Comments on: Carl Icahn-ic: Shareholder Activist Talks About His Quest to Improve Boardrooms (Are You Listening, Yahoo?)

By: erdem ela

erdem ela — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 05:57:29 +0000

It was delightful to see Bill and Steve sharing a stage and reminiscing about their stuff, but I was surprised that Bill (gadgets) and Steve (widgets) didn’t settle the debate about the original inventor of the widget. One can never have too many widgets. Somebody codes something you never even dreamed of wanting - suddenly everybody lig tv izle bedava ligtv izle garibim deyimler şiir türleri çet chat sohbet needs a whole bunch of widgets because they don’t impinge too much on the screen/template real estate.

By: James Lee

James Lee — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:55:23 +0000

Doesn’t Carl Icahn still hold a significant stake in TWX stock too?

By: Sam Harrison

Sam Harrison — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:02:58 +0000

yahoo’s board is in yang’s pocket and always was…it’s not a true ‘independent’ board like boards are supposed to be

that’s how yahoo could create the severance pay bomb that blocked microsoft and also icahn’s moves

icahn got the shaft here, but he deserved it… he’s as ruthless as any of wall street

By: Mike Kane

Mike Kane — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:39:09 +0000

Let’s face facts, YHOO’s board is about as effective as Yang, and that is by no means a compliment. I’m totally disappointed by Carls lack of action, at least up to this point. Most of us certainly hope that he is orchestrating something. My hope would be a twofold plan: 1) Dump Yang; 2) MSFT is open to a deal, hopefully full outright acquisition, but I guess a serch deal is better then anything at this point. I find it highly unlikely that Carl would be willing to absorb such a big loss, especially after his public war that he raged. He’s ego, as well as his pocket book, couldn’t allow it. Although Pickens decided that the brain trust as YHOO was too stupid to deal with and dumped the stock at a nice loss. I think Carl has much more skin in the game then T. Boone Pickens, but stranger things happen, especially with an incompetent such as Yang at the helm. Either way, nothing good at YHOO happens while Yang is still at the helm. He has no leadership abilities, he can’t close a deal to save his life, no one ( other then Sue & Roy ) has any confidence in him. I actually think truth be told neither Sue nor Roy has any confidence in him either, but since their pay check is ties to Yang’s coattails, I doubt we’ll be seeing any criticism of Yang coming from them 2.