In a move that surprised some, Institutional Shareholder Services came out in favor of Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners’ $24.4 billion buyout proposal. Read more »
Dell’s future remains up in the air, with now not one but three potential deals officially on the table. The board’s special committee deemed both the new Blackstone Group and Carl… Read more »
It looks like the Blackstone Group and Carl Icahn will be in the mix to take control of Dell — coming up with offers to rival the bid from Michael Dell… Read more »
Uh oh. Carl Icahn thinks the deal crafted by Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners to take Dell private for $24 billion woefully underestimates the company’s worth. Stay tuned… Read more »
Unconfirmed reports have it that the Carl Icahn, the infamous corporate raider, is buying up Hewlett-Packard shares. Investors think Icahn and HP’s board are meant for each other. Read more »
I still don’t see the case for technology company buying Netflix. Content services are valuable to technology companies only insofar as they’re proprietary to a particular technology platform, which is at… Read more »
Whatever pretense may have held last week that Carl Icahn’s accumulation of a 9.98 percent stake in Netflix was anything other than a hostile raid on the company and its cash… Read more »
Carl Icahn is clearly betting he can force Netflix into a sale that will produce a windfall for his stake. But if that doesn’t work he will almost certainly go after… Read more »
LightSquared’s lenders view the company’s CEO and principle financial backer Philip Falcone as the biggest threat to whatever remains of LightSquared’s chances to get its nationwide LTE network. To remove that… Read more »
Carl Icahn has been quietly buying up LightSquared’s debt a rock bottom prices, which would put the activist investor in position to take over the company in the increasingly likely event… Read more »