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Jonathon Miller Not Interested in Yahoo

December 4th, 2008

In an update to yesterday’s story, former AOL head Jonathon Miller has stated he is NOT interested in buying out Yahoo – rather, the capital stake he is putting together is for his own venture capital firm, Velocity Interactive Group. It will be a firm focused on digital media. This just goes to show that [...]

 
 

Icahn and Miller Yahoo’s Salvation?

December 3rd, 2008

Carl Icahn is stepping up to the plate, as CEO Jerry Yang of Yahoo steps down. The mogul and corporate raider secured a hefty chunk of Yahoo stock in preparation for a hostile takeover of the board this summer, but was pre-empted by the failed deal with Microsoft and the signing of a deal with [...]

 
 

Yahoo Stalled on Side of Road?

October 22nd, 2008

Yahoo may have missed the opportunity of a lifetime when they turned down rival Microsoft’s offer to buy the company out earlier this year. Since the initial flurry of activity following the failed merger (which included a reshuffle of the board to include Carl Icahn and cronies, an impetuous ad deal with Google and the [...]

 
 

YahAOL?

September 28th, 2008

  InJuly, Time Warner seemed to think that letting Yahoo have AOL in return for a stake was a good idea. That drifted past in the microsft / Yahoo / Google war, but there are again rumors that Carl Icahn is pushing for an AOL acquisition. Some even seem to think that the merger would [...]

 
 

Miscount Humiliates Yahoo, Yang

August 6th, 2008

After reports of an overwhelming majority vote that reseated Yahoos incumbent board members, it has been reported that the third party that does the ballot calculations actually made an error. Yang and his buddies are still in like Flynn – just not by nearly as much margin as was supposed. The original tally came out [...]