Comments on: Yahoo Board and Investors Burn, While Everyone Else Fiddles

By: The Top Ten List for New Yahoo U.S. Head Ross Levinsohn–the BoomTown Rules | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:24:22 +0000

[...] If a billionaire shareholder activist named Carl whom you used to canoodle with about taking over Yahoo calls, please refer to No. [...]

By: Another Day, Another Questionable Yahoo Story Rocks the Stock | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:53:45 +0000

[...] was also the choice of Carl Icahn, when the activist shareholder was waging a proxy fight against Yahoo, to lead it. It was a scheme [...]

By: “Total Fiction”: There Is No $20 Billion Microsoft Deal To Buy Yahoo Search | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 07:30:10 +0000

[...] Earlier this year, there was also another deal involving Icahn, before he gave up his proxy fight against Yahoo in exchange for a board seat, which did involve Levinsohn and Miller taking over Yahoo. [...]

By: james baker

james baker — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:14:00 +0000

Miller would be good, he was for AOL, look what happened after he left, it all went to crap with dumb and dumber running it.

By: eric manchester

eric manchester — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:04:31 +0000

So this is interesting. Remember when Miller went to AOL everyone had written off AOL. Through a number of changes in the companies emphasis he grew their business and hit targets for every quarter. Levinsohn understands community and programming something Yahoo has to get on top of…it could work well.