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WSF Headline Roundup - 8/6/08 - Citigroup in auction-rate talks; FRE loss; US $ at 7 weekhigh;...

wallstfolly.typepad.com     Aug 6, 2008          

Citi Talks With Regulators May Bring Billions in Buybacks Freddie Swings to Loss Dollar Trades Near 7-Week High as Oil Falls to Lowest Since May Commercial Rental Rates Plummet in Manhattan New Yahoo election tally reveals big...                    

Who Needs Diebold

crossingwallstreet.com     Aug 6, 2008          

Wonderful: Yahoo has updated the results of recent voting by shareholders, revealing that support for the Internet firm's board is far weaker than it appeared. Some 200 million votes were mistakenly cast in favor of the...                    

Yahoo!’s hanging chads

scholarsandrogues.com     Aug 6, 2008          

Yahoo! (YHOO) is a famous listed company. At the height – back in 2000 - of the Dot Com bubble, their shares were worth almost $120 each. Heady days. Heady days. Anyhoo, that was then. The company is a little less sanguine...                    

Revised Yahoo vote reveals more disdain for board

washingtonpost.com     Aug 6, 2008   316 related          

SAN FRANCISCO -- Yahoo Inc. has revised the results of a closely watched shareholder vote on its much-maligned board after discovering an error by a tabulation firm grossly exaggerated the number of ballots backing the directors.                    

Yahoo Shareholder Vote Number-Crunching-Whither Cap Re's No Vote? (at AllThingsD)

yahoo.com     Aug 4, 2008   18 related          

There is a mini-tempest brewing over how shares were tallied in the Yahoo annual meeting last Friday, specifically around whether a group of votes withheld by one of Yahoo's major shareholder were either not counted, counted...                    

Big Yahoo shareholder demands review of board vote

ibtimes.com     Aug 5, 2008   27 related          

A major Yahoo Inc. shareholder has asked for a review of how its votes were cast in last week's re-election of the Internet company's board, raising questions about whether the opposition to the directors may have been...                    

Yahoo Shareholder Vote Number-Crunching– Whither Cap Re’s No Vote? [BoomTown]

allthingsd.com     Aug 4, 2008   11 related          

There is a mini-tempest brewing over how shares were tallied in the Yahoo annual meeting last Friday, specifically around whether a group of votes withheld by one of Yahoo's major shareholders was not counted, counted...                    

eWeek: Why Microsoft Will Try Again for Yahoo in 2009

breakoutperformance.blogspot.com     Aug 4, 2008   1 related          

By Chris Preimesberger2008-08-04 Insider Eric Jackson believes that it's only "the second inning" in the revival of Yahoo. He expects Microsoft to return with yet another merger proposition for Yahoo next year because Microsoft...                    

No Fire in the Belly of Yahoo Stockholders

sys-con.com     Aug 5, 2008   6 related          

Yahoo Stockholder Reacted with A Shrug to the Board that Cost Them Billions By Running Off Microsoft Digg This! Deprived of a proxy fight Yahoo stockholders basically reacted with a shrug Friday to the board that cost them...                    

Major Yahoo Shareholder Concerned Over Voting Irregularities

forbes.com     Aug 5, 2008   1 related          

Joseph Weisenthal 08.04.08, 7:27 PM ET A very bizarre twist in the ongoing Yahoo saga, sure to to set off the tinfoil hat crowd. Major shareholder Capital Research Global is concerned about possible voting irregularities...