A major Yahoo shareholder has asked for a review of how its votes were cast in last week's re-election of the Internet company's board, raising questions about whether the opposition to the directors may have been understated. Capital Research Global Investors, which owns a 6.2% stake in Yahoo, demanded the review Monday, Capital spokesman Chuck Freadhoff said. Capital World Investors, a related fund that owns nearly 10% of Yahoo's stock, didn't make the same request.

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Icahn's company is now in bankrupcy

Aug 05, 2008 10:07     

A side note... Icahn's company is now in bankrupcy. What a troublemaker! I wonder how much Microsoft paid him to ruffle Yahoo's feathers. He's obviously not acting in Yahoo's best interest. Perhaps he needed to sell Yahoo to cover his other businesses.
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bankruptcy even

Aug 05, 2008 10:08     

spelling check was disabled... doh!
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icahn

Aug 05, 2008 10:55     

is a ruthless bastard.. he's always been in the buisness to take over companies, gut them and sell them of for lots and lots of profit for himself and the other shareholders.. he doesnt care about search. or computing. or makeing people unemployed. or anything besides profit.. i hardly think microsoft needed to pay him of and if they had he'd probobly black mail them back to the stone age..
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