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Umm, Jerry… a 72% Premium was Enough for Carl

By Denis Campbell • May 17th, 2008 • Category: Business

You have vexed him. Don’t do that.
The letter Carl Icahn sent last week to Yahoo! Board of Directors announcing his plans to launch a proxy fight, should give CEO Jerry Yang reason to stock-up on poison pills. Jerry, you will earn a very good return and I’d get used to the idea that you will soon be sipping pina coladas [...]