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Entries tagged "Carl Icahn"

AOL

It's official. Time Warner Inc. will finally spin off AOL LLC on Dec. 9, 2009. Since the landmark merger that brought Time Warner and AOL together in 2000, it's been a bumpy ride.

Blockbuster Inc.

Facing increasing competition and struggling with its own debt, Blockbuster Inc. (NYSE:BBI) is in defensive mode, doing all it can to conserve cash and maintain liquidity.

Carl Icahn

Biogen, WCI, Tropicana ... another day, another company for activist investor Carl Icahn. Here's the latest.

Activist investors' retail campaigns

Target defeats Ackman.

Debt exchange lowdown

They are a powerful restructuring tool, but understanding market and legal dynamics is key.

Transactions: Jan. 12, 2009

Bernie Madoff's remarkably steady 10% return tells us a lot about investor expectations: big enough to get rich, but not large enough to attract attention.

Look out!

Here comes a new year.

On guard

Your odds of receiving a hostile bid are getting higher.

Optimistic activists

The financial crisis has made for some tempting targets for hedge funds, but expect fewer demands for cash payouts and more calls for better management.

ImClone

Massachusetts' State-Boston Pension Fund has stepped in with a lawsuit to block Eli Lilly's $6.5 billion deal for ImClone.

The fight for Yahoo!

It had looked like Yahoo!'s takeover struggle with Microsoft could come down to a proxy fight with Carl Icahn. The two sides settled, but here's a look at the two slates of candidates.

Carl Icahn, Icahn Enterprises chairman

Icahn's long career as an activist investor includes governance battles with RJR Nabisco, Viacom, Time Warner, Motorola and many other public companies.

Let freedom rock

Online music startup SpiralFrog takes a leap by giving tunes away, and Icahn joins the blogosphere.