marketwatch.com - 10/23/2009
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Carl Icahn said late Friday he has resigned from the board of directors at Yahoo Inc. /quotes/comstock/15*!yhoo ( YHOO 17.22 , -0.45 , -2.55% ) , saying that "there was not a need at this time for an activist investor" at the Internet company. Icahn said in a ...
blogs.computerworld.com - 10/25/2009
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blogs.computerworld.com —
, once the Internet's third most visited domain
, will be shutting down on Oct. 26, taking...
with it thousands of user home pages and decades of data. All that information will be history.... Fortunately, some historians are making sure it's not lost to ...
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Yahoo GeoCities closes on Oct. 26
businessinsider.com - 10/29/2009
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Microsoft (MSFT) and Yahoo (YHOO) have delayed signing
their search deal, Yahoo told the SEC in a...
filing. In their original Juy 29 agreement, Yahoo and Microsoft said they would sign finish negotiating the search deal by October 27. "But," reads ...
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Microsoft And Yahoo Delay Signing Search Deal
news.cnet.com - 10/19/2009
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SANTA MONICA, Calif.--Drive about 350 miles down U.S.
101 from Yahoo's Silicon Valley campus and you'll find...
what CEO Carol Bartz appears to believe is the future of her pioneering Internet company. Yes, we're talking about Yahoo's often-ridiculed ...
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Yahoo betting on content biz revival
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Carl Icahn Says His Work Is Done, Resigns From Yahoo’s Board
TechCrunch —
... Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is resigning from Yahoo’s board of directors. According to MarketWatch, he said “there was not a need at this time for an activist investor” at Yahoo anymore and that he’d rather focus on other companies. The subtext there being that either A) he feels that his work is done and he can move on now that the search deal with Microsoft is moving towards government approval, or B) he can make more money by trying to control some other company. ...
Carl Icahn resigns from Yahoo board of directors
Webware.com —
... MarketWatch reported Friday that Icahn has informed the company he's moving on to other interests. It's been a over a year since he forced his way onto the board after expressing his displeasure at Yahoo's rejection of Microsoft's offer to acquire the company, which at one point was valued at $33 a share. Yahoo's stock closed at $17.22 on Friday.
Yahoo confirmed Icahn's departure, and said in a statement: "Carl has been an important member of our Board and has helped us through some significant transitions. We are all grateful for his active role ...
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