Report: Investor to lead fight against Yahoo board
wtop.com     May 15, 2008            

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Billionaire investor Carl Icahn reportedly plans to try overthrowing Yahoo's entire board to clear the way for Microsoft to renew its attempt to buy Yahoo. Icahn, who acquired about 50 million Yahoo shares this month will nominate an alternate slate of 10 directors for... [read full story]                

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username arnost_179 - May 16, 2008 10:24:14 AM
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