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Yahoo’s board to meet: Will Icahn’s gang make a difference?

ZDNET - Between the Lines  Mon, 09/22/2008 - 6:03am

Yahoo’s board will meet this week and billionaire investor Carl Icahn and his two directors–former Viacom CEO Frank Biondi and John Chapple, former CEO of Nextel Partners–will make their debut.



 

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.



 

Names surface in Microsoft's opposition slate for Yahoo

CNET Tech blog  Thu, 04/24/2008 - 12:42am

A few possible names are percolating to the surface of Microsoft's opposition slate as the software giant gears up for a potential proxy fight with Yahoo over its mega-billions buyout bid.