have, because I just noticed that Ed Meyer is listed as one of Carl Icahn's prospective board members of Yahoo. Ed Meyer, as in the head of Grey for six gazillion years (OK, ... - Tue, May 20 |
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