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  Icahn Trumps Yahoo Board: "You're Fired!"

  http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/080515-094228
  71 days ago in Search Engine Watch Blog: Search Marketing News · Authority: 1,586

  Yahoo may need to fight off Carl Icahn Syndrome by Proxy today. Munchausen syndrome by proxy (MSP) is a type of factitious disorder which appears strikingly similar to the Icahn strategy. MSP is a mental illness where a person acts as if an individual
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  Icahn has Yahoo?

  http://www.dustbury.com/backlog/2008/05/icahn_has_yahoo.html
  71 days ago in dustbury.com · Authority: 170

  Without making a fuss about it, Carl Icahn has piled up about 50 million shares of Yahoo!, about 3.6 percent of the company. Now he's going to make a fuss: Icahn plans to nominate as many as ten directors to the Yahoo! board in an effort to prod the
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  Icahn To Make Yahoo Move; Google Worries Yahoo Will Learn From Ad Deal

  http://searchengineland.com/080515-072325.php
  71 days ago in Search Engine Land: Must Read News About Search Marketing & Search Engines · Authority: 4,662

  More rumors about yesterday's news that Carl Icahn may want to take control of Microsoft. He apparently plans to nominate 10 directors to replace Yahoo's board later today, reports the Wall Street Journal, using an unnamed source. But Microsoft might no
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  links for 2008-05-15

  http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/digitalcontent/2008/05/links_for...
  70 days ago in PDA: The Digital Content Blog | Guardian Unlimited · Authority: 621

  links for 2008-05-15 Jemima Kiss / Newsbucket 08:30pm Ask.com buys Dictionary.com parent Lexico Search site Ask.com will announce on Thursday a deal to buy Lexico, home to popular reference Web sites Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com, a move that will
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  Dealing with Barbarians at the Gates - the Byzantine way

  http://broadstuff.com/archives/950-Dealing-with-Barbarians-a...
  71 days ago in broadstuff · Authority: 159

  A few days ago I noted there are lessons to be learned for Yahoo and Microsift in studying how the Romans kept big, old empires together - now comes news of a classic Barbarians at the Gate syndrome, with Carl Icahn threatening to board and sack Yahoo's
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  Wall Street Rumors, May 15, 2008

  http://www.investortrip.com/wall-street-rumors-may-15-2008/
  71 days ago in InvestorTrip.com: Stock Market & Financial Investing Advice · Authority: 77

  Daily rumors covering the global markets. Subscribe to the daily update feed here. CBS Agrees to Buy CNET CBS Corp. (NYSE:CBS), agreed to acquire online news provider CNET Networks Inc., (NASDAQ:CNET), for about $1.8 billion, just as CNETs battle with
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  Deals of the Day: CNET and Yahoo Huddle Together Against Activists

  http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2008/05/15/deals-of-the-day-for-s...
  71 days ago in Deal Journal - WSJ.com · Authority: 523

  -With Heidi Moore Deals of the Day includes all the major news of the morning related to mergers and acquisitions and financing. For breaking deal news, turn to the WSJs Deals & Deal Makers page, or click here to automatically sign up for Deals
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  2008 05-15 MediaBytes: ICAHN - YAHOO - COMCAST - GOOGLE - VERIZON - LIMO - TURNER NETWORKS

  http://www.shellypalmermedia.com/2008/05/15/2008-05-15-media...
  71 days ago in MediaBytes With Shelly Palmer - Technology, Media and Entertainment News and Opinions · Authority: 112

  CARL ICAHN is launching a proxy contest to replace YAHOOs board of directors. Icahn plans to nominate 10 directors including former Viacom Inc. Chief Executive FRANK BIONDI. Icahns board will push to reopen negotiations with MICROSOFT, however, sources
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  BREAKING: Icahn Moving Forward With Yahoo Proxy Fight; To Nominate Full Board Slate: Report

  http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-breaking-icahn-moving-f...
  71 days ago in paidContent.org · Authority: 2,468

  BREAKING: Icahn Moving Forward With Yahoo Proxy Fight; To Nominate Full Board Slate: Report By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 14 May 2008 02:02 PM PST Carl Icahn has decided to fight a proxy battle with Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and file a full board slate, Reuters is
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  Yahoo's Diminishing Options

  http://www.theconglomerate.org/2008/05/yahoos-diminish.html
  71 days ago in Conglomerate Blog: Business, Law, Economics & Society · Authority: 179

  Carl Ichan has purchased roughly 50 million Yahoo shares since Microsoft withdrew its offer for Yahoo (no wonder Yahoo's stock dropped to only $25), and today Icahn announced that he is launching a proxy context for control of the Yahoo board of

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