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Yahoo! appoints Carl Icahn to board, but Time Warner non-compete clause keeps Jon Miller off

Yahoo! Inc.'s shareholder meeting Friday puts Jonathan Miller back in the spotlight. The former AOL-turnaround-CEO-turned-full-time-investor had been considered a shoe-in for the search engine's new board. His candidacy for board membership was...


Former AOL chief Jonathan Miller board candidate under Icahn-Yahoo! truce

Former AOL chairman and CEO Jonathan Miller is the new board of directors candidate under activist investor Carl Icahn's agreement with Yahoo! Inc., announced early Monday morning. Under the truce--which...


Dealmakers slideshow: Meet the rival board slates for Yahoo!

While Legg Mason Capital Management [LM] endorsed Yahoo! Inc.'s [YHOO] board of directors Friday, Yahoo! shareholders will get their chance to vote on August 1. The choice is between overhauling the board and handing...


Seesmic buys Twitter client Twhirl

Seesmic, a service that makes it easy for people to have informal video conversations over the Internet and that recently raised $6 million from some of the most well-known tech investors in the...


Scott Karp: 'You can't just ride the old business model all the way down'

Publish2 Inc., a Digg-like news aggregation service for professional journalists founded by Publishing 2.0 blogger Scott Karp (pictured), has raised a $2.75 million Series A from Velocity Interactive Group. "Think...


Calacanis: 'I try to scare people'

"I interview every single person who comes to work for me," says Mahalo.com Inc. founder Jason Calacanis, who recently took some heat for advising startups to fire anyone who isn't...


Balderton Capital scores on Bebo sale, but could it have done even better?

The sale of social networking firm Bebo Inc. to Time Warner Inc.'s [TWX] AOL division for $850 million is a big win for Balderton Capital, the European venture capital firm...



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Paulson's proposal to purchase an equity stake in Yellow Pages publisher Idearc is the second time in recent months an investor group has used its prepetition debt position to execute a bargain price 'exit LBO.'


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Managing your shareholder base

Growth companies and their PE sponsors should be wary of the pitfalls that arise when they layer on tiers of preferred stock.


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Corporate buyers face numerous complexities when trying to identify the right moment to purchase a distressed asset.



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