Stories tagged "icahn"

Yahoo says in a regulatory filing that it paid $36 million in the first half of the year for advice on dealing with Microsoft's acquisition proposals, Carl Icahn, the potential proxy contest and "other strategic alternatives."

Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and Chairman Roy Bostock reiterate in their letter their willingness to sell the entire company to Microsoft for no less than $33 a share

Microsoft said its latest proposal -- made Friday -- to purchase Yahoo's search business was actually the idea of Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock.

As Yahoo's investors stand ready to weigh in on the weekend's events come Monday morning, one thing on their mind is likely to be how sweet was the Microsoft-Icahn proposal to acquire only Yahoo's search business. Read this blog post by Dawn Kawamoto on N

Yahoo's board angrily rejects a joint offer from Microsoft and the investor Carl Icahn, describing it as "ludicrous".

You've heard said "keep your friends close, but your enemies closer," now Yahoo wants to test the boundaries of that maxim to the full.

Dissident Yahoo shareholder Carl Icahn and Microsoft have been talking to each other (as has everyone else involved in a possible Yahoo deal, ...

A look at how MSFT dealt with the DOJ and lessons that might impart for YHOO

And you thought a deal between Microsoft and Yahoo was over and done with? Not so fast.

Yes it was in January 2007 that Yahoo board rejected Microsoft offer of $40 per share which is 30% higher than what Microsoft recently offered according to the document filed in court. This was revealed in documents unsealed in a court case...