Carl Icahn

Icahn says opposes partial sale of Yahoo

Filed under Deals, Carl Icahn
December 3, 2008 10:51 pm

Billionaire Carl Icahn opposes selling part of Yahoo to former AOL Chief Executive Jonathan Miller or anyone else because it is undervalued, he told CNBC on Wednesday. “I don’t think ... Read more »

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Billionaire Icahn’s 177-ft motor yacht up for sale

Filed under Playthings, Carl Icahn
October 19, 2008 7:00 pm

Wanted: A buyer for billionaire investor Carl Icahn’s 177-foot motor yacht. Brokerage firm  Northrop & Johnson listed Icahn’s yacht, Starfire, this week. read the rest published by Yahoo here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081017/us_nm/us_icahn_yacht_1

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Discussing how to fix Wall Street with Carl Icahn

Filed under Carl Icahn
September 20, 2008 2:11 pm

Icahn’s Solution Discussing how to fix Wall Street, with Carl Icahn, billionaire investor and the Fast Money traders.  financial firms collected checks and cozied up to CEOs while their companies ... Read more »

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Icahn: Danger Ahead for the US economy

Filed under Carl Icahn, Predictions
September 12, 2008 9:11 pm

“It ain’t over till it’s over,” Yogi Berra famously said, and Carl Icahn agrees. Unlike many of his Wall Street colleagues, the billionaire investor didn’t greet Uncle Sam’s bailout of ... Read more »

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Icahn joins Yahoo board, turning up heat for deal

Filed under Carl Icahn
August 6, 2008 7:27 pm

 Yahoo Inc’s  board confirmed billionaire investor Carl Icahn as a director, while board member Robert Kotick tendered his resignation as part of a previously announced deal, the company said on ... Read more »

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Yahoo Rejects Microsoft, Icahn Bid to Split Company

Filed under Deals, Carl Icahn, Steven Ballmer - Microsoft, Jerry Yang - Yahoo
July 13, 2008 6:06 pm

 Yahoo! Inc. rejected a proposal from Microsoft Corp. and billionaire investor Carl Icahn that would have broken up the Internet company, saying they were trying to “coerce” officials into selling ... Read more »

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Billionaire Activist Cleared By Regulators To Harass Yahoo

Filed under Carl Icahn, Jerry Yang - Yahoo
May 30, 2008 10:22 pm

Federal antitrust regulators have cleared activist billionaire investor Carl Icahn’s purchase of another $1.5 billion of shares of Internet company Yahoo Inc. Icahn launched a proxy fight last month to ... Read more »

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Yahoo postpones annual meeting

Filed under Deals, Carl Icahn, Steven Ballmer - Microsoft, Jerry Yang - Yahoo
May 24, 2008 12:16 pm

The internet company Yahoo has postponed its annual meeting as its board struggles to escape a shareholder uprising led by the billionaire corporate raider Carl Icahn. The potentially rowdy gathering ... Read more »

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Icahn Says Obama Would Be `Terrible’ U.S. President

Filed under Politics, Carl Icahn
May 22, 2008 9:05 pm

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn said Barack Obama would be a “terrible” U.S. president whose election would bring higher interest rates and a loss of international confidence in the dollar. “I ... Read more »

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Motorola settles proxy battle with billionaire

Filed under Carl Icahn
April 7, 2008 8:01 pm

Motorola Inc. settled its proxy battle with Carl Icahn on Monday, agreeing to back two of the billionaire investor’s nominees for its board of directors in exchange for him dropping ... Read more »

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Motorola to Split Into Two After Phone Sales Slide

Filed under Carl Icahn
March 26, 2008 6:34 pm

Motorola Inc. plans to split into two companies next year amid pressure from billionaire investor Carl Icahn to break off the money-losing mobile-phone business that it pioneered 25 years ago.One ... Read more »

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Icahn Demands Access to Motorola’s Strategy Documents

Filed under Carl Icahn
March 25, 2008 6:36 pm

Carl Icahn, the billionaire investor fighting for board seats at Motorola Inc. demanded access to documents that detail the strategy for turning around the money- losing mobile-phone business.Icahn filed a ... Read more »

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Icahn raises his stake in Motorola

Filed under Deals, Carl Icahn
March 6, 2008 4:44 pm

Carl Icahn, the billionaire Wall Street investor, has raised his stake in Motorola, the struggling US mobile phone maker, to 6.3 per cent from a previously reported 5 per cent. ... Read more »

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Carl Icahn to start blogging

Filed under Carl Icahn
February 6, 2008 2:20 pm

www.icahnreports.com Billionaire investor Carl Ichan on Tuesday said he is establishing a blog to discuss ideas on corporate governance, an area in which he has strong opinions. “This country is ... Read more »

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Icahn takes stake in Greenbrier Cos.

Filed under Carl Icahn
February 4, 2008 4:06 pm

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn has amassed a 9.5 percent stake in railcar manufacturer Greenbrier Cos., according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday. Icahn reported owning ... Read more »

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Motorola Rises After Saying It May Drop Mobile Phones

Filed under Carl Icahn
February 1, 2008 12:24 pm

Motorola Inc., which has lost mobile- phone market share to all of its major rivals, rose in German trading after saying it may bow to shareholder pressure and shed its ... Read more »

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Icahn Targets Biogen With Board Candidates, Criticism

Filed under Carl Icahn
January 29, 2008 8:52 am

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn said he plans to nominate three people to Biogen Idec Inc.’s board and criticized the company’s earlier attempt to find a buyer as “flawed.”Biogen refused to ... Read more »

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Oracle to Buy BEA for $7.85 Billion

Filed under Deals, Larry Ellison - Oracle, Carl Icahn
January 16, 2008 9:17 pm

Business software maker Oracle Corp  agreed Wednesday to buy BEA Systems Inc.  for about $7.85 billion, a compromise price that ends a months-long dispute over the value of the company ... Read more »

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Zander steps down as Motorola chief executive

Filed under Hedge funds, Carl Icahn
November 30, 2007 7:01 pm

Ed Zander, the embattled chief executive of Motorola, has stepped down from his post as the mobile phone company struggles to contend with a slump in market share. Mr Zander, ... Read more »

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Icahn hedge funds post first quarterly loss

Filed under Hedge funds, Carl Icahn
November 14, 2007 10:14 am

Billionaire Carl Icahn’s activist hedge funds posted their first quarterly decline since they opened three years ago because of volatile markets and losses on stocks including WCI Communities Inc and ... Read more »

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