Icahn to get Microsoft on speed dial?

Courtesy CNET Tech blog  Fri, 06/06/2008 - 5:17pm

Microsoft is practicing the "Golden Rule" when it comes to Yahoo and shareholder activist Carl Icahn.

The software giant, which initially encountered a frustrating round of "radio silence" from Yahoo after announcing its unsolicited buyout bid for the Internet search pioneer back in February, is not treating Icahn in a ...



 

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