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Martha biotech gets £3.4bn bid

10.09.08
Health: Imclone, the biotech company at the heart of America's domestic doyenne Martha Stewart's fall from grace, have received a $6billion (£3.4billion) takeover offer... more

Yahoo board faces flak over Microsoft

01.08.08
Internet giant meets shareholders today with board expected to face anger over failure of Microsoft deal... more

Yahoo's tussle with activist Icahn ends in compromise

21.07.08
The epic battle for control of Yahoo ends in a truce... more

Yahoo snub to Microsoft offer

14.07.08
Internet giant Yahoo has rejected a "ludicrous" proposal from Microsoft and activist shareholder Carl Icahn that would break the firm up... more

Court move on Yahoo takeover

11.06.08
Shareholders suing the company's board demanded a trial ahead of the 1 August annual meeting... more

Yahoo seeks to shut out Icahn

23.05.08
Internet company Yahoo has postponed its annual meeting as it musters its forces to fight off investor Carl Icahn's bid to take over the board... more

Microsoft tries new Yahoo tack

22.05.08
Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer categorically rules out another bid for all of internet company Yahoo but admits he is pursuing a new tack with the company... more

Icahn's push at Yahoo gets lift

21.05.08
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn has been given a boost in his campaign to force Yahoo back into takeover talks with Microsoft... more

As Yahoo can't decide on merger partner, Google looms ever larger

21.05.08
Google is a media behemoth on a scale no mogul, not even Rupert Murdoch, can hope to match... more

Microsoft tries new Yahoo tack

19.05.08
Software giant Microsoft has proposed a new deal to internet search engine Yahoo, which earlier this month drove away its £24bn takeover offer... more

Icahn, the predator stalking Yahoo, is usually the winner in boardroom fight

16.05.08
ANALYSIS Jerry Yang, chief executive of Yahoo, will be feeling hot under the collar now that Carl Icahn has set his sights on the internet company... more

Fund manager halts move on Yahoo board

15.05.08
Hedge fund manager Eric Jackson, who wants to oust Jerry Yang as chief executive of Yahoo, has dropped plans to propose his own slate of directors for the internet firm... more

Icahn may muscle in on Yahoo board

14.05.08
Internet firm Yahoo, which earlier this month drove away a $47.5 billion (£24.4 billion) bid from Microsoft, may now face an assault by billionaire investor Carl Icahn... more

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