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SAN FRANCISCO -- Expect a fierce battle for shareholder votes now that Carl Icahn is attempting to wrestle for control of Yahoo!YHOO. The billionaire investor has put forth a slate of 10 candidates to unseat Yahoo!'s own board of directors come July 3 at the company's annual shareholder meeting....
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Yahoo! Chairman Fires Salvo in Proxy Fight
Posted on: Friday, 16 May 2008, 09:00 CDT Yahoo! Inc. Chairman Roy Bostock denied the company's board acted irrationally when it rejected a purchase offer from U.S. software giant Microsoft Corp. Activist investor Carl Ichan, who has formally initiated a proxy fight to replace all 10 of Yahoo!'s...
BRIEF: An Exchange of Letters
Posted on: Friday, 16 May 2008, 09:00 CDT By San Jose Mercury News, Calif. May 16--A TENSE EXCHANGE Excerpts of letters between investor Carl Icahn and Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock From Icahn's letter: During the past week, a number of shareholders have asked me to lead a proxy fight to attempt to...
Yahoo! chairman fires salvo in proxy fight
SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 16 (UPI) -- Yahoo! Inc. Chairman Roy Bostock denied the company's board acted irrationally when it rejected a purchase offer from U.S. software giant Microsoft Corp. Activist investor Carl Ichan, who has formally initiated a proxy fight to replace all 10 of Yahoo!'s board...
Yahoo! chairman fires salvo in proxy fight
SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 16 (UPI) -- Yahoo! Inc. Chairman Roy Bostock denied the company's board acted irrationally when it rejected a purchase offer from U.S. software giant Microsoft Corp. Activist investor Carl Ichan, who has formally initiated a proxy fight to replace all 10 of Yahoo!'s board...
Ten Questions Yahoo! Shareholders Want Answered (at Forbes.com)
BURLINGAME, CALIF. - Corporate raider extraordinaire Carl Icahn launched his strategy to push Yahoo! back into Microsoft's arms. In a letter delivered Thursday to Yahoo! (nasdaq: , Icahn presented an alternative slate of board members to be voted on at the company's annual meeting on July 3. This...
Icahn to Yahoo!: It's On, Baby (at Motley Fool)
By Rich Smith (TMFDitty) May 16, 2008 Welcome once more to our continuing saga: As the Yahoo! Board Turns: Breakfast Edition. When last we left our hero, Carl Icahn was threatening to field a full slate of 10 director-nominees to oust the current board members at Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) and then...
Bored of Directors at Yahoo!
by Rick Aristotle Munarriz - May 16, 2008 - 0 comments If you're sitting on the Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) board of directors, don't be alarmed at the nature documentary film crews moving in for a close-up. They're working on an endangered species special. Smile. Don't take it personally. Carl Icahn...
Yahoo! strikes back at Icahn
Published Friday 16th May 2008 10:35 GMT Roy Bostock, chairman of Yahoo!, has wasted no time in responding to Carl Icahn's attempt to seize control of the company's board. In an open letter Bostock disputes Icahn's claim that Yahoo!'s board has ignored its duties to maximise shareholder value. He...
Yahoo! rejects Icahn's accusations
Yahoo! has rejected billionaire investor Carl C. Icahn's accusations that the Internet company's board of directors had acted irrationally in what he called the "botched" merger negotiations with the Microsoft. Icahn, who has amassed 59 million Yahoo! shares in recent days, in a letter to...
Ten Questions Yahoo! Shareholders Want Answered
BURLINGAME, CALIF. - Corporate raider extraordinaire Carl Icahn launched his strategy to push Yahoo! back into Microsoft's arms. In a letter delivered Thursday to Yahoo! (nasdaq: , Icahn presented an alternative slate of board members to be voted on at the company's annual meeting on July 3. This...
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