February 07, 2009
Filed under: Earnings reports, Cisco Systems (CSCO), Time Warner (TWX), Motorola (MOT), Estee Lauder (EL), NYSE Euronext (NYX), BP p.l.c. ADS (BP), Anadarko Petroleum (APC) Here are some highlights from this past week's earnings coverage from BloggingStocks: Anadarko Petroleum Corp. (NYSE: APC) repo...
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Trey Thoelcke
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January 29, 2009
Biotech, acquisitions, diabetes Luke Timmerman wrote: Carl Icahn has sized up one of San Diego’s biggest biotech companies, Amylin Pharmaceuticals, in the crosshairs. The famed billionaire investor said today he has bought up an 8 percent stake in the company, and that he intends to nominate a...
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Luke Timmerman
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January 23, 2009
Filed under: Management, Columns Carl Icahn has been making the round doing everything short of stripping naked on CNBC to get his message across: Corporate governance in America is a complete joke and a major contributor to the mess we're in now. Shareholders and lawmakers need to get on the ball a...
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Zac Bissonnette
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December 15, 2008
Financial, networking, Wealth Gregory T. Huang wrote: On Friday, we reported that Tiger 21, a New York-based network and support group for the very wealthy, is setting up a Seattle chapter, headed by the local entrepreneur and investor Andy Sack. (Tiger 21 had planned to announce the news today, but...
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Gregory T. Huang
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November 18, 2008
Obviously, the dream CEO for Yahoo is News Corp. President and COO Peter Chernin. And, no surprise, he is the No. 1 choice of most inside and outside Yahoo (YHOO), in the wake of the news late yesterday that its current CEO and Co-Founder Jerry Yang is stepping down. And why not? Chernin has the rig...
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Kara Swisher
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November 16, 2008
What does Carl Icahn, the billionaire activist shareholder who waged war on Yahoo and now sits on its board, really think? “…I really think current boards and managements are killing the country,” he said in an interview published Friday in The Wall Street Journal’s Opinion J...
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Kara Swisher
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July 21, 2008
Jerry Yang, Yahoo’s CEO, may be learning something about the hard-driving style of management it takes to go it alone after an attempted takeover, especially if he follows Om’s logic and thinks Yahoo is about more than search. This morning, Yahoo said it will allow corporate raider Carl ...
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July 19, 2008
Yahoo has finally taken an a full throttle at dismantling Carl Icahn off the command seat he is trying to be in by reshaping Yahoo and its management board. The chain at anti Icahn-ism began when Icahn voiced his opinion asking Jerry to stop his bullshit; which was Jerry’s stubbornness at not sell...
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July 18, 2008
Legg Mason portfolio manager saved Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang's job this morning, and far be it from the always-exclamatory Yang to hide his relief. Yang recorded a companywide video address, and reading a transcript filed with the SEC, we can't help but wonder if Yahoo's lawyers missed a few exclamation ...
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Yahoo has posted a big purple link to its anti-Carl Icahn website on the front door at Yahoo.com, with a rotating set of teasers including an Icahn quote, "It's hard to understand these technology companies." Wow, they're just like bloggers who post the letters lawyers send them! But seriously, by u...
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