2 posts and columns on Nextel Partners

Yahoo and AOL: Like Two Louts Merging to Make One Cretin

in News on September 24, 2008 at 7:40 am PT

Looks like Carl Icahn did show up to his first Yahoo board meeting, though it appears he wasn’t able to get much done. The new board, which also includes former Viacom CEO Frank Biondi and former CEO of Nextel Partners, John Chapple, reportedly met Tuesday and decided as a first course of business to talk to Time Warner about the future of its AOL division.

Memo to Yahoo: Incoming–Duck and Cover!

in News on April 24, 2008 at 3:01 am PT

And, as BoomTown wrote yesterday, so the war of attrition for Yahoo begins. Not with a bang, but a whimper. And so much whine, I am considering serving up a nice plate of cheese to all players. But while the first moves by Microsoft (MSFT), which is seeking to take over Yahoo (YHOO), seem a [...]