Yahoo announces Icahn’s board members

Courtesy 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. Frank Biondi [...]


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