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eBay said that Marc Andreessen will join the online auctioneer’s board of directors. The move, which is effectively immediately, brings some additional brainpower to eBay, which is trying to fend off rivals such as Amazon and Google.

For instance, Amazon’s fixed price model has been attracting merchants to its network.

If the DOJ puts the kibosh on the proposed Google deal, is Carl Icahn ready to go to the mattresses again--this time as a board member?

Yahoo holds its first board meeting with former proxy fight adversaries Carl Icahn and two of his members--without any fireworks or DOJ fight-or-flight decisions.

Yahoo’s board reportedly set the stage for additional talks with Time Warner’s AOL unit for some kind of deal.

According to a relatively thin Financial Times report Yahoo’s board approved talks with Time Warner about the future of AOL.

Time Warner has been trying to unload AOL for what seems like an eternity.

Samsung is making a hostile bid for SanDisk for $26 in cash, or almost double SanDisk’s current stock price.

SanDisk promptly said no to Samsung’s overtures. And why not? Toshiba may be interested too.

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.

When additional proxies from Yahoo's largest institutional shareholders were counted, Jerry Yang was re-elected to the company's board with only 66% of the vote, not 85%.

Former AOL CEO Jonathan Miller was apparently named as one of three potential new board members at Yahoo, but his former boss has pooh-poohed the idea, according to Techcrunch.

Yahoo’s board meeting is still going but word is that Microsoft has issued a statement criticizing Yahoo’s interpretation of the negotiations.

“Yahoo is attempting to rewrite history yet again with statements that are not supported by the facts,” Microsoft says.

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