Published on May,15 2012 - by Bloomberg
...ce. At an investor conference last year, Levinsohn said MySpace was once the “shiny object” that made sales to...llenges to Yahoo’s business were in place long before a proxy contest by New York-based hedge fund Third Point...
Published on May,14 2012 - by Reuters
...on, but some industry observers said the price paid for MySpace was less of a problem than the subsequent mana...seats to Loeb's activist hedge fund, settling a looming proxy fight, and putting Loeb in a strong position to ...
Published on May,14 2012 - by The Los Angeles Times
...ce _ then the dominant social network. (News Corp. sold Myspace for $35 million last June.) "He is the perfect... padding his resume and, as part of its settlement of a proxy fight it threatened, now has three seats on the ...
Published on May,14 2012 - by Forbes
... Murdoch during the period in which News Corp. acquired MySpace. (You call on how much blame he deserved for t...ill not only allow Yahoo! to put the distraction of the proxy contest behind us, it will allow the Company to ...
Published on May,14 2012 - by Agence France Presse
...property bought then-flourishing social networking star MySpace for $580 million and cut a lucrative search de...t with Loeb's hedge fund Third Point, which is waging a proxy battle at the Sunnyvale, California-based firm.L...
Published on May,13 2012 - by Forbes
...ney-losing $580 million acquisition of social network, MySpace. To his credit, he also inked a $1 billion adv...e money in Yahoo! stock. In exchange for abandoning his proxy fight, Loeb and his two board nominees, Michael ...
Published on May,13 2012 - by Agence France Presse
...Corporation property bought then-social networking star MySpace for $580 million and cut a lucrative search de...ts slate of candidates for the Yahoo! board, avoiding a proxy battle. No date has been announced for the annua...
Published on May,13 2012 - by Reuters
...otiator. He had helped steer News Corp's acquisition of MySpace, and had started an investment fund to buy int...ohn, will be interim CEO. It also said it had settled a proxy battle with Third Point and will nominate three ...
Published on April,28 2012 - by The Daily Telegraph
...al, or the $580m Rupert paid for social networking site MySpace in 2005. Investors would prefer to see News Co...dviser to approach any meeting with Lord Oakeshott as a proxy for Vince Cable, an intro discussion on the subs...