Yahoo Sue Decker on Icahn (CNET )
Yahoo president Sue Decker discussed her thoughts on working with investor activist Carl Icahn, post proxy fight merger settlement, in a CNBC interview.Source : CNET (subscribe)Explore : Technology
Yahoo, Icahn Settle; Microsoft Deal Seen Adrift (ChatzWorld - A World of Chat)
Yahoo Inc. will appoint activist investor Carl Icahn and two of his nominees to its board, defusing a proxy battle showdown and making an immediate...Source : ChatzWorld - A World of Chat (subscribe)
Yahoo, Icahn Settle; Microsoft Deal Seen Adrift (NeoWin)
Yahoo Inc. will appoint activist investor Carl Icahn and two of his nominees to its board, defusing a proxy battle showdown and making an immediate deal with Microsoft Corp. less likely. The settlement with Icahn, announced Monday, came just 11 days before Yahoo's Aug. 1 annual shareholders meeting. Icahn had originally sought to replace the entire board with his own nominees and oust Yahoo Chief Executive...Source : NeoWin (subscribe)Explore : Technology Blogs
Yahoo and Icahn settle; Microsoft deal seen adrift
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc will appoint activist investor Carl Icahn and two of his nominees to its board, defusing a proxy battle showdown and making an immediate deal with Microsoft Corp less likely.
Icahn Ends Feud With Yahoo
Yahoo's agreement to appoint Icahn to its board ends gives the activist investor a direct hand in any decision about selling to Microsoft. The question is whether Yahoo may come to regret its move.
Yahoo Will Add Icahn to Its Board
Yahoo reached agreement with activist shareholder Icahn, under which the activist shareholder will join an expanded board in return for withdrawing a slate of his own candidates.
Activist Carl Icahn wins Yahoo! seats in boardroom battle
Yahoo! today settled its acrimonious battle with billionaire activist investor
Carl Icahn, who will join the US internet search giant as a director.
Yahoo, Icahn Settle Feud
Yahoo reached agreement with activist shareholder Icahn, under which the activist shareholder will join an expanded board in return for withdrawing a slate of his own candidates.
Yahoo settles with Icahn to avert showdown (Seattle Times)
Yahoo Inc. is relinquishing three seats on its board of directors to activist investor Carl Icahn, ending a battle for control of the Internet...Source : Seattle Times (subscribe)Explore : Yahoo! Inc.
CORRECTED: Yahoo and Icahn settle, Microsoft deal seen adrift (Reuters)
Reuters - Yahoo Inc will appoint
activist investor Carl Icahn and two of his nominees to its
board, settling a proxy battle and making an immediate
transaction with Microsoft Corp less likely.
Yahoo settles with Icahn to avert August showdown (Los Angeles Times)
SAN FRANCISCO -- Yahoo Inc. is relinquishing three seats on its board of directors to activist investor Carl Icahn, ending a battle for control of the Internet company while still leaving the door open for a possible sale to Microsoft Corp. Source : Los Angeles Times (subscribe)Explore : Internet, Technology, Yahoo! Inc.
Icahn Backs Down From Yahoo Proxy Fight In Return For Three Yahoo Board Seats (TechCrunch)
Carl Icahn and Yahoo have come to a settlement over control of Yahoo?s board. In return for three board seats, Icahn has agreed to withdraw his alternative slate of nominees and back down from a full-fledged proxy war. Icahn will be given a seat on the board, existing board member Robert Kotick (CEO of [...]Source : TechCrunch (subscribe)Explore : Internet, Legg Mason, TechCrunch, Technology, Web 2
Icahn Backs Down From Yahoo Proxy Fight In Return For Three Yahoo Board Seats (TechCrunch)
Carl Icahn and Yahoo have come to a settlement over control of Yahoo?s board. In return for three board seats, Icahn has agreed to withdraw his alternative slate of nominees and back down from a full-fledged proxy war. Icahn will be given a seat on the board, existing board member Robert Kotick (CEO of [...]Source : TechCrunch (subscribe)Explore : Internet, Legg Mason, TechCrunch, Technology, Web 2
Yahoo settles with Icahn to avert August showdown (AP)
AP - Yahoo Inc. is relinquishing three seats on its board of directors to activist investor Carl Icahn, ending a battle for control of the Internet company while still leaving the door open for a possible sale to Microsoft Corp.
Icahn Settles For Three Seats on Yahoo?s Board (Mashable)
Yahoo! reached an agreement with Carl Icahn: eight members of Yahoo?s current board of directors will stand for re-election; the board will be expanded to 11 members, Icahn will take one, and the other two will be chosen based on his recommendation. Yahoo! co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang said this of the agreement: ?This agreement will not only allow Yahoo! to put the distraction of the proxy contest...Source : Mashable (subscribe)Explore : Jerry Yang, Mashable, Technology, Web 2, Yahoo!
Yahoo Adds Icahn to Board, Avoiding a Showdown
Yahoo averted a bruising proxy contest with the investor Carl Icahn by agreeing to appoint him and two others to its board.
Yahoo and Icahn settle, Microsoft deal seen adrift
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc will appoint activist investor Carl Icahn and two of his nominees to its board, settling a proxy battle and making an immediate transaction with Microsoft Corp less likely.
