Microsoft / Yahoo Acquisition 2008

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Yang announces he is to step down

Nov 17, 2008

Yahoo rescheduled shareholder meeting

Aug 1, 2008

Icahn vs Yang: the grudge match. This will be when the two sides will find out who has the greater power: the board, or the shareholders.

Last expected date for Yahoo shareholder meeting

Jul 31, 2008

Yahoo had previously said the meeting at which directors will be nominated by shareholders would be held before this date. Then it changed its mind...

Yahoo board agrees deal with Carl Icahn

Jul 22, 2008

Carl Icahn is offered one of three seats on the executive board as peace unexpectedly breaks out.

AGM -11: Yahoo and Icahn reach deal, says WSJ

Jul 21, 2008

The Wall Street Journal reports: Yahoo Inc. said Monday it reached agreement to settle a proxy battle with activist shareholder Carl Icahn, whereby it will expand its board by two members and appoi...

AGM -15: Yahoo calls Icahn proposal "risky" to share value

Jul 17, 2008

In a letter posted on its site, Yahoo mocked the alliance between Icahn and Microsoft as an "odd-couple collaboration" which it says "continues to make misleading statements about their plans for Y...

AGM -17: NYTimes interview with Yang

Jul 15, 2008

“Do you let the fox in the henhouse?” So asked Jerry Yang, Yahoo’s co-founder and chief executive, as we chatted for more than an hour one afternoon last week at Allen & Company’s annual conferen...

AGM -18: Microsoft says Yahoo "mischaracterises" offer

Jul 14, 2008

Microsoft has issued a release today accusing Yahoo of making inaccurate statements in its announcement over the weekend that it had received and rejected a new offer from Microsoft and investor Ca...

AGM -20: Yahoo rejects Microsoft again

Jul 12, 2008

Yahoo Inc. disclosed Saturday night that it had received and rejected a joint proposal from Microsoft Corp. and Carl Icahn for a restructuring that the Internet giant said would have included the a...

AGM -25: Microsoft and Icahn discuss fresh Yahoo takeover

Jul 7, 2008

With 25 days to go until the shareholder meeting, Microsoft confirmed today that it has met with key Yahoo investor Carl Icahn to discuss a deal to renew its takeover offer for the company and oust...

Original date for Yahoo shareholder meeting

Jul 2, 2008

The original date for the Yahoo shareholder meeting at which directors would be nominated - but challenges from Carl Icahn and aggrieved shareholders led Yahoo to postpone it. The meeting will now...

Google and Yahoo investigated over ad deal

Jul 2, 2008

US anti-trust regulators have opened an investigation into Yahoo's search advertising partnership with Google to examine if the $800m (£403m) a year deal restricts competition in the market.

Icahn sets Yahoo sale price at $49.5bn

Jun 6, 2008

In a letter to Yahoo's chairman Roy Bostock, Carl Icahn said that the company should be sold for $49.5bn - about $2bn above Microsoft's last offer (of $33 per share). The Icahn price works out to...

Icahn says he will oust Yang if successful

Jun 3, 2008 12:41 PM

Carl Icahn said he will seek to oust Jerry Yang as Yahoo's CEO if a bid to take control of the company's board is successful. His stepped-up rhetoric came a day after a shareholder lawsuit against ...