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...Yahoo. Microsoft also tried to buy AOL after it failed to acquire Yahoo. The new Yahoo board, which includes activist investor Carl Icahn and two of his nominees, is planning a new approach for AOL. Yahoo recently signed a web advertising... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/09/25/232446/yahoo-in-aol-takeover-talks-with-time-warner.htm
...bid to buy the firm, profits have slipped. Earlier this week, Yahoo announced a deal with Carl Icahn, the activist investor who wanted to sell the company to Microsoft. In exchange for three seats on an extended board, he dropped his attempt... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/07/24/231616/yahoo-sales-up-but-profits-slip.htm
...meeting, with Bostock backed by 80%. Just before the meeting, Yahoo announced an agreement with Carl Icahn, the activist investor who wanted to sell the company to Microsoft, under which he dropped his attempt to oust the directors in return... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/08/06/231766/shareholder-backing-for-yahoo-chiefs-falls-after-recount.htm
...shareholders of Yahoo or Microsoft or with other third parties." The approach came days after Carl Icahn, a Yahoo activist investor, put pressure on Yahoo to reopen talks about selling itself to Microsoft. Icahn has already put up an alternative... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/05/19/230736/microsoft-makes-fresh-approach-for-yahoo.htm

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...editor in chief, Dan Farber. Believe it or not, there's more news on the Yahoo front. This time another activist investor--no, it's not Carl Icahn--has an idea how to better populate the company's board of directors. Microsoft... http://news.cnet.com/daily-podcast/?keyword=Windows+XP
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