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Investor Carl Icahn leaves Yahoo board, apparently satisfied

Source: Venture Beat
San Francisco : CA : USA | about 1 month ago  
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A view of Yahoo! corporate headquarters in Sunnyvale, Californi
Carl Icahn, the Yahoo investor who attempted a hostile takeover of the company last year, has resigned from the board of directors. Icahn’s move against Yahoo’s board, especially then-chief executive Jerry Yang, was prompted by the failure of the struggling company to reach...
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  • News Source: BBC | about 1 month ago
    Mr Icahn said he thought the company no longer needed an activist investor as a director, and his attention was now "focused on other matters". Mr Icahn was involved in a very public dispute last year with Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang over the...
  • News Source: The Mercury News | about 1 month ago
    10/23/2009 04:21:17 PM PDT Activist investor Carl Icahn resigned from Yahoo's board Friday, praising the company's new leadership and saying he wants to focus on other activities. A frequent critic of Yahoo's management in the past, Icahn said in a...
  • News Source: Venture Beat | about 1 month ago
    Carl Icahn, the Yahoo investor who attempted a hostile takeover of the company last year, has resigned from the board of directors. Icahn’s move against Yahoo’s board, especially then-chief executive Jerry Yang, was prompted by the failure of the...
  • News Source: CNN | about 1 month ago
    Activist investor Carl Icahn is resigning from Yahoo Inc.'s board of directors. Fortune 500 )'s board last summer after trying to take control of the company, said on Friday that there was no longer a need for an activist director at the firm.
  • News Source: Times Online | about 1 month ago
    Mr Icahn said in a letter to the board that he no longer felt it was necessary to have an activist as a director. There were a number of other companies on which he was currently focused, and he would not have time to focus on Yahoo!'s affairs, he...
  • News Source: International Herald Tribune | about 1 month ago
    Brad Stone Reporter, San Francisco Internet, technology and society, policy and law, security, social networks, electronic commerce, eBay, Amazon.com Ashlee Vance Reporter, San Francisco Enterprise computing, software, network technology,...
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    Earlier this week, billionaire investor and CIT bondholder Carl Icahn offered to loan the company the $6 billion in new financing it was seeking if it would halt its current debt exchange offer. Icahn has criticized the board for ...
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    Report: CIT reaches tentative deal with Goldman The Associated Press Earlier this week, billionaire investor and CIT bondholder Carl Icahn offered to loan the company the $6 billion in new financing it was seeking if it would ... and ...
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    CIT Group Inc. (CIT), which is struggling to restructure billions in debt and stay out of bankruptcy court, has reached a tentative deal with Goldman Sachs. ... Others have also explored financing for CIT, including billionaire investor Carl Icahn,
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    CIT reached a tentative agreement with Goldman Sachs, easing the terms of a disputed loan and smoothing the way for CIT to gain new financing from its bondholders. View original here: CIT and Goldman Strike Debt Deal ...
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