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,...