SEARCH RESULTS
 
Showing 1-10 of 288 records
 
Expand article

Yang and the Board eager for Microsoft deal; Icahn still bad for Yahoo

The Article has images
2008-07-18 07:33:52 by Sardar Mohkim Khan in Startup Meme
...Icahn plans and Yang making sure at hurling enough stones at Microsoft/Icahn team, there must have been some discussion within the Yahoo premises after they had declined the proposal from Microsoft (something that made Microsoft cry in the Senate hearing over the Yahoo/Google deal ). Yang still keeps his verdict about Icahn stating that the...
 
Tags: deal, icahn, yahoo, yahoo microsoft deal, carl icahn, microsoft, icahn-microsoft agenda -as, agenda, company
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Yahoo Smart To Reject Latest Microsoft-Icahn Offer, Which Was Just a Proxy Ploy

The Article has images
2008-07-13 08:52:00 by Henry Blodget in Silicon Alley Insider
...Icahn made another formal, non-negotiable offer on Friday night to buy Yahoo's search assets (without releasing details) and gave the company 24 hours to accept or reject it. Yahoo (YHOO) rejected it. Yahoo also blasted Microsoft for its erratic behavior and "suggested" that Microsoft just buy the whole company for $33 or more. Based on...
 
Tags: yahoo management, management, current management, current yahoo management, icahn, yahoo, top management team, management team, yahoo management refuses
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Yahoo! Speaks Yang way; rejects Microsoft/Icahn plans at Yahoos makeover

The Article has images
2008-07-13 06:54:52 by Sardar Mohkim Khan in Startup Meme
...Icahns personal grudges against him and the combined front put against him by Icahn and Microsoft to oust him . But the latest proposal bieng made by Microsoft to acquire Yaho has been declined by Yahoo. A kick too hard to burst the software giants bubble. The latest offer was a modification of theprevious one being made by Microsoft to...
 
Tags: yahoo, yahoo press, previously urged yahoo, microsoft yahoo, microsoft, coerce yahoo, icahn, microsoft corporation, microsofticahn
 
 
 
 
Expand article

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

The Article has images
2008-06-04 22:54:00 by Peter Kafka in Silicon Alley Insider
...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 to...
 
Tags: carl, carl icahn, carl demands, carl icahn joins, icahn, yahoo, severance package, package, microsoft
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Microsoft, Yahoo, and Carl Icahn Descend Into Backstabbing Chaos*

The Article has images
2008-07-14 15:52:00 by Henry Blodget in Silicon Alley Insider
...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. Here's...
 
Tags: carl, carl icahn, carl icahn agree, icahn, microsoft, yahoo, time microsoft, suspect carl icahn, yahoo shareholder
 
 
 
 
Expand article

SEC filing details Carl Icahn's matchmaking role in Oracle-BEA Systems deal

2008-02-08 20:25:00 by Dawn Kawamoto in Webware.com
 
...Icahn The shareholder activist apparently played matchmaker extrodinare in Oracle's $8.5 billion buyout bid for BEA Systems , according to BEA Systems' Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Thursday The SEC filing, which provides a behind-the-scenes look at the merger , not only gives a glimpse of Icahn's active matchmaking role...
 
Tags: bea systems, bea, bea systems announces, bea share, share, nondisclosure agreement bea, oracle, bea board, icahn
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Yahoo-Microsoft-Icahn: What Happens Next

The Article has images
2008-05-16 15:43:00 by Henry Blodget in Silicon Alley Insider
...Icahn saga is Carl Icahn's. As Yahoo (YHOO) wisely pointed out in its rebuff letter, there's no bid for Yahoo on the table right now, so it's hard to accuse Yahoo's board of doing anything worse than blowing the original negotiations The truth, of course, is that Icahn doesn't actually want to get Yahoo's board fired. What he wants to do is...
 
Tags: icahn, yahoo, carl icahn, microsoft, icahn board, accuse yahoo, yahoo shareholders, board, board fired
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Microsoft Signals It Would Rather Talk To An Icahn-Controlled Yahoo

The Article has images
2008-07-07 13:42:38 by Erick Schonfeld in TechCrunch
...Icahn and Microsoft have been talking to each other (as has everyone else involved in a possible Yahoo deal, including Yahoo and AOL over the weekend ). In a letter to shareholders, reproduced below, Icahn notes that he and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer have been discussing possible transactions over the past week, and that Ballmer made it...
 
Tags: yahoo, current, current yahoo board, current management, current board, outperform yahoo, chief yahoo, force yahoo, yahoo deal
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Yahoo uses Yahoo! to battle Icahn; Have a message for Stockholders

The Article has images
2008-07-19 10:51:53 by Sardar Mohkim Khan in Startup Meme
...Icahn off the command seat he is trying to be in by reshaping Yahoo and its management board. The chain at anti Icahn-ism began when Icahn voiced his opinion asking Jerry to stop his bullshit ; which was Jerrys stubbornness at not selling off to Microsoft. From there on Jerry stepped up and asked Stock holders to not trust Icahn at any...