In recent weeks, the company's directors and advisers have gravitated toward plans that call for an investor or consortium to buy a stake of as much as 20 percent," the New York Times reported. As a three year board member, he knows the executives.
Rich Skrenta, CEO of Blekko, told Search Engine Watch that Yandex has joined as a strategic investor meaning that they may provide resources to the developing search engine. A Yandex spokesperson also confirmed the willingness to collaborate...
Among other skeptics, according to PCWorld, was an investor who also works as an advisor to numerous other shareholders. Bringing Carol Bartz on board as Yahoo's CEO in 2009 was meant to be part of a major turnaround for the company, but Yahoo's...
But the company has split the stock twice since then so the long term investor has not been as deeply impacted as one who invested over the past two years. On October 26, 2007 the stock was over $33 - meaning the long term investor would have had...
Now the investor group is continuing its support of Yahoo and plans to vote for the current board at the upcoming August 1 shareholders meeting. Icahn has submitted a proxy board to replace the current board and has been in talks with Microsoft for...
We remain open to any transaction that delivers full value to our stockholders – we just do not believe such a transaction should be dictated by Microsoft and a single short-term investor. The Microsoft/Icahn proposal would require the immediate...
s Board remains open to any transaction that delivers full value to our stockholders - we just do not believe such a transaction should be dictated by Microsoft and a single short-term investor. The Microsoft/Icahn proposal would require the...
Icahn Goes Soft on Yahoo-Google Deal, Investor Urges Combo BoardPosted by Nathania JohnsonCarl Icahn has gone soft in the wake of the Yahoo-Google deal, telling Reuters that the deal "might have some merit.
Earlier, investor Eric Jackson announced his support for a combo board, that would keep 5 of Yahoo's current board and bring in 4 from Icahn's board. Former Search Technologist and Yahoo Investor Mark Nelson Supports Icahn
with the SEC in connection with its 2008 annual meeting of stockholders at the SEC's website at www.sec.gov or at the Investor Relations section of Yahoo! Yahoo is urging its shareholders to use the white proxy card to vote for the current board...
with the SEC in connection with its 2008 annual meeting of stockholders at the SEC's website at www.sec.gov or at the Investor Relations section of Yahoo! The most interesting part of the press release was the note about how shareholders can assign...
Yahoo has confirmed that billionaire investor Carl Icahn has initiated a proxy fight via an open letter to Yahoo's board of directors notifying them of his intention to replace the existing board with his own slate of directors.
At least one investor is calling for shareholders to withhold their votes for the current directors. Eric Jackson, who represents 140 shareholders who collectively own 2 million shares of Yahoo stock, said that the board didn't negotiate in good...
IceRocket, the new search engine that investor Mark Cuban calls his "toy" now offers weblog search. Google Board Member Says Browser Not Going to Happen O'Reilly's put out its official wrap-up of various things discussed that were search-related at...
Thoughts from the Search Engine Strategies Conference - Google AdSense: Disqualified for Invalid Clicks - Google Apologizes - Google Tracking Clicks - Kanoodle Lands Major Investor. SEMPO Job Board http://www.sempo.org/search-engine-marketing-jobs.php
Yahoo's original investor leaves board San Jose Mercury News, March 12, 2003 http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/5373812.htm Venture capitalist Michael Moritz was an original investor in Yahoo and his company was an original...
AskJeeves reports Q2 loss Reuters, Aug.http://news.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-6763693-0.html This is FAST's second round of layoffs this year, but the first round included "idiots," board director Thomas Fussell was reported to...
CNET Investor Message Board Area http://www.cnetinvestor.com/messages-search.asp The site now regularly lands in Media Metrix's top rankings, though much of that traffic may be driven by Go2Net's other content, such as the Silicon Investor web site.
Netscape, Search Engines Team Up, CMP TechWeb http://www.techweb.com/investor/newsroom/tinews/mar/0318search.html Search Engine Message Board The authors of "Search Engine Tutorial for Web Designers" have added a web-based message area for...
Netscape, Search Engines Team Up, CMP TechWeb http://www.techweb.com/investor/newsroom/tinews/mar/0318sear ch.html Search Engine Message Board The authors of "Search Engine Tutorial for Web Designers" have added a web-based message area for...
