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Activist investor Carl Icahn put forward a rival slate of directors for Yahoo on Thursday, aiming to force it to reopen talks with Microsoft, two weeks after it spurned Microsoft's $47.5 billion takeover bid. Following is a timeline of key events in the takeover saga, stretching back more than...
BURLINGAME, CALIF. - Yahoo! published this letter from its chairman, Roy Bostock, on Thursday afternoon, in response to corporate raider Carl Icahn's news that he is nominating a slate of 10 directors for Yahoo! and intends to push the company into a deal with Microsoft. A fair-minded review of...
It's not just the Steve Ballmer and Jerry Yang show anymore. The cast of characters playing key roles in Microsoft's takeover attempt of Yahoo! has expanded. Google's Eric Schmidt and Time Warner's Jeff Bewkes have risen from cameo roles to co-stars as they hash out their own deals with Yahoo!...
Billionaire investor Carl C. Icahn has amassed a significant stake in Yahoo, one of the world's largest Web companies, and is planning to nominate a dissident slate of directors to the company, a source familiar with the matter said yesterday evening.
By the time this is all over, we may just see Jerry Yang run weeping into the embrace of Steve Ballmer like he was a long-lost brother. Dealing with Carl Icahn, the corporate world’s most annoying back-seat driver, can change a man, make him do things he wouldn’t ordinarily do....
Time once again for "Security Goes to the Movies," a leisurely look at the inevitable bleeding from the eyes that security folk experience when Hollywood takes liberties with technology, the laws of physics and other aspects of reality. Our shiny and metallic subject today is Iron Man. Our movie...
BURLINGAME, CALIF. - Steve Kirsch is one of a handful of people who can appreciate what Yahoo! Chief Executive Jerry Yang is facing right now. The entrepreneur and former chief executive of Infoseek, a search engine that has withered away since being acquired by Disney, thinks Yahoo! (nasdaq: )...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is looking to oust Yahoo's board of directors for what he says are "irresponsible" and "unconscionable" actions that led Microsoft to withdraw its $47 billion offer to buy the online giant. In a letter sent to Yahoo's chairman, Icahn writes...
Posted by Charles Cooper Post a Comment Had it not been for Jerry Yang and Tim Koogle, Mark Cuban would be just another middle-aged rich guy. Not George Soros-rich, but with enough shekels in the bank to spend a life of leisure. In 1999, he sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo for the princely sum of...
It's all corporate greed. What the h*** does Carl Icah know about running a search engine to make him try and push a company around with his wealth. I'd love to see him lose a few billion just to realize that his money can't do everything like run a succesful company. If I was Jerry Yang I'd take...
