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BUSINESS / NEWS Wed Jun 4, 2008 @ 8:12am neoform

BusinessWeek -- Though beset by restive shareholders and pressure from Carl Icahn, Yang has his reasons to push for a better deal from Microsoft For more than a month, Yahoo (YHOO) co-founder and Chief Executive Jerry Yang has endured a withering attack by shareholder.. Read More

BUSINESS / NEWS Thu May 22, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

BusinessWeek -- Carl Icahn is leading a charge to replace the board at the Internet icon and push for a deal Every day it looks more likely that Yahoo! (YHOO) co-founders Jerry Yang and David Filo will lose control of the company they built into the Net's first iconic.. Read More

BUSINESS / NEWS Tue Apr 8, 2008 @ 8:17am neoform

BusinessWeek -- The troubled cell-phone maker agrees to back two board nominations from activist investor Carl Icahn When Motorola CEO Greg Brown agreed on Apr. 7 to back two of Carl Icahn's nominations to the company's board of directors, it was an admission of defea.. Read More

BUSINESS / NEWS Tue Apr 17, 2007 @ 3:52pm neoform

Washington Post -- Billionaire investor Carl C. Icahn disclosed yesterday that he had threatened to nominate a slate of opposing directors to MedImmune's board unless the company put itself up for sale, adding in an interview that the firm suffered from "very lackluster man.. Read More