SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Jerry Yang spent months fending off Microsoft Corp.'s unsolicited takeover bid. Now he may only have a few weeks to persuade the software maker to revive its last offer of $47.5 billion, or risk being...

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SAN FRANCISCO—Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Jerry Yang spent months fending off Microsoft Corp.'s unsolicited takeover bid. Now he may only have a few weeks to persuade the software maker to revive its last offer of $47.5 billion, or risk being fired in...
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With the righteous rage of an arbitrager scorned, Carl Icahn is looking to take over Yahoo so that it can be taken over by Microsoft.  In a letter ostensibly to Yahoo chair Roy Bostock, Icahn says that he believes the board acted "irrationally"...
Carl Icahn rarely minces words, and his blunt talk was on full display Thursday in a letter to the chairman of Yahoo’s board, Roy Bostock. In the letter, Mr. Icahn formally announced his intention to seek the ouster of the Web giant’s board unless...
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