Carl Icahn (pictured at right) lost his bid for a seat on the Motorola Inc. board by a relatively small margin. Icahn received 717.1 million votes while incumbent board member John White got 931.7 million votes. (All the other directors that were re-elected to the board received at least 1.6 billion votes.) Icahn's response to this fairly strong showing will probably depend on whether he's a glass-half-full or glass-half-empty kind of guy. On the one hand, some 717 million shareholders gave him the nod. Not bad for a dissident shareholder who by his own admission had no experience running a cell-phone business. On the other hand, Icahn was defeated by another director whose day job is far removed from the telecom sector. A Motorola board member since 1995, White is the chancellor and distinguished professor of industrial engineering of the University of Arkansas. —Andrea Orr
See Reuters story on Motorola vote count
See May 1, 2007, story on Motorola board members
See Icahn Dealwatch on Dealscape
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