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 <title>Hi Chris,
It&#039;ll be</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;!--paging_filter--&gt;Hi Chris,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It&#039;ll be interesting to see what happens to yahoo.  I&#039;ve heard alot about it in e-IBD.&lt;br /&gt;
How&#039;s the new job going?  Seems like your really up on the current high-tech news.&lt;br /&gt;
I&#039;ll be watching this story.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mike&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 13:07:28 -0700</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>Michael Wong</dc:creator>
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&lt;p&gt;Oil man T. Boone Pickens has joined Icahn in the fight to force Yahoo to accept the Microsoft takeover bid, according to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/20/BUM410PS1I.DTL&quot;&gt;SF Chronicle&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/sites/thestandard.com/files/u98/tb_pickens.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;T. Boone Pickens&quot; style=&quot;padding-right: 10px&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;123&quot; width=&quot;160&quot; /&gt;&amp;quot;Billionaire investor activist Carl Icahn has gained the support of new backers in his boardroom coup plot against Yahoo Inc., including the legendary corporate takeover artist T. Boone Pickens. &lt;span id=&quot;bodytext&quot; class=&quot;georgia md&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The alliance bolsters Icahn&#039;s effort to replace Yahoo&#039;s directors with his own slate at the company&#039;s annual shareholder meeting on July 3. But it remains unclear whether he has enough votes to succeed.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Also joining the fight is Third Point, a hedge fund who recently purchased 5 million shares according to Reuters. Together with Icahn and Pickens, that makes 74 million shares of Yahoo&#039;s 1.38 Billion outstanding, or roughly 5%.  &lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 15:54:40 -0700</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>Chris Tompkins</dc:creator>
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