Icahn's Agenda: Get Shareholder Support, Revive MSFT-YHOO Talks (TechTicker)

yahoo.com     May 16, 2008            

Having launched a proxy fight, billionaire financier Carl Icahn's next move is to amass enough support for his effort, while simultaneously getting Yahoo and Microsoft back to the negotiating table. So far, he's having more success with the former vs. the latter. Yesterday, Icahn landed a big... [read full story]                

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Yahoo Board Bristles at Icahn's Threat

aol.com     May 16, 2008          

SAN FRANCISCO (May 15) - Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Jerry Yang spent months fending off Microsoft Corp.'s unsolicited takeover bid. Now he may only have a few weeks to persuade the software maker to revive its last offer of $47.5 billion, or risk being fired in a shareholder mutiny led by...                

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Icahn Says He Will Try To Oust Yahoo Chief

theledger.com     May 16, 2008          

SAN FRANCISCO | Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Jerry Yang spent months fending off Microsoft Corp.'s unsolicited takeover bid. Now he may only have a few weeks to persuade the software maker to revive its last offer of $47.5 billion, or risk being fired in a shareholder mutiny led by activist...                

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Yahoo disputes Icahn claims

app.com     May 16, 2008          

BLOOMBERG NEWS SERVICE • May 16, 2008 Yahoo! Inc. disputed Carl Icahn's claim that its directors "botched'' takeover talks with Microsoft Corp., signaling Chief Executive Officer Jerry Yang will fight the billionaire investor to keep control of the board. Icahn has a "significant...                

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Will Carl Icahn Force Yahoo to Negotiate with Microsoft?

web2journal.com     May 16, 2008          

Both Reuters and the Wall Street Journal are reporting that Carl Icahn - the greatest stockholder activist of our generation - is going to pull the pin to try to force Yahoo into negotiating a deal with Microsoft. It's unclear whether Yahoo's two biggest shareholders Capital Research & Management...                

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Yahoo! Fires Back at Icahn

thewhir.com     May 16, 2008          

May 16, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- According to reports released Friday, Roy Bostock, the chairman of Yahoo! (yahoo.com), has released an open letter responding to Carl Icahn's efforts to launch a proxy battle and "seek control of Yahoo!'s board of directors."                

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Yahoo Chairman Tells Icahn To Back Off

informationweek.com     May 16, 2008          

Yahoo's chairman Roy Bostock said corporate raider Carl Icahn misunderstands why Yahoo's merger talks with Microsoft collapsed. In a publicly released letter to Icahn, Roy Bostock also told the billionaire investor that he holds "a significant misunderstanding" over why Yahoo's merger talks with...                

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Icahn's 30% Of Yahoo

pheedo.com     May 16, 2008          

The epic proxy fight for Yahoo may soon be wrapping up. This morning the New York Post reports that Yahoo executives are scrambling to do a deal, although perhaps not the one that Carl Icahn and his friends are calling for. Apparently Yahoo is scrambling to ink something with Google to improve...                

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Dissecting Yahoo's response to Icahn [Yahoo Raid]

valleywag.com     May 16, 2008          

Roy Bostock, Yahoo's chairman of the board, has responded to corporate raider Carl Icahn. The one-word version: "Unfortunately." That word sums up so well the letter, Yahoo's hamhanded reply to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]                

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Yahoo chairman's response to Icahn leaves possibilities open

betanews.com     May 16, 2008          

By Scott M. Fulton, III , BetaNews Roy Bostock had every opportunity to simply just say no to Carl Icahn, whose open letter yesterday launched his hostile takeover strategy. But instead the Yahoo chairman wrote a candid, curiously unsolicited history of Microsoft's walkout. It was not an emphatic...                

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Jerry Yang To Workforce: Nevermind The Pitchforks And Torches. Keep Coding.

mashable.com     May 16, 2008          

The past 24 hours have been thoroughly intriguing. It hasn’t been very long since Yahoo and Microsoft ceased their deeply fouled rendezvous with a reversal from Redmond. And though Yahoo seems to have staved off a shareholder mutiny in post-prod, at least for the short term, it is now forced to...                

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