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Carl Icahn continues to press Apple to use its cash hoard to buy back its shares. But Apple's board could choose to buy a company that would eat up most of its cash.
Oppenheimer has decided to upgrade Apple shares on the same day that Carl Icahn issued his open letter to CEO Tim Cook.
Carl Icahn has lived up to his promise for an interesting open letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook.
Activist investor Carl Icahn tweeted a message late Wednesday morning that he would be sending an "interesting" open letter to Apple.
eBay was given high marks by the market this week when the company finally capitulated to the outside pressure by Carl Icahn.
Now that eBay has agreed to spin off its PayPal division, we can’t help but wonder what the future holds for PayPal as an independent company.
In the drama of Icahn’s pursuit of eBay in an effort to get it to spin off its PayPal business, the eBay CEO played the part of the mouse to Icahn’s cat.
Nine months ago activist investor Carl Icahn launched a drive to get eBay to split off the PayPal payments segment of the company.
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Dollar General said Monday morning that it has proposed to acquire Family Dollar Stores in a deal worth $9.7 billion. In late July, Dollar Tree entered a definitive merger agreement to acquire Family...
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When Dollar Tree announced that it would acquire competitor Family Dollar Stores for a cool $8.5 billion, there was no word from activist investor Carl Icahn, who owns more than 9% of the stock.
Discount store operator Dollar Tree has entered a definitive merger agreement with Family Dollar Stores under which the former will acquire the latter.
eBay is set to report earnings on Wednesday after the markets close. Now that it has reached a settlement with Carl Icahn, eBay shares have backed off from their post-Icahn pop.
Family Dollar Stores reported mixed third-quarter fiscal 2014 results before markets opened Thursday morning. Shares were down fractionally in premarket trading.