Yahoo recounts shareholder votes

Posted on August 5, 2008 - 16:24 by AP via Yahoo

Yahoo is recounting the shareholder vote for its board of directors after discovering that a tabulating firm failed to register the opposition of a major investor. The revision, expected to be announced later Tuesday, won't change the outcome of Friday's election, which retained Yahoo's incumbent directors despite shareholder anger about the board's handling of a now-withdrawn $47.5 billion takeover bid from Microsoft.

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