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Icahn asks Yang to stop his bullshit, But will it work

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2008-06-05 11:54:50 by Bilal Hameed in Startup Meme
...Yang have acted against the interests of the shareholders by implementing a severance plan that has entrenched Yahoo against Microsofts bid. The plan allows Yahoo employees to walk away with hefty amounts if and when Microsoft acquires it, sighting any stupid reason. Once the employees are gone Yahoo would be as good as dead meat for...
 
Tags: acquisition, microsoft acquisition, yahoo acquisition, current yahoo board, yahoo board, acquire yahoo, acquire, yahoo, yahoo time
 
 
 
 
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Icahn Calls Yahoo "Deceitful," Demands Yang Rescind $2.4B Severance Bonus Plan

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2008-06-04 19:16:00 by Henry Blodget in Silicon Alley Insider
...Yang and the Yahoo board have gone to in order to entrench their positions and keep shareholders from deciding if they wished to sell to Microsoft Until now I naively believed that self-destructive doomsday machines were fictional devices found only in James Bond movies. I never believed that anyone would actually create and activate one in...
 
Tags: yahoo, rescind, current yahoo board, yang, acquire yahoo, yahoo time, simply rescind, salvage yahoo, salvage
 
 
 
 
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Is Yang prepared for the Yahoo Shareholders meeting?

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2008-07-29 12:31:47 by Sardar Mohkim Khan in Startup Meme
...Yang and the gang taking a break away from the regular spice they always had for news readers but Fridays shareholders meeting might just bring out something totally unexpected. For? Yahoo and more importantly Yang; the co-founder might have had a run away from Icahn ( the untrustworthy ) and Microsoft s plans at ousting the fighter along...
 
Tags: yahoo, yang, board, board eager, board directs yahoo, yahoo music, importantly yang, speaks yang, yahoo crashes
 
 
 
 
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Jerry Yang: Were Done

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2008-05-28 22:28:58 by Michael Arrington in TechCrunch
...Yang and President Sue Decker (my real time notes are here , see Peter Kafkas notes as well The two key topics of the interview were the failed Microsoft merger, and Yahoos core focus as a company. And while Yang never actually said the words quoted in the title above, his tone and body language screamed Were Done. He was resigned....
 
Tags: yahoos core focus, core focus, yang, focus, microsoft, microsoft merger, president sue decker, decker, yahoo
 
 
 
 
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Week In Review: Bring Me The Head Of Jerry Yang!

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2008-06-07 11:30:00 by Eric Krangel in Silicon Alley Insider
...Yang. He's doing his best signal that Yahoo (YHOO) desperately wants to resume merger negotiations with Microsoft (MSFT) , but Steve Ballmer won't bite. Meanwhile, "activist investor" (to put it mildly) Carl Icahn won't forgive Yang for failing to close the deal last round, and publicly called for Yang to be fired . Icahn's Exhibit A: Yang's...
 
Tags: yang, icahn, carl icahn, poor jerry yang, icahn represents, yang-icahn quarrel, forgive yang, microsoft, anti-microsoft
 
 
 
 
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Mr. Yang Goes To Washington...To Try to Parry Microsoft Attack on Yahoo-Google Deal

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2008-06-19 11:10:00 by Henry Blodget in Silicon Alley Insider
...Yang rushed to Capitol Hill yesterday to calm legislators who are no doubt being force-fed horror stories about the Yahoo-Google (GOOG) search deal. Who is telling legislators these terrifying tales? Do you really have to ask WSJ: On Wednesday, Rep. Joe Barton (R., Texas), the ranking Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee,...
 
Tags: yahoo-google deal, deal, yahoo-google, yahoo, google-yahoo, yahoo-google pact, google, online-search market, online-search
 
 
 
 
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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
...Yang has clarified as to why they have been discontent with 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 )....
 
Tags: deal, icahn, yahoo, yahoo microsoft deal, carl icahn, microsoft, icahn-microsoft agenda -as, agenda, company
 
 
 
 
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Jerry Yang reaches out to Yahoo shareholders

2008-02-14 21:34:00 by Dawn Kawamoto in Webware.com
 
...Yang dished out a letter to shareholders on Wednesday and much of the language was similar to that in his e-mail to employees But News.com readers who bashed Yang for the absence of CAPITAL LETTERS in his previously posted e-mails should take note that the shareholders have CAPITAL LETTERS in their Yang letter In his letter regarding...
 
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Icahn Ramps Up Pressure, Vows To Get Jerry Yang Fired (YHOO)

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2008-06-03 18:34:00 by Henry Blodget and Dan Frommer in Silicon Alley Insider
...Yang fired as CEO for blowing off Microsoft's $44.6 billion bid, the Wall Street Journal reports Like most of Icahn's public statements, this one is carefully designed...to increase the pressure on Yahoo's board and Jerry Yang. The last thing Icahn wants to do is actually go through a nail-biting proxy fight, especially with no plan as to how...
 
Tags: icahn, jerry yang, jerry, yang, carl, carl icahn, yahoo, scare yahoo, artful icahn rhetoric