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Icahn to do Microsoft’s Dirty Work?

May 13, 2008

Carl Icahn thinks, ‘Jerry Yang is an idiot CEO’ and he may launch a proxy fight to take him out.  According to David Faber, Icahn has built a significant position in Yahoo (50 million shares) and is building a ’short slate’ of board members (targeting 3 or 4 directors).  Icahn played the same game with Oracle and BEA and I suspect he might be able to put the Microsoft deal back together once he was in control.  Of course we will know by Thursday since that is the deadline…

Written by Alexander Muse · Filed Under Blog, Venture Capital 

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