Yahoo Inc. said Thursday it will add the former chief executives of Viacom and Nextel Partners to its board of directors as part of the company's deal to ward off a proxy fight with billionaire investor Carl Icahn.

Yahoo Inc. said Thursday it will add the former chief executives of Viacom and Nextel Partners to its board of directors as part of the company's deal to ward off a proxy fight with billionaire investor Carl Icahn. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company selected...

SAN JOSE -- Having endured takeover attempts by Microsoft and then billionaire investor Carl Icahn, executives and board members at Internet giant Yahoo sought to assure rattled shareholders at the annual meeting here yesterday that the company has a plan for regaining its momentum after a multiy...

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn says he will not attend Friday board meeting and that he hopes the peace he made with Yahoo Inc. CEO Jerry Yang and Chairman Roy Bostock will turn into "a beautiful friendship."

The press should applaud activist shareholders, the billionaire investor argues, adding that a media circus wouldn't help at Yahoo's shareholders meeting Friday.

Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang accuses Microsoft Corp. of trying to destabilize the Internet portal by giving a voice to support a proxy battle by billionaire investor activist Carl Icahn.

Yahoo Inc. shares climbed for a second day in Nasdaq trading Thursday after a report that the Internet company may compromise to end a proxy challenge by billionaire investor Carl Icahn.

Yahoo Inc. shares climbed for a second day in Nasdaq trading Thursday after a report that the Internet company may compromise to end a proxy challenge by billionaire investor Carl Icahn.

OMAHA, Neb.— A Chinese investment fund manager's bid for the chance to have lunch with billionaire Warren Buffett was the largest ever in a charity auction on eBay and surprised even Buffett. "It kind of blew me away," Buffett said Tuesday. Zhao ...

NEW YORK : Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said Sunday that billionaire steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal has been elected as an independent director at the world's largest investment bank. Mittal, who is chairman and chief executive of the world's largest steel ...