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4th UPDATE: Icahn Offers To Underwrite $6 Billion Loan To CIT
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| In May 2008, for instance, he launched a proxy
| fight to unseat Yahoo Inc.'s (YHOO) board after
| that wobbly web portal rejected a takeover by
| Microsoft...
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http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20091019-712989.html
Carl Icahn resigns from Yahoo board
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| Famed activist praises company's Microsoft
| deal, says he isn't needed anymore
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http://www.marketwatch.com/story/activist-investor-icahn-resigns-from-yahoo-board-2009-10-23-181300
He should be arrested.
Recent:
Yahoo feeling the Microsoft nudge
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| Yahoo shares edged up Tuesday as analysts and the company's own major
| shareholder and director Carl Icahn said they longed for the Internet search
| pioneer to entertain a search-only deal with Microsoft.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10082321-93.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Icahn Says Yahoo Should Do Search Deal With Microsoft
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| Billionaire investor and Yahoo Inc. (YHOO) board member Carl Icahn on Monday
| reiterated his position that the Internet giant should consider striking a
| search agreement with rival Microsoft Corp. (MSFT).
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http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200811031831DOWJONESDJONLINE000597_FORTUNE5.htm
Minorities and Corn Growers Rise Against Google-Yahoo.
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| A Microsoft funded PR firm is backing an odd collection of "community" groups
| against cooperation between Google and Yahoo. If Justice is blind, they
| should have a hard time blocking anything.
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http://slashdot.org/~twitter/journal/202702
Google-Yahoo! collects some strange enemies
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| The 16 groups wrote to Assistant Attorney General Thomas Barnett, warning
| that such mega-mergers usually work to the detriment of consumers and
| minority groups. It was Barnett who warned that European antitrust action
| against Microsoft might chill innovation and discourage competition.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/12/everyone_against_google_yahoo/
Corn Farmers Against Google?
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| Only if they're planting in AstroTurf
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| [...]
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| How do you know the organization, and the op-ed, weren't created by LawMedia
| Group at the behest of some well-funded clients? If they did their jobs
| right, you don't know.
|
| Some of them have left digital fingerprints here and there, though, says
| Declan McCullagh, in a blockbuster of a report exposing the intellectual
| whoredom offered for various important issues. Shortly after Microsoft hired
| LawMedia, for example, legislators, national agencies, and news outlets
| received pointed complaints from coalitions of farmers, rural voters, and
| geeky Latinos about how Google's advertising deal with Yahoo would wreck
| everything.
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| [...]
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| Don't call them a PR firm or a lobbying firm though, Law Media â which has a
| ton of lawyers working for them tooâis a "public affairs firm" specializing
| in producing "remarkable coalitions" for anything one might need a coalition
| for.
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/08/14/corn-farmers-against-google
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