Icahn loads Yahoo proxy slate with Mark Cuban, other biggies

Courtesy CNET Tech blog  Thu, 05/15/2008 - 9:52am

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is leaning on such high-profile tech names as Mark Cuban in his effort to unseat Yahoo's current board at its annual shareholders meeting and to pave the way for a Microsoft-Yahoo merger.

Icahn, in formally announcing on Thursday his 10-member proxy slate to run against ...


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