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Some Big Firms Got Facebook Warning

in News on May 24 at 5:15 am PT

It is one of Wall Street’s best-kept secrets: Securities firms are allowed to selectively confer with favored large investing clients about crucial information as they prepare IPOs.

BoomTown Decodes Carl Icahn's Letter to Yahoo!

in News on May 15, 2008 at 2:01 pm PT

BoomTown’s most favorite part of the Yahoo takeover circus? The dueling letters, of course! How the lovely practice of missives has fallen out of favor, as soulless emails have grown in use. Well, not in the land of hostile takeovers! So here’s our decoding of billionaire investor Carl Icahn’s thankfully brief letter to Yahoo’s Chairman Roy Bostock, informing Yahoo that he begins bombing in five minutes.
reagan

Impossible Questions and the 10 Plagues of Sunnyvale for Yahoo's Jerry Yang

in News on May 14, 2008 at 9:00 am PT

Now with billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn hovering–and there will be more opportunistic investors to come, prompted into action by some of Yahoo’s biggest shareholders, including Capital Research’s Gordon Crawford (don’t say BoomTown didn’t warn you, Jerry)–Yahoo is kind of like a town just whipsawed by a tornado and about to endure a flood. And then some hail. Also, maybe a locust swarm or two.
moses