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AP - One of Yahoo Inc.'s largest shareholders is supporting the re-election of the Internet company's incumbent board, delivering a significant blow to an attempted coup being led by activist investor Carl Icahn.
In a memo filed with the SEC, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock made what we can only hope will be their final case to Yahoo shareholders as to why they should vote against Carl... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Legg Mason portfolio manager saved Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang's job this morning, and far be it from the always-exclamatory Yang to hide his relief. Yang recorded a companywide video address, and reading a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Legg Mason Capital Management Inc. Chairman Bill Miller is backing Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jerry Yang in a fight for control of the board, saying a proxy contest with Carl C. Icahn would be disruptive. Legg Mason Capital Management is the third-biggest of Yahoo's institutional investors, with 60.7 million, or 4.4 percent, of outstanding shares, worth about $1.36 billion at yesterday's ...
Legg Mason portfolio manager Bill Miller controls 4.4 percent of all Yahoo shares and he's formally declared his plans to vote them for CEO Jerry Yang and the current Yahoo board. In a statement,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
For more than a decade, David Filo quietly tended to Yahoo's technical infrastructure. Seldom taking center stage, Filo rarely spoke to the press, allowing co-founder Jerry Yang to become the company's public face.
Yahoo Chief Executive Jerry Yang said today a proposal by billionaire investor Carl Icahn "will destroy shareholder value. Letter to shareholders Ongoing coverage
Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock and Chief Executive Jerry Yang issue a letter to company shareholders, criticizing the "Carl Icahn-Microsoft alliance" as offering an agenda that "will destroy stockholder value."
NEW YORK - Legg Mason Capital Management Inc. chairman Bill Miller is backing Yahoo Inc. chief executive Jerry Yang in a fight for control of the board, saying a proxy contest with Carl Icahn would be disruptive.
One of Yahoo's largest shareholders is supporting the re-election of the Internet company's incumbent board, delivering a significant blow to an attempted coup being led by activist investor Carl Icahn.
Yahoo! bosses Jerry Yang and Roy Bostock blasted billionaire Carl Icahn and Microsoft in a letter to shareholders yesterday suggesting the "odd couple collaboration" can't be trusted. In the letter, Yang and Bostock accuse both Icahn and Microsoft...
12:03 pm EDT July 18, 2008 - Apparently after having read and assessed the text of Yahoo's new anti-Icahn Web site, as well as its latest filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (detailed below), Yahoo's third largest shareholder, capital management firm Legg Mason, announced this morning that it would be backing Yahoo's current management in its efforts to retain its existing ...
In a new letter to shareholders, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and Chairman Roy Bostock claim that the latest proposal from Microsoft and investor Carl Icahn "will destroy stockholder value at Yahoo."
TOKYO, July 19 (UPI) -- Yahoo Inc.'s chief executive says he's considering selling the Internet search engine's stake in its Japan-based subsidiary.
July 18 (Bloomberg) -- Legg Mason Capital Management Chairman Bill Miller plans to back Yahoo! Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jerry Yang in his fight for control of the Internet company, pitting himself against billionaire investor Carl Icahn .
In a letter sent to Yahoo Inc. shareholders Thursday, Chairman Roy Bostock and CEO Jerry Yang slammed back at dissident investor Carl Icahn and his collaboration with Microsoft Corp., calling him a "corporate agitator." (GOOG)
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