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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 [...]

 
 

Yahoo Stockholders Meeting Anticlimactic

August 2nd, 2008

Well, we knew that. There really wasn’t any question after Icahn took the deal for seats on the board for himself and a few handpicked followers. Jonathon Miller won’t be one of them however – his non-compete agreement with AOL is still in effect, allowing Time Warner to block his joining the Yahoo board. The [...]

 
 

White Card Push for Re-election

July 15th, 2008

Icahn and Microsoft are openly in cahoots now, as the stockholders’ meeting looms imminent. Proposal after proposal is being fired at yahoo, apparently with the sole intent of being turned down. Then the corporate mogul and Redmond software company can roll their eyes and say how they are trying so hard to come to a [...]

 
 

Icahn + Yahoo = … Microsoft Again?

July 7th, 2008

Ouch. Just when you thought it was all over, here comes the fat lady. Microsoft, which has repeatedly told Yahoo that it is no longer interested in any sort of deal, might have been playing a deep hand. Reportedly, in a press release from the public relations department, the Redmond company has stated flatly that [...]

 
 

Yang / Bostock -2, Icahn-0

June 18th, 2008

 First came the flat out refusal of Microsoft’s buyout offer for Yahoo followed by the deal with Google. Now the push by Icahn backers to have a court case settled before the August stockholder meeting has failed.In Delaware, a judge refused to grant an expedited trial on the matter of whether or not Yahoo execs [...]