Icahn seeks seat on Motorola to boost share buyback
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Billionaire investor Carl Icahn  said on Tuesday he will seek a seat on Motorola Inc.'s   board and has taken a stake in the mobile phone maker, aiming  to convince it to do a big share buyback.
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Financier Carl Icahn on Friday offered to buy the shares of generic drugmaker Mylan Laboratories  that he does not already own for &#36;4.9 billion, or &#36;20 a share, according to a government filing.
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Texas Instruments Inc., the  largest maker of chips for cellular phones, on Thursday said it  plans to buy back $1 billion in stock and boost its quarterly  dividend by more than 17 percent, becoming the latest  technology company to return extra cash to investors.
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Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn has taken a stake in Kraft Foods Inc. , according to the online version of The Wall Street Journal.
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The board of IBM Corp. has authorized up to $4 billion in additional funding for its stock buyback program. Armonk, NY-based IBM (NYSE: IBM) says it will repurchase shares on the open market or in private
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Motorola Inc.  is planning to  sell $1.0 billion debt in a three-part offering as early as  Monday, said a market source familiar with the sale.
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Motorola Inc. , which has  warned that it will post a second quarterly loss in a row,  announced a business reorganization on Tuesday that one analyst  said could help the mobile phone maker cut costs.
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Motorola Inc. said on Friday it plans  to invest $90 million in a new research facility in Beijing as  the U.S. mobile phone maker fights to wrest back top position  in the domestic handset market.
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Billionaire investor Carl Icahn said on   Thursday he is seeking approval from shareholders of ImClone   Systems Inc. IMCL.O to remove six directors from its board,   including the chairman and the interim chief executive, and   bring in one of his own nominees.
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U.S. stocks edged higher on Tuesday as a 5 percent jump in oil prices lifted shares of major energy companies and Motorola Inc.  gained after investor Carl Icahn said he will seek a seat on the board.
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Motorola Inc.  on Tuesday said  it will buy Symbol Technologies Inc. , a maker of bar  code and inventory scanning technology, for about $3.9 billion  to boost sales of wireless handheld devices to corporate  customers.
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Motorola Inc.'s venture capital arm  aims to boost its investments to more than $100 million this  year, betting on technologies including automotive electronics,  high-speed wireless communications, and advanced optical  systems, its chief told Reuters.
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Motorola said Thursday that it was exploring the possibility of selling or spinning off its cellular phone business as a way to make the company more profitable.
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U.S. stocks rose on Tuesday as a 5.5 percent jump in oil prices to nearly $57 a barrel spurred a rally in the energy sector, while shares of Motorola Inc. gained after investor Carl Icahn said he will seek a seat on the board.
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Wall Street financier Carl Icahn on Wednesday reaffirmed his offer to acquire the remaining shares of Mylan Laboratories Inc.  he did not already own for &#36;4.9 billion.
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Billionaire investor Carl C. Icahn told Motorola Inc. he hopes to be elected to one of 13 seats on the cell phone maker's board of directors, company officials said Tuesday. Motorola shares rose more than 6 percent in late morning trading on the disclosure.
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Motorola needs a successor to its  successful RAZR phone to hold on to market share, and BenQ  Mobile is set to make gains when new products kick in, market  research group Gartner said in a survey on Wednesday.