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BusinessWeek
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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..
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BusinessWeek
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Lawsuits pitting the online classified and e-commerce giants should make prospective partners think hard before seating a rival on the board
Frenemies be afraid. Alliances with would-be competitors can be perilous. Nowhere in techdom is that clearer th..
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BusinessWeek
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The Google CEO's spot on Apple's board could go from awkward to untenable as the search giant's mobile push brushes up against the iPhone
Until now, having Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt sit on Apple's (AAPL) board of directors has made a lot of s..
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SF Gate
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Yahoo Inc.'s board formally rejected Microsoft's $44.6 billion takeover today, saying that it "substantially undervalues" the Web portal, but at the same time, left the door open for a counter offer.
After evaluating the proposal, the board unanimously..
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MSNBC
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Unshaken by a two-year losing streak, Yahoo Inc. is poised to take its biggest gamble yet by rejecting Microsoft Corp.’s unsolicited bid to buy the slumping Internet icon for $44.6 billion.
Yahoo’s board decided to spurn the takeover bid, originall..
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Canada.com
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An Immigration and Refugee Appeal Board judge has been accused of propositiong a refugee claimant in exchange for a favourable response to the woman's application.
CTV News obtained video of the judge suggesting to a South Korean woman that he would ap..
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machinist.salon.com
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Star Simpson, a 19-year-old MIT student, was arrested at gunpoint Friday morning at Boston's Logan Airport when officers suspected that a circuit board and battery she had pinned to her sweatshirt was a bomb. Indeed, every news outlet is now referring to..
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www.palmbeachpost.com
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Eighty books in high school library stacks are corrupting students with tales of abortion, homosexuality and atheism. That's according to a West Palm Beach mother who has appealed to the school board to remove the books from the shelves of Dreyfoos and Ro..
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BBC News
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The World Bank's executive board has confirmed that Robert Zoellick will become the organisation's new boss.
Mr Zoellick, who was nominated by US President George W Bush, will replace Paul Wolfowitz, who leaves on 30 June.
Mr Wolfowitz is stepping d..
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FOX News
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A Philippine passenger ferry with 237 people on board caught fire south of Manila Sunday, killing at least two people, coast guard officials said.
Passengers have been rescued by passing vessels, but authorities are not yet certain if all have been sav..
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CNN
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The World Bank executive board issued this statement Thursday:
Over the last three days we have considered carefully the report of the ad hoc group, the associated documents, and the submissions and presentations of Mr. Wolfowitz. Our deliberations wer..
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CNN
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Embattled World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz agreed to resign Thursday after weeks of controversy over his handling of a pay package for his girlfriend, a bank employee, the institution's board of directors announced Thursday.
In a statement announcin..
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Washington Post
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The Bush administration softened its support for World Bank President Paul D. Wolfowitz yesterday, signaling a willingness to replace him if the bank's executive board resolves an ethics controversy without firing him.
"All options are on the table," s..
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FOX News
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The White House defended embattled World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz on Tuesday, saying findings that he broke bank rules in arranging a hefty pay package for his girlfriend did not amount to "a firing offense."
Wolfowitz, who maintain that he acted..
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BBC News
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A panel of executives at the World Bank says its President Paul Wolfowitz broke bank rules in awarding a substantial pay rise to his girlfriend.
The directors said the full board of the World Bank should consider whether Mr Wolfowitz was still able to..
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Yahoo News
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Rupert Murdoch plans to offer Dow Jones & Co.'s controlling Bancroft family a seat on the board of his News Corp. if News Corp's planned purchase of the publisher of The Wall Street Journal goes through, the newspaper said Monday on its Web site.
Murdo..
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blogs.business2.com
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If Steve Jobs' presence on Disney's (DIS) board helped persuade Robert Iger to risk front loading Disney content on the iTunes Music Store, the gamble seems to have paid off in spades.
In its quarterly earnings report and call, the company told analyst..
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Washington Post
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A World Bank committee investigating president Paul D. Wolfowitz has nearly completed a report that it plans to give the institution's governing board, concluding that he breached ethics rules when he engineered a pay raise for his girlfriend, three senio..
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Al Jazeera
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Architect of Iraq war
Wolfowitz, whose appointment to the World Bank presidency in mid-2005 was controversial because of his role as an architect of the Iraq war while at the Pentagon, has refused to step down.
The US government has urged leadin..
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CNN
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The World Bank's board on Friday ordered an ad hoc group to discuss the fate of President Paul Wolfowitz, whose leadership has been thrown into turmoil by revelations that he helped his girlfriend get a high-paying job.
The 24-member board, in a statem..
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