Entries tagged "Jerry Yang"
With Carl Icahn bidding adieu to Yahoo, CEO Carol Bartz will no longer have to quarrel with the outspoken activist investor.
Having never seen eye-to-eye with each other, fund manager Gordon Crawford, who's firm Capital Research and Management owns 6.5% of Yahoo! Inc., is -- in a sense -- picking up where Carl Icahn left off in his crusade against the Internet company's management. ...
The fight for Yahoo! Inc. has been like an epic Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier boxing match, with each side slugging away and refusing defeat. In the latest chapter in the Yahoo! saga, the search giant is reaching out to its shareholders via, of course, its own Internet site with an appeal to vote against Carl Icahn's slate of nominees for the Yahoo! board. Icahn is leading an effort to seize control of the Internet company's board of directors in hopes of engineering a deal between Yahoo! and Microsoft Corp. ...
A shareholder suit and a heated exchange between Yahoo! Inc. chairman Roy Bostock and activist investor Carl Icahn are the latest repercussions since Microsoft Corp. pulled its $47.5 billion bid for the search giant in Many and Icahn bought up shares, denounced the stalled talks and waged a proxy contest. A recap: ...
