Yahoo’s chairman, Roy Bostock, rejected late Thursday accusations from the billionaire investor Carl C. Icahn that the company’s board had acted irrationally in turning down a $47.5 billion takeover offer from Microsoft and repeated that Yahoo...

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"A fair-minded review of the factual record leads to one conclusion: that Yahoo's ten-member board, comprised of nine independent directors along with Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, remains the best and most qualified group to maximize value for all...
Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock fires back at Carl Icahn, telling the investor he doesn't get the Microhoo process. Yahoo shot back at Carl Icahn, telling the billionaire investor he doesn't understand the facts about Microsoft's last...
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What a fabulous defense. The Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO) board has written Carl Icahn about his plan to run his own slate of directors in a proxy war. The portal's governing body reasons that because Icahn was not in any of its meeting and did not...
“Unfortunately, your letter reflects a significant misunderstanding of the facts about the Microsoft proposal and the diligence with which our board evaluated and responded to that proposal,” Bostock wrote. “A fair-minded review of the factual...
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