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Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Carl Icahn’s Yahoo Board Choices: Meyer and Biondi?

Unless there is an 11th-hour change of heart from Time Warner, former AOL head Jon Miller will still not be Carl Icahn’s choice for the two other seats he will select–which requires Yahoo’s consent–to the board of the Internet company, set to be announced by Friday.

Instead, several sources with knowledge of the situation think Icahn is likely to choose Edward Meyer (pictured here) and Frank Biondi, both of whom were on his alternative board slate when the activist investor was waging his now-defunct proxy fight against Yahoo.

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Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997 and also wrote the BoomTown column about the sector. With Walt Mossberg, she co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech and media conference.

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