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Microsoft (MSFT) to Yahoo (YHOO) Shareholders: Fire Board and We Might Buy Company

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2008-07-07 13:41:00 by Henry Blodget in Silicon Alley Insider
...shareholders fire the board, Microsoft might reward them by ending their pain and buying the whole company W]e have never been able to reach an agreement in a timely way on acceptable terms with the current management and Board of Directors at Yahoo!. We have concluded that we cannot reach an agreement with them. We confirm, however, that...
 
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Investor Activist Urges Yahoo Shareholders To Split The Difference Between Icahns Board Picks and Yahoos

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2008-07-21 06:49:44 by Erick Schonfeld in TechCrunch
...shareholders vote for four of Icahns nominees (Adam Dell, John Chapple, Lucian Bebchuk, and Edward Meyer) and keep five of the current board members (Vyomesh Joshi, Robert Kotick, Maggie Wilderotter, Gary Wilson, and Jerry Yang That sounds like a recipe for complete gridlock. Fortunately, Jackson only speaks for a tiny group of 150 Yahoo...
 
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Thanks For Shafting Yahoo's Shareholders, Jerry

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2008-06-15 02:54:00 by Henry Blodget in Silicon Alley Insider
...shareholders sure aren't Yes, it's true, you did try to salvage something by announcing a Google deal just a few hours after you and Microsoft revealed that your talks had officially ended. According to your press release, Yahoo will soon begin running ads sold by your archrival Well, good luck with that. First off, the deal presents clear...
 
Tags: yahoo, jerry, shareholders, microsoft, microsoft bureaucracy, deal, google deal, call microsoft, jerry yang
 
 
 
 
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Yahoo + Drama - Icahn = Shareholders meeting

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2008-08-02 10:59:08 by Sardar Mohkim Khan in Startup Meme
...shareholders meeting came up and was pretty cold towards the Yahoo board, especially CEO, Roy Bostock. The meeting that had created so much of a hype didnt turn out to be a show of fireworks as Icahn had previously compromised , winning his way into the board and then pulled off it a day before. But there was enough discontent with the board,...
 
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Microsoft shareholders drive down value of Yahoo bid

2008-02-06 19:17:00 by Ina Fried in Webware.com
 
...shareholders 0.9509 Microsoft shares for each Yahoo share they own Right now, both the exchange ratio and the cash price are fixed, meaning Microsoft is offering $31 in cash or roughly $27 in stock. Obviously, all the shareholders would want cash, but Microsoft has already specified that the deal is half cash and half stock All this is...
 
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Take-Two Shareholders Set To Vote On EA Posion Pill. But Pay Attention to GTA IV Sales*

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2008-04-17 13:29:00 by Peter Kafka in Silicon Alley Insider
...shareholders get to vote on a poison pill proposal at their annual shareholders meetings; and Whenever the first sales reports from Grand Theft Auto IV filter back to Wall Street, likely in the first day or two of May If the shareholders swallow the poison pill, they'll obviously be signalling that they're less likely to take EA's $26 a...
 
Tags: poison pill proposal, poison pill, wall street, take-two shareholders, acquire take-two interactive, annual shareholders meetings, gtaiv performance, gtaiv, sale april 29th
 
 
 
 
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Jerry Yang reaches out to Yahoo shareholders

2008-02-14 21:34:00 by Dawn Kawamoto in Webware.com
 
...shareholders on Wednesday and much of the language was similar to that in his e-mail to employees But News.com readers who bashed Yang for the absence of CAPITAL LETTERS in his previously posted e-mails should take note that the shareholders have CAPITAL LETTERS in their Yang letter In his letter regarding Microsoft's unsolicited bid , Yang...
 
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Take-Two Shareholders: We'll Pass On EA Offer (TTWO, ERTS)

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2008-04-18 03:00:00 by Vasanth Sridharan in Silicon Alley Insider
...shareholders reinstated the 8-member board at the company's annual shareholder meeting. In doing that, investors signaled their approval of the board's rejection of the $2 billion tender offer from Electronic Arts (ERTS Shareholders also approved the new executive incentive package that gives 1.5 million shares to ZelnickMedia, which controls...
 
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Yahoo Shareholders Claim Company Is Concealing Critical Documents

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2008-05-17 14:44:32 by Sean P. Aune in Mashable!
...shareholders lawyer stating that Yahoo is attempting to whitewash embarrassing documents related to a Yahoo employee severance plan adopted shortly after Microsoft made its initial bid (for the company) as well as details of a conversation between Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. The lawyer is requesting that the...
 
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