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Microsoft (MSFT) to Yahoo (YHOO) Shareholders: Fire Board and We Might Buy Company

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2008-07-07 13:41:00 by Henry Blodget in Silicon Alley Insider
...board, Microsoft might reward them by ending their pain and buying the whole company W]e have never been able to reach an agreement in a timely way on acceptable terms with the current management and Board of Directors at Yahoo!. We have concluded that we cannot reach an agreement with them. We confirm, however, that after the shareholder...
 
 
 
 
 
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Yang and the Board eager for Microsoft deal; Icahn still bad for Yahoo

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2008-07-18 07:33:52 by Sardar Mohkim Khan in Startup Meme
...Board is at getting the point cleared once and for all. As Yang said that the board is doing all it can to give the stockholders the most of what they can if a deal is to be tailored with Microsoft Dear Fellow Stockholder The recently-formed Carl Icahn-Microsoft alliance continues to make misleading statements about their plans for Yahoo!....
 
 
 
 
 
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Yahoo Meeting May Get A Bit More Interesting: Jon Miller Not Joining Board, After All?

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2008-08-01 11:15:00 by Peter Kafka in Silicon Alley Insider
...board meeting might be a tiny bit more interesting than we first thought : Former AOL CEO Jon Miller, who'd been expected to join the board as part of the Carl Icahn settlement, may not do so after all, the LAT reports. Unfortunately, the LAT doesn't offer up any more info than that After much speculation that he would join Yahoo's board, two...
 
 
 
 
 
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Yahoo Appoints Frank Biondi and John Chapple in the Board

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2008-08-15 07:11:54 by Sardar Mohkim Khan in Startup Meme
...Board of Directors. We had reported about the nominees and the scales being tipped in at Frank J. Biondi and John H. Chapple. There had been a lot of drama behind this as well; ever since Icahn had been spitting fire at the board and all the way to compromising with the board and then avoiding the shareholders meeting which was a pretty big...
 
 
 
 
 
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As Long As We Are Rethinking Yahoo's Board (YHOO)

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2008-05-17 20:11:00 by Fred Wilson in Silicon Alley Insider
...board must take some responsibility for where Yahoo! finds itself now. It probably is time for a little housecleaning. But Icahn's slate doesn't include many people with real internet business experience and only one or two with any idea of where the internet is headed. But the biggest problem with Icahn and his slate is that it's all a game...
 
 
 
 
 
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Userplane Re-Invents the Message Board

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2008-08-12 19:00:17 by Adam Ostrow in Mashable!
...boards were the de facto online communities. And while there are still thousands of popular boards scattered around the Web, there has been little innovation in terms of the software that powers them, minus a few upstarts we recently profiled This week, community software builder Userplane is throwing its hat in the ring with an innovative...
 
 
 
 
 
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Userplane Re-Invents the Message Board

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2008-08-12 19:00:17 by Adam Ostrow in Mashable!
...boards were the de facto online communities. And while there are still thousands of popular boards scattered around the Web, there has been little innovation in terms of the software that powers them, minus a few upstarts we recently profiled This week, community software builder Userplane is throwing its hat in the ring with an innovative...
 
 
 
 
 
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Icahn Backs Down From Yahoo Proxy Fight In Return For Three Yahoo Board Seats

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2008-07-21 15:47:57 by Erick Schonfeld in TechCrunch
...board. In return for three board seats, Icahn has agreed to withdraw his alternative slate of nominees and back down from a full-fledged proxy war. Icahn will be given a seat on the board, existing board member Robert Kotick (CEO of Activision) will step down, and the board will be expanded to 11 members from the current ten. The two...
 
 
 
 
 
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Yahoo and the two new board members (to be)

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2008-08-14 07:10:00 by Sardar Mohkim Khan in Startup Meme
...Board last month and the shareholders meeting that proceeded without his presence on a pretty disappointing note . There was however another interesting aspect regarding the compromise between the two; which stated that Yahoo would have two more members included, taking the number to 11 members It appears that Yahoo might just make an...