Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Yahoo Gag Reel, Redux
Jerry Yang’s Yahoo debacle in Digital Daily intros, with apologies to Steven Spielberg, Mel Blanc, Queen, Neil Diamond, Barbra Streisand, Tallulah Bankhead, Marlene Dietrich and the entire cast of “The Sound of Music.”
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Yahoo and AOL: Like Two Louts Merging to Make One Cretin
Looks like Carl Icahn did show up to his first Yahoo board meeting, though it appears he wasn’t able to get much done. The new board, which also includes former Viacom CEO Frank Biondi and former CEO of Nextel Partners, John Chapple, reportedly met Tuesday and decided as a first course of business to talk to Time Warner about the future of its AOL division.
Yahoo … eventually … in my opinion … they have to do something with Microsoft eventually. They have to do it or Google is going to kill them.”
– Carl Icahn promises Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang an enjoyable board meeting this week.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Well, That Was $36 Million Well Spent …
$36 million. That’s what Yahoo spent in the first half of 2008 for outside counsel on Microsoft’s unsolicited takeover offer and the debacle that followed. “We incurred incremental costs of $36 million primarily for outside advisers related to Microsoft’s proposals to acquire all or a part of the Company, other strategic alternatives, the recently resolved proxy contest, and related litigation defense costs,” Yahoo disclosed in a recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
No Worries Carl, I’m Sure Jerry Doesn’t Really Want to Attend Either
What a horribly anticlimactic anticlimax. Billionaire backseat driver Carl Icahn has decided not to attend the Yahoo shareholders meeting Friday. This after months of agitating for the company’s sale to Microsoft and ouster of its board of directors. “I will not be attending [the annual Yahoo meeting],” Icahn wrote in a post to The Icahn Report.
Monday, July 28, 2008
Yahoo Investor: You’ve Made Me Angry, Very Angry Indeed
Just four days to go before Yahoo’s annual shareholders’ meeting, and already things are starting to get messy. Capital Research Global Investors, Yahoo’s second-largest shareholder, is considering withholding votes for Chairman Roy Bostock and CEO Jerry Yang in protest over the company’s bungling of Microsoft’s takeover bid.
Carl Icahn, Sue Decker BFF
After months of agonizing introspection, it appears Yahoo President Sue Decker has finally gotten in touch with her true feelings about Carl Icahn. In an interview with CNBC Wednesday, Decker welcomed the billionaire backseat-driver to Yahoo’s board of directors with a big wet PR kiss.
Glass Lewis Half Empty
Differences of opinion make the financial markets go round. And it would appear that we have some strong ones among the proxy services advising Yahoo shareholders on how to vote at the upcoming election of Yahoo’s board members.
Time to Put That Exclamation Point in Storage?
Yahoo has managed a détente with billionaire backseat driver Carl Icahn. So the question now is this: Can Yahoo manage one with the rest of its shareholders? We’ll find out this afternoon, when the company reports second-quarter earnings.
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An iPod mini rebuilt with a wooden case
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Star Wars meets Magnum, P.I.
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In response to numerous e-mails, I have no idea what planet the giant alien creature is from. Judging from its enormous gills, I’d have to guess it’s from a watery planet. Reminder: please let me know if you plan to be in the office on Memorial Day so I can request HVAC for your floor.
- Amazon Customer Reviews: Three Wolf Moon T-Shirt
For those of you who mock the wolf shirt beware. There is an old Navajo story about a young man who made fun of another man for wearing a wolf trio shirt. Legend has it that in his sleep, the wolves on the other man’s shirt came to life and tore his body to shreds. They never found any part of that man’s body. The Wolf is something to be respected and feared, not treated like a novelty.
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Hands down the most inexplicably bizarre game for Wii I’ve ever seen
- Respectful Yo Mama Jokes
Yo mama is so attractive she could be on the cover of Prevention.
- Introduction to Microcontroller Programming: The Flatulometer
The inspiration for this project was to determine who could generate the worst flatulence measurable in a personally unbiased manner.
