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POPSMicrosoft & Yahoo: Is A Deal Back On? Microsoft withdrew its $33 a share bid in May, because Yahoo wouldn't come down from $37 a share. If they can get the board booted, you can bet that the price will be quite a bit lower.
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POPSBillionaire Blogging Mark Cuban has long had one. Ross Perot launched one last week. Carl Icahn plans to start blogging today It's clear that the prominence and success of these billionaires makes others curious what they have to say. Perot's first post was only a press release announcing the site, PerotCharts.com. It's received 74 responses in a few days.
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POPSMotorola Loses Second CTO In 6 Months More work for Motorola's executive recruitment committee--Moto's still searching for a CEO for its handset division. Padmasree Warrior, the previous CTO, left in December and is now at Cisco.
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POPSYahoo Stake Could Be Big Bucks For Icahn Carl Icahn might be able to quickly turn his new stake in Yahoo into a big windfall. Reports suggest the billionaire is considering pushing the Web portal to reconsider a buyout offer from Microsoft. If he's successful, his 50 million Yahoo shares could be worth as much as $33 each. He's been buying those shares in the past couple weeks when they were south of $27 each.
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POPSIcahn After Yahoo? Icahn may be reworking the landscape of corporate America, one shareholder battle at a time. He pushed BEA into Oracles' arms; he got Motorola to agree to try to sell its handset division. And now Yahoo? It could wind up with the Redmond boys after all.
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POPSBeware The Takeover Loophole Just when you thought you had enough to worry about, Sorkin in Dealbook column hightlights a new tactic that allows outside investors to buyup big stakes in companies and avoid the 5% disclosure rules. Far fetched? Ask the guys at CNet who just had this sprung on them the other day.
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POPSOm calls out Carl Icahn I don't know enough of the facts to form my own opinion. The only thing i'll say about AOL is that i just don't see how they will ever grow their audience again. It just imposible to me...unless they begin buying up hot, new properties that together can offer a better online experience. Seems to me though that Yahoo is the one doing this.