http://www.wikio.com/search=Icahn Wikio - Icahn http://www.wikio.com/search/Icahn?rinfoid=62982388 Tech Confidential submits: With his chances to take full control of the Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) board of directors somewhere between slim and none, Carl Icahn's best bet to have a say in the Internet company's future lies in getting a few seats on the board. It's something we brought up last month, but the prospect is beginning to pick up steam. The tapped-in Kara Swisher is reporting at All Things Digital that Icahn and Yahoo! are in talks about just that. Yahoo!'s impetus for making such a deal is to avoid the messiness that typically surrounds proxy fights. Icahn's goal would be to get some representation so he can have more oversight on his sizable investment in the company. The two sides apparently are negotiating on the number of seats Icahn could get. Complete Story » Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:40:08 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Icahn?rinfoid=62982388 2008-07-04T07:40:08Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Icahn?rinfoid=62981118 Yahoo Inc. shares climbed for a second day in Nasdaq trading Thursday after a report that the Internet company may compromise to end a proxy challenge by billionaire investor Carl Icahn. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:22:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Icahn?rinfoid=62981118 2008-07-04T07:22:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Icahn?rinfoid=62971102 By The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Unable to strike a deal on its own, Microsoft Corp. reportedly is hoping to snap up Yahoo's online search operations with the help of News Corp. and Time Warner Inc. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:00:04 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Icahn?rinfoid=62971102 2008-07-04T05:00:04Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Icahn?rinfoid=62991231 According to the Associated Press it sounds like Microsoft is going after Yahoo!’s online search operations again. This time the company is not looking to go it alone, however. They want to bring in News Corp. and Time Warner Inc., who maintain significant online assets. When the news hit the street Yahoo! stock got a small 3% bump on Wednesday. Clearly, some stockholders reacted favorably to the idea of a sale of at least part of the company. It’s that favoritism towards a sale that is driving Carl Icahn’s bid to replace Yahoo!’s board at the next annual shareholders meeting on August 1st. In the hope of side-stepping a battle with Icahn, AllThingsD Online is reporting that Yahoo! may be considering offering two board seats to Icahn to appease him. Unfortunately for Yahoo!, that’s not enough because it sounds like Icahn wants four. It’s good to hear that the leadership at Yahoo! knows that if there is a way to settle this proxy battle with Icahn before the annual shareholder meeting they should take it. I’ll be curious to see if Icahn and Yahoo! would agree to something in the middle like three board seats. If Icahn thinks he has a good chance of pushing his full slate through I can understand why he may believe that two seats are not enough. The fact that Yahoo! is even offering Icahn board seats shows the leadership at Yahoo! is nervous about the proxy battle. Read more at the Associated Press and AllThings D Online articles. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:13:53 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Icahn?rinfoid=62991231 2008-07-04T01:13:53Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Icahn?rinfoid=62951305 Yahoo! is considering offering Carl Icahn two seats on its board to avoid an all-out clash at its annual meeting next month. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:19:10 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Icahn?rinfoid=62951305 2008-07-03T23:19:10Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Icahn?rinfoid=62940675 Activist shareholder buys into auto parts supplier. 4 Jul 2008 4:21 AM Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:13:52 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Icahn?rinfoid=62940675 2008-07-03T21:13:52Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Icahn?rinfoid=62919175 Yahoo! and Goldman Sachs, its Wall Street adviser, are understood to have scheduled the whole of the July 4 public holiday in the US, which begins tomorrow, engaged in talks with Time Warner. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:44:15 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Icahn?rinfoid=62919175 2008-07-03T17:44:15Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Icahn?rinfoid=62923062 Corporate greenmailer Carl Icahn, some old dude who was stupid enough to buy a lot of shares of Yahoo on the premise that Microsoft would buy the company after it said it wouldn't, wants four seats... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:40:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Icahn?rinfoid=62923062 2008-07-03T17:40:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Icahn?rinfoid=62924213 The cost of energy is going to be higher. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:00:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Icahn?rinfoid=62924213 2008-07-03T17:00:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Icahn?rinfoid=62908548 Is the price of coal a ‘canary in the coal mine’? (FT Alphaville) Commodity funds come in a variety of flavors. (WSJ.com, Morningstar.com) Carl Icahn’s activist hedge fund is in a slump. (Bloomberg.com) The VIX doesn’t matter…until it does. (Daily Options Report) Is FAS 157 to blame for today’s credit market woes? (Information Arbitrage also FT Alphaville) KKR is “still [...] Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:55:20 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Icahn?rinfoid=62908548 2008-07-03T15:55:20Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Icahn?rinfoid=62899485 Carl Icahn is down a couple hundred million dollars on his Yahoo (YHOO) gamble. His buddies, Boone Pickens and Dan Loeb--if they haven't run for the hills--are getting buried, too. So they want blood (in the form of control). Yahoo, meanwhile, is getting shelled from all sides for blowing the Microsoft deal, especially as its stock sags back toward the teens. There's at least some chance that Jerry and the board will be tossed out on their rears at next month's shareholder meeting. So Yahoo's trying to find some way to broker a peace. Specifically, Yahoo is considering bribing Icahn by giving him two board seats, says Kara Swisher . Of course, Icahn's smart enough to know that all this will do is allow him to insult Yahoo board members in person a few times a year, so he wants more. Specifically, he wants four. Four seats wouldn't give Icahn a majority (the board is currently 9), but it would put him in a position in which he only had to persuade one additional member to make changes. The first change he'd make? Based on his previous vituperations, tossing Jerry. See Also: Yahoo, Microsoft, Time Warner, News Corp, and AOL Agree To Talk Forever and Do Nothin g Latest Yahoo Chatter: Jerry and Sue Toast Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:15:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Icahn?rinfoid=62899485 2008-07-03T15:15:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Icahn?rinfoid=62897668 Yahoo continues to hold merger talks with Time Warner, discussing a deal that would fold AOL into Yahoo and give Time Warner a minority stake in the new company. Another morning, another round of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:00:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Icahn?rinfoid=62897668 2008-07-03T15:00:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Icahn?rinfoid=62926381 With his chances to take full control of the Yahoo! Inc. [YHOO] board of directors somewhere between slim and none, Carl Icahn's best bet to have a say in... Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:55:07 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Icahn?rinfoid=62926381 2008-07-03T14:55:07Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Icahn?rinfoid=62900045 In its recent presentation to investors, Yahoo correctly pointed out that Carl Icahn has not had much success in recent battles with corporate management. In fact, his track record looks miserable. But they made a key error in their analysis. Where is Yahoo on this list? As one of his largest and most public [...] Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:59:41 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Icahn?rinfoid=62900045 2008-07-03T13:59:41Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Icahn?rinfoid=62874822 Carl C. Icahn has hit a bump along the hedge-fund road. The activist investor’s $7.9 billion in hedge funds fell 7 percent between October and April, the biggest peak-to-trough loss since the funds opened in November 2004, Bloomberg News reported citing investors. Mr. Icahn has notably lost money on Motorola, his biggest investment. The billionaire [...] Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:58:47 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Icahn?rinfoid=62874822 2008-07-03T11:58:47Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Icahn?rinfoid=62874828 Microsoft and Yahoo have been holding separate talks with other potential media partners after their negotiations with each other broke down, Reuters reported citing unnamed sources. Microsoft is talking about alternative deals with Time Warner, which owns AOL, and News Corporation, parent of MySpace, a source close to Microsoft said, but such discussions remain preliminary — [...] Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:53:52 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Icahn?rinfoid=62874828 2008-07-03T11:53:52Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Icahn?rinfoid=62871605 In a fit of desperation not rivaled since the Grande Armee retreated from Moscow, Yahoo! is trying to find a refuge from onslaughts by Carl Icahn, Microsoft... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:27:36 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Icahn?rinfoid=62871605 2008-07-03T10:27:36Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Icahn?rinfoid=62861127 Yesterday came word that Microsoft was talking to Time Warner and News Corp. about potential deals to help it acquire Yahoo. So naturally today comes word that Yahoo is talking to those very same companies about doing similar deals — just without Microsoft, according to the Wall Street Journal. The whole thing is just ridiculous. We’re [...] Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:24:26 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Icahn?rinfoid=62861127 2008-07-03T10:24:26Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Icahn?rinfoid=62865706 Yahoo leadership, trying to stave off a major clash at its annual meeting on August 1 with activist investor Carl Icahn, is contemplating offering him two board seats to assuage him, said several sources close to the situation. The problem? Icahn, who has put up his own new slate of directors to replace Yahoo's entire current board as part of a proxy fight, wants at least four, sources said. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:15:11 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Icahn?rinfoid=62865706 2008-07-03T10:15:11Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Icahn?rinfoid=62857990 SAN FRANCISCO – Unable to strike a deal on its own, Microsoft reportedly is hoping to snap up Yahoo's online search operations with the help of News Corp. and Time Warner. The latest twist in Microsoft's convoluted courtship caused Yahoo's shares to rise more than 3 percent in yesterday's sinking stock market, even though the chances of a deal getting done still seemed remote. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:03:14 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Icahn?rinfoid=62857990 2008-07-03T10:03:14Z