Yahoo and Icahn settle, Microsoft deal seen adrift (Reuters)
Reuters - Yahoo Inc will appoint
activist investor Carl Icahn and two of his nominees to its
board, settling a proxy battle and making an immediate
transaction with Microsoft Corp less likely.
Yahoo settles with Icahn to avert shareholder fight (AP)
AP - Yahoo Inc. is relinquishing three seats on its board of directors to activist investor Carl Icahn, ending a battle for control of the Internet company while still leaving the door open for a possible sale to Microsoft Corp.
Yahoo! settles with Icahn to avert control battle (AP)
AP - Yahoo Inc. said Monday it reached a settlement with activist investor Carl Icahn that will put him and two of his nominees on an expanded board of directors.
Yahoo settles with Icahn to avert shareholder fight to replace entire board (StarTribune.com)
SUNNYVALE, Calif. - Yahoo Inc. said Monday it reached a settlement with activist investor Carl Icahn that will put him and two of his nominees on an expanded board of directors.The agreement will avert a battle over control of the company that was expected at an Aug. 1 shareholders vote.Under the agreement, eight members of the current board will seek re-election. Icahn will be appointed to the board,...Source : StarTribune.com (subscribe)
Settlement Puts Icahn on Yahoo Board (New York Times)
Yahoo said it had reached a settlement with the investor Carl Icahn to avert a battle over control of the company. Source : New York Times (subscribe)Explore : Technology
Settlement Puts Icahn on Yahoo Board
Yahoo said it had reached a settlement with the investor Carl Icahn to avert a battle over control of the company.
Yahoo nominates Icahn to board, settles proxy fight
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc will appoint activist investor Carl Icahn and two members of his slate of directors to the company's board, settling a proxy battle ahead of its August 1 annual shareholders meeting.
Yahoo, Icahn Reach Deal
Yahoo reached agreement with activist shareholder Icahn, under which the activist shareholder will join an expanded board in return for withdrawing a slate of his own candidates.
Yahoo nominates Icahn to board, settles proxy fight (Reuters)
Reuters - Yahoo Inc will appoint
activist investor Carl Icahn and two members of his slate of
directors to the company's board, settling a proxy battle ahead
of its August 1 annual shareholders meeting.
Yahoo settles with Carl Icahn
(Reuters) - Yahoo Inc said on Monday it has reached a settlement with billionaire investor Carl Icahn over their pending proxy contest related to Yahoo's 2008 annual meeting of stockholders.
Yahoo settles with Carl Icahn (Reuters)
Reuters - Yahoo Inc said on Monday it has reached a
settlement with billionaire investor Carl Icahn over their
pending proxy contest related to Yahoo's 2008 annual meeting of
stockholders.
Yahoo settles with Icahn to avert control battle (AP)
AP - Yahoo has reached a settlement with activist investor Carl Icahn to avoid a battle for control of the company.
Icahn again takes aim at Yahoo board (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
SAN FRANCISCO -- Apparently abandoning hopes for a truce with Yahoo Inc., investor Carl Icahn sharpened his focus on replacing the Internet company's board Monday after his attempt to negotiate a deal with Microsoft Corp. was angrily rejected.Source : Seattle Post-Intelligencer (subscribe)Explore : Business
Outraged Icahn refocuses on ousting Yahoo board (Seattle Times)
Apparently abandoning hopes for a truce with Yahoo Inc., investor Carl Icahn sharpened his focus on replacing the Internet company's board Monday after his attempt to negotiate a deal with Microsoft Corp. was angrily rejected.Source : Seattle Times (subscribe)Explore : Internet, Seattle, Technology
Outraged Icahn refocuses on ousting Yahoo board (AP)
AP - Apparently abandoning hopes for a truce with Yahoo Inc., investor Carl Icahn sharpened his focus on replacing the Internet company's board Monday after his attempt to negotiate a deal with Microsoft Corp. was angrily rejected.
DealBook: Icahn and Yahoo Trade Barbs
Say what you want about Yahoo's tense dealings with Carl Icahn -- at least the two sides have no trouble saying how they really feel about each other. Monday brought a flurry of regulatory filings from both Mr. Icahn and Yahoo, much of which amounted to an acid-tinged explanation of why the other side in this [...].
Icahn to run slate of nine for Yahoo board (Cnet)
Following the nixed weekend bid in tandem with Microsoft, the billionaire investor launches a formal quest to replace Yahoo's board.Source : Cnet (subscribe)Explore : Internet, Media, Software and services, Technology, Telecommunication
Icahn and Microsoft Fail to Charm Yahoo, Again (MediaBistro.com)
It's back off-again. Over the week-end Yahoo rejected Carl Icahn and Microsoft 's "take it or leave it" proposal, which required Yahoo to sell its search business to Microsoft, throw out its board and management, and hand control of the rest of the company to Carl Icahn. Not surprisingly even the analysts and shareholders who had previously criticized Yahoo for letting takeover talks with Microsoft...Source : MediaBistro.com (subscribe)Explore : Technology
Icahn Says Yahoo Distorted Facts
Icahn responded to Yahoo's rejection of the activist investor's joint proposal with Microsoft, saying he has yet to see a company "distort, omit and twist" facts in the manner he feels Yahoo did.
