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Yahoo announces Icahn’s board members

ZDNET - Between the Lines  Thu, 08/14/2008 - 7:26pm

Yahoo appointed former Viacom CEO Frank J. Biondi, Jr. and John H. Chapple, former CEO of Nextel Partners, to its board of directors, filling the two new seats created when activist investor Carl Icahn agreed to drop his proxy fight for control of the board last month.

Icahn is also a new board member.



 

Yahoo shareholders still angry

CNN Money  Fri, 08/01/2008 - 4:39pm

Carl Icahn may have skipped Yahoo's sparsely attended annual meeting, but other shareholders were fuming about how the board handled the Microsoft deal.



 

Yahoo’s shareholders chance to talk

ZDNET - Between the Lines  Fri, 08/01/2008 - 12:34pm

In most cases, a shareholder’s meeting is usually a sleeper. But today, all eyes are on Yahoo’s meeting, underway now at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose.



 

Friday: Yahoo shareholder meeting live coverage

CNET Tech blog  Thu, 07/31/2008 - 4:48pm

CNET News will provide live coverage the Yahoo shareholder. Carl Icahn won't be there, but other disgruntled shareholders likely will voice opinions he'd agree with.



 

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

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!



 

EIC podcast: Microsoft’s analyst meeting; Icahn’s deal; Face...

ZDNET - Between the Lines  Fri, 07/25/2008 - 1:08pm

On this week’s EIC squared podcast, Dan is back and we talk about Microsoft’s analyst meeting, Kevin Johnson’s departure from the software giant, Carl Icahn’s deal with Yahoo and Facebook.



 

Yahoo’s second quarter: Microhoo, Icahn drama cost $22 million

ZDNET - Between the Lines  Tue, 07/22/2008 - 3:31pm

The Carl Icahn proxy battle with Yahoo appears to have been a slight distraction. Yahoo on Tuesday reported second quarter net income of $131 million, or 9 cents a share, on revenue of $1.35 billion excluding traffic acquisition costs.

Excluding items, Yahoo had earnings of $139 million, or 10 cents a share.



 

AOL’s ousted CEO being considered for Yahoo seat

ZDNET - Between the Lines  Mon, 07/21/2008 - 6:41pm

Can Jonathan Miller do for Yahoo what he tried to do for AOL? Is that a good thing or a bad thing?



 

Video: Beyond the Icahn-Yahoo honeymoon

ZDNET - Between the Lines  Mon, 07/21/2008 - 3:31pm

Sam offers his take on the agreement between billionaire investor Carl Icahn and Yahoo. He says the latest development only settles the proxy fight, and now comes the big challenge–getting Yahoo’s newly expanded board to work together.



 

Icahn Says He Can’t

ZDNET - Between the Lines  Mon, 07/21/2008 - 10:17am

Add Carl Icahn to the list of parties trying to figure out what to do with Yahoo! who can’t. If he had a solid idea of how to set Yahoo!