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Carl Icahn: I Talk To Yahoo Management, And They Drive Me Nuts (YHOO)

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2008-06-04 22:54:00 by Peter Kafka in Silicon Alley Insider
Carl Icahn follows up his morning missive with a CNBC appearance, where he continues to beat his "give me my $34 a share now" drum (note that the network is now describing him as a "Legendary Activist Investor More jawboning than anything else here: Carl is appalled by the $2.4 billion severance package/poison pill; Carl demands that Yahoo sell...
 
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Microsoft, Yahoo, and Carl Icahn Descend Into Backstabbing Chaos*

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2008-07-14 15:52:00 by Henry Blodget in Silicon Alley Insider
...Carl Icahn would get control of what was left of Yahoo--is now being disavowed by people close to Microsoft. Microsoft's proposal has no such condition, says Microsoft We still have more work to do, but it now seems as though Microsoft was either used by Carl Icahn or is throwing Carl Icahn under a bus in an attempt to restart search talks....
 
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Sorry, Carl Icahn, We're Not Voting For Your Yahoo (YHOO) Director Slate

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2008-06-05 17:05:00 by Henry Blodget in Silicon Alley Insider
...Carl Icahn and get Jerry fired Well, guess what? We don't need seven weeks. We've already made up our minds. We're voting for Jerry Why? Not because we have something against Carl or because we're happy with the way Yahoo's been run or because we think Jerry's been doing a spectacular job. On the contrary: We're appalled by the coma Yahoo...
 
Tags: yahoo, carl, carl icahn, coma yahoo, salvage yahoo, yahoo-google, microsoft, microsoft negotiations, jerry
 
 
 
 
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Will Carl Icahn Get Buried in His Yahoo (YHOO) Position?

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2008-06-12 11:48:00 by Henry Blodget in Silicon Alley Insider
...Carl Icahn will win his Yahoo (YHOO) proxy fight . We also think that, even if he wins the proxy fight, he will have a tough time persuading Microsoft to buy the company for anything close to $34 a share Why With regard to the proxy fight, we still don't think Carl Icahn has a plan for Yahoo other than selling to Microsoft (and using the...
 
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Blow to Icahn: Proxy Loss Triggers Yahoo (YHOO) Severance Bonanza. When Will Carl Give Up and Sell?

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2008-06-11 09:52:00 by Henry Blodget in Silicon Alley Insider
...Carl Icahn's Yahoo (YHOO) slate: If he wins the proxy contest, this will trigger the massive severance-bonus plan Yahoo put in place to fight off Microsoft . This will ensure that whatever management moves Carl's new board makes will cost shareholders a ton of money and put Yahoo even more behind the eight ball Yahoo's executives can't just...
 
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How Carl Icahn Screwed Up a Perfectly Good Search Deal

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2008-07-14 18:43:00 by Henry Blodget in Silicon Alley Insider
...Carl Icahn disagree about a critical part of the search proposal that Yahoo rejected over the weekend: whether or not it required that Carl Icahn be given control of Yahoo This is important because this condition was an obvious deal-killer. Absent such a condition, Microsoft's new search proposal is actually reasonable (or at least worth...
 
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Yahoo, Icahn Settle: Carl Gets 3 Seats, Agrees To Shut Up

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2008-07-21 07:50:00 by Peter Kafka in Silicon Alley Insider
...Carl agrees stop fighting. The basics Yahoo will keep 8 of its 9 existing directors; Activision/Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick will leave The board gets expanded to 11 seats. Carl gets one, and the board picks two more from a pool that includes his proposed slate, plus former AOL CEO Jon Miller. Which means: Carl, Miller and someone else join the...
 
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Carl Icahn, Comedian (YHOO)

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2008-05-14 19:50:00 by Peter Kafka in Silicon Alley Insider
...Carl Icahn? Jerry's been busy lately, so he may not have had time to read a comprehenisve dossier on the famed greenmailer (or to get through this awesome retelling of Icahn vs. Dick Parsons, courtesy of the New Yorker Update: Looks like Icahn will make a run for Yahoo . Look out But here's a nice set of snapshots of Carl and where he comes...
 
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