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BusinessWeek
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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..
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BusinessWeek
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Music to the ears of its shareholders, Air France-KLM steps away from negotiations to take over Alitalia. Its sights may now be on Spain's Iberia
After a 15-month effort to find a buyer for beleaguered Italian airline Alitalia (AZPIA), the proposed sal..
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BusinessWeek
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It's sitting on a huge pile of cash—and there are compelling reasons to return some to shareholders
Eighteen-and-a-half billion dollars is a lot of money.
It's more than the estimated 2007 gross domestic product of Nicaragua. It's bigger than the..
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Washington Post
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Internet pranksters pulled a fast one on Apple shareholders this week, proving that even the slightest hint of negative news about the highly anticipated iPhone can create a frenzy on Wall Street.
Just before 10 a.m. Wednesday, a spoof e-mail posing as..
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Globe and Mail
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Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., having failed in its $5.3-billion (U.S.) hostile takeover bid for the London Stock Exchange, is now seen scrambling to lay out a European strategy that will appease its shareholders and ensure that it won't be left behind as othe..
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BusinessWeek
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The GOP candidate's call to allow shareholders to vote on executive compensation is seen as an appeal to middle-class voters and the unions
John McCain threw a dash of populist pepper into an otherwise fairly traditional Republican stew of economic pol..
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CNN
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Shareholders in China's third-largest airline rejected a bid by Singapore Airlines to buy a minority stake Tuesday after a rival Chinese carrier offered more money in an unusual public takeover battle involving two state-owned companies. China Eastern Air..
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CNN
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Royal Bank of Scotland shareholders overwhelmingly approved the proposed 71 billion euro ($97.24 billion) takeover of ABN AMRO on Friday, the third and final leg of backing from investors in the RBS-led consortium. The deal was approved against a backdrop..
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MSN Money Central
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Executive compensation continues to soar, even for many CEOs whose job performance has been terrible. These five companies paid the most to CEOS while their stocks did little for shareholders.
I have a friend living in Harlem who works at a clothing sh..
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Alter Net
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At a recent Qwest annual meeting, shareholders expressed anger over management's salaries and perks. Their frustration -- and management's rationalizations -- tell us a great deal about profits, power and the state of corporate America today.
Qwest, th..
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Tech.co.uk
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It looks like Apple may open up the iPhone to third-party apps after all. The news came at an Apple shareholders' meeting held in Cupertino, California yesterday.
The decision is something Apple "is wrestling with," said company CEO Steve Jobs. He had..
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CNN
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Dutch shareholders group VEB said Thursday it will go to court to hold up the planned sale of ABN AMRO's U.S. retail bank LaSalle to Bank of America Corp. to give other banks a fair chance to make a bid for ABN AMRO.
VEB -- as well as hedge fund TCI, a..
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USA Today
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By Marcy Gordon, Associated PressWASHINGTON Echoes of the 2002 business scandals reverberate through a case before the Supreme Court that could make it tougher for shareholders to win lawsuits against public companies.
Justices are hearing arguments..
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Washington Post
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Shareholders of Caremark Rx yesterday voted to accept a $27 billion acquisition offer from CVS, a deal that would create a prescription drugs distribution giant.
The approval ended a drawn-out bidding process that pitted Express Scripts, a primary comp..
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