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...

Yahoo said that it would add the former chief executives of Viacom and Nextel Partners to its board as part of the company?s deal to avoid a proxy fight with the investor Carl C. Icahn.

It's too bad Tesoro Corp.'s and Yahoo Inc.'s headquarters are not next-door neighbors. If they were, Chief Executives Bruce Smith of Tesoro and Yahoo's Jerry Yang could carpool. They would have plenty to talk about.