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Yahoo Shareholders Reject Plan to Tie Executive Compensation to Company's...
Well, what do you know: Yahoo’s annual shareholder meeting didn’t conclude with CEO Terry Semel’s head piked on the exclamation point of the Yahoo sign outside company headquarters. Nor did it end with...
View ArticleMotorola Gets Yahooed
Eric Jackson, the effectively noisy shareholder advocate who prodded Terry Semel to leave Yahoo as CEO at its annual board meeting just days before he did, is now targeting Motorola and its CEO Ed...
View ArticleFirst, Let's Toss Out All the Yahoo Board Members
While Microsoft (MSFT) still has not moved against the board of Yahoo (YHOO), which is one of the many options open to it, some of its more vocal advocates have. Eric Jackson–who made a very correct...
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I Hear Microsoft's Got an Alternative Slate It's Not Using
July 3 will be “Independence Day” for Yahoo (YHOO) shareholders (“Independence day. Heh. “Enjoy The Shareholder Meeting. It May Be Your Last …“). So says Eric Jackson, president of Ironfire Capital,...
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Icahn't Has Yahoo…Or Can I?
Carl Icahn has finally broken his silence. The outspoken billionaire investor, who’s been oddly quiet since Yahoo (YHOO) announced its advertising partnership with Google (GOOG), finally commented on...
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Liveblogging From Yahoo Annual Meeting: Shareholder Q&A!
OK, now we’re cooking with gas at Yahoo’s annual meeting in San Jose, as various shareholders–mostly small ones–come to the microphones to give Yahoo a piece of their mind. The room has filled up...
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Kara Visits the Yahoo Annual Meeting!
BoomTown was blogging so manically from the Yahoo annual meeting, which took place in San Jose on Friday, I plum forgot to load up the video I did there. No video was allowed inside the meeting or...
View ArticleAfter Vote-Gate, Heads Must Roll on Yahoo's Board
To anyone who says that it’s inconsequential that Yahoo understated the level of shareholder dissatisfaction by more than half thanks to a “tabulation error” by its proxy counter, Broadridge Financial...
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Taking the "Yahoo" Out of "Yahoo Shareholder Activist"
No surprise here. Yahoo shareholder dissatisfaction is following a trend line inverse to the company’s plummeting share price. In fact, the price has dipped so low that Ironfire Capital founder Eric...
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Weekend Update, 10/10/08
The best thing that can be said of the week ending Oct. 10, 2008, is this: It’s over. Marked by panic selling and wet-your-pants fear, it was one of the worst weeks in the financial world’s history–a...
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Microsoft: Mr. Acquisitive?
With $25 billion in its coffers, Microsoft isn’t exactly hurting for cash. So why is the company planning a bond offering that could raise billions in additional capital? Microsoft (MSFT) won’t say,...
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New Looks for Aging Models: Fashion Shots from Yahoo's Product Runway
“The only worse thing than being talked about is not being talked about.” That quip fired off recently by Ironfire Capital founder and former dissident Yahoo investor Eric Jackson pretty much sums up...
View ArticleCapLinked Wants To Make Deal Opportunities Go Social
Picture this: LinkedIn-meets-Salesforce, for potential start-up financing opportunities. That’s the vision for CapLinked Inc., a new start-up that wants to be the go-to place for setting up and closing...
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As CEO Bartz Fiddles With Turnaround, Yahoo's Stock Value Burns
Yahoo — which turned in yet another disappointing second quarter on Tuesday, but with all new excuses for the continuing decline in revenue — is now getting toasted by Wall Street. That would be the...
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BlackBerry Maker Layoffs Met With Chorus of Raspberries
Research In Motion described its decision to sack 10 percent of its workforce Monday as “a prudent and necessary step for the long term success of the company.” But few, it seems, are buying it....
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Facebook IPO Halo Boosts Social Media Stocks
Facebook’s imminent IPO might mint a mess of millionaires in Silicon Valley by Friday, but in the meantime, it’s driving wealth in a few newly public Internet companies, as well. With the social...
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Will the "Marissa Mayer Premium" -- or Is It Those Hedge Fund Dudes Piling in...
They like her, they really like her. Wall Street, that is, in regards to new Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, assigning the former Google exec a clear premium. And whether it is deserved or not yet from a...
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Third Point Is Latest Fund to Shed Its Apple Shares
Add billionaire investor Dan Loeb to the list of hedge fund managers who have bailed on Apple recently. Loeb’s Third Point Capital, which held 710,000 shares of Apple in the third quarter, unloaded...
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Does Fairfax Have Resources -- And Motivation -- To Close BlackBerry Deal?
So BlackBerry has found itself a buyer in majority shareholder Fairfax Financial Holdings. The question now is, can Fairfax close the deal, and does it even want to? If the answer to those questions...
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How Low Will Prem Watsa's BlackBerry Offer Go?
If Prem Watsa and Fairfax Financial do move ahead with their deal to take BlackBerry private, how much will they end up paying for the increasingly infirm smartphone pioneer? Significantly less than...
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