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Electrons fly as Yahoo, Icahn exchange unpleasantries

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Investor Carl Icahn and the Yahoo board are engaging in a war of words over how the company handled Microsoft's attempts to buy it. As the proxy fight won't come to a head until Yahoo's shareholders' meeting, scheduled for August first, there's no immediate end in sight for the exchange of nastygrams. Read More...

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