Icahn: I’m not showing up to Yahoo’s shareholder meeting

Courtesy ZDNET - Between the Lines  Thu, 07/31/2008 - 10:12am

Talk about anticlimactic: Billionaire investor and proxy war ninja Carl Icahn isn’t going to bother showing up to Yahoo’s shareholder meeting on Friday.

In a post, Icahn–newly muzzled courtesy of a deal he cut with Yahoo–writes: I will not be attending.

The proxy fight is over and it will not do shareholders or Yahoo! any good to [...]



 

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