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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.

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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

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.

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!