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.

Jerry Yang and his fellow Yahoo s have spent plenty of time and energy in recent months dealing with Microsoft ’s unsolicited takeover offer and the proxy fight it inspired.

Yahoo's third largest investor offered up some advice Tuesday to the company's dissident shareholder Carl Icahn on what it may take to swing investor votes his way in a proxy fight, according to a Reuters report.

Carl Icahn is mounting a proxy fight against Yahoo's board, one built on the gamble that he can bring Microsoft back to the negotiating table.

Billionaire Carl Icahn is expected to tone down his attack on Yahoo! dramatically by slashing the number of directors he plans to nominate to join the troubled internet company's board. The activist investor, who owns $1.5bn of Yahoo! stock, launched a proxy fight to replace the internet company's 10-member board last month as it rejected a $46bn takeover bid from software giant Microsoft. ...

In case you've been held incommunicado for the last few days, Yahoo's twice-delayed stockholders meeting, which it pushed off until the end of July after legendary corporate raider Carl Icahn threatened a proxy fight for control of the board, is now scheduled for Friday, August 1. If things get that far, it promises to be highly entertaining. Fortified by court disclosures Monday of Yahoo ...

Federal antitrust regulators have cleared activist billionaire investor Carl Icahn's purchase of another $1.5 billion of shares of Internet company Yahoo Inc. Icahn launched a proxy fight last month to remove Yahoo's board of directors after the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company rejected Microsoft Corp.'s last takeover bid of $47.5 billion bid. He has called Yahoo's actions "irrational" and ...