As Yahoo Rejects Microsoft, Again, Who's Voting With Icahn? (Seeking Alpha)
Eric Savitz (Barron's) submits: Yahoo (YHOO) over the weekend announced that it had rejected a new complex takeover bid for the company from Microsoft (MSFT) and investor Carl Icahn. On Friday evening, Yahoo said, Microsoft and Icahn made a proposal in which Microsoft would have acquired Yahoo?s search business and Icahn would have gained control of the rest of the company. Yahoo said they were given...Source : Seeking Alpha (subscribe)Explore : China, Technology
Yahoo rejects joint Microsoft, Icahn proposal (NeoWin)
Yahoo said on Saturday it has rejected a joint proposal from Microsoft and activist investor Carl Icahn that would have involved Yahoo selling its search business to Microsoft. Yahoo said in a statement that it received the proposal on Friday evening and was given less than 24 hours to accept. The Internet company said the terms proposed by Microsoft and Icahn were inferior to Yahoo's existing search...Source : NeoWin (subscribe)Explore : Technology, Technology Blogs
Yahoo Rejects Microsoft/Icahn Offer (Digital Trends - Most Recent News)
In no uncertain terms, Yahoo has turned down a joint bid from Microsoft and billionaire investor Carl Icahn to take over the company. Under the terms, Microsoft would have acquired the search engine business and Icahn would have got the rest of Yahoo. Yahoo claims that it was given just 24 hours to consider the offer and there was no time for negotiation, the BBC reports. In a statement, Roy Bostock,...Source : Digital Trends - Most Recent News (subscribe)Explore : Search Engines, Technology
Yahoo rejects Microsoft's latest 'take it or leave it' proposal made with Carl Icahn (StarTribune.com)
As described by Yahoo in a statement released late Saturday, Microsoft packaged its latest offer with activist investor Carl Icahn, a billionaire who is seeking to overthrow Yahoo's board of directors in a shareholder meeting scheduled for Aug. 1.Source : StarTribune.com (subscribe)
Yahoo rejects joint Microsoft, Icahn proposal
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc said on Saturday it has rejected a joint proposal from Microsoft Corp and activist investor Carl Icahn that would have involved Yahoo selling its search business to Microsoft.
Yahoo rejects joint Microsoft, Icahn proposal (Reuters)
Reuters - Yahoo Inc said on
Saturday it has rejected a joint proposal from Microsoft Corp
and activist investor Carl Icahn that would have
involved Yahoo selling its search business to Microsoft.
DealBook: Yahoo Rejects Microsoft-Icahn Offer (New York Times)
Yahoo said on Saturday that it had rejected a renewed proposal by Microsoft – together with the activist investor Carl C. Icahn – to buy the beleaguered Internet company?s search business. Source : New York Times (subscribe)
DealBook: Yahoo Rejects Microsoft-Icahn Offer
Yahoo said on Saturday that it had rejected a renewed proposal by Microsoft – together with the activist investor Carl C. Icahn – to buy the beleaguered Internet company?s search business.
Yahoo Rejects Microsoft, Icahn Bid
Yahoo disclosed Saturday night that it had received and rejected a joint proposal from Microsoft and Carl Icahn for a restructuring that the Internet giant said would have included the acquisition of its search business by Microsoft.
Microsoft backs Icahn's bid to oust Yahoo board (Jamaica Gleaner :: Business)
Microsoft Corp threw its weight behind investor Carl Icahn's effort to dump Yahoo Inc's board, saying Monday that a successful shareholder rebellion would encourage the software maker to renew its bid to buy Yahoo's Internet search engine or possibly...Source : Jamaica Gleaner :: Business (subscribe)
Microsoft Backs Icahn's Bid To Oust Yahoo Board (Tampa Bay Online)
SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft Corp. threw its weight behind investor Carl Icahn's effort to dump Yahoo Inc.'s board, saying Monday that a successful shareholder rebellion would encourage the software maker to renew its bid to buy Yahoo's Internet search engine or possibly the entire company Source : Tampa Bay Online (subscribe)Explore : Business, Internet, Search Engines, Technology
Microsoft Is Icahn?s Ally in Pursuit of Yahoo
Microsoft said that it might be interested in negotiating a deal with Yahoo, including an outright acquisition.
Microsoft backs Icahn's bid to oust Yahoo board (AP)
AP - Microsoft Corp. threw its weight behind investor Carl Icahn's effort to dump Yahoo Inc.'s board, saying Monday that a successful shareholder rebellion would encourage the software maker to renew its bid to buy Yahoo's Internet search engine or possibly the entire company.
Icahn and Ballmer plot Yahoo overthrow (Cnet)
Just days ago, Bill Gates said it was unlikely Microsoft would make any kind of deal with Yahoo. Now Redmond is talking with Carl Icahn to replace Yahoo's board to pave the way for a deal.Source : Cnet (subscribe)Explore : Business, Information Technology, Software and services, Technology, Telecommunication