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Friday, October 10, 2008

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 Jackson–the dissident Yahoo investor who agitated for change at the company and the creator of the Yahoo! Plan B investor community–has dumped his Yahoo shares.

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Wednesday, May 7, 2008

I Hear Microsoft’s Got an Alternative Slate It’s Not Using

July 3 will be “Independence Day” for Yahoo shareholders. So says Eric Jackson, president of Ironfire Capital, who is doing his damnedest to recruit an alternate slate of directors to present at Yahoo’s annual meeting on that day.

“It’s hard to believe the board could let this happen,” Jackson told the Associated Press.

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John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper.

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