Icahn also fighting clock in Yahoo board challenge

Courtesy CNET Tech blog  Tue, 07/08/2008 - 6:00am

Investor activist Carl Icahn needed a sign, a tangible sign, that Microsoft was still interested in buying Yahoo, or at a minimum, its search business, if he were to increase his chances of winning his proxy fight to unseat the company's entire board of directors.

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