Motorola rejects Icahn's board bid
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Company urges shareholders not to sign proxy cards for billionaire Carl Icahn, who wants a seat on Motorola's board.
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NEW YORK/BOSTON  - 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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Shareholders at Lear Corporation vote to reject a $2.9bn buyout offer from billionaire investor Carl Icahn.
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Financier Carl Icahn ended his bid for  Reckson Associates Realty Corp. , the Wall Street Journal  reported on its Web site on Tuesday, a move that illustrates  the difficulty activist shareholders face in challenging  management.
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Leap Wireless International Inc.  said on Sunday its board of directors had unanimously rejected an unsolicited bid worth more than $5 billion from larger rival MetroPCS Communications Inc. .
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Verizon Wireless has rejected a request from Naral Pro-Choice America to make Verizonâs mobile network available for a text-message program.
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Europe's biggest bank HSBC Holdings  has rejected calls from activist investor Knight Vinke Asset Management for it to review its strategy and shake up its corporate governance, the Financial Times reported.
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Leap Wireless International Inc.   said on Sunday its board of directors had rejected an  unsolicited bid from larger rival MetroPCS Communications Inc.  .
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Australian mining group WMC Resources Ltd has formally rejected a 7.4 billion dollar (5.73 billion US) takeover bid by Swiss-based Xstrata Plc, using an independent report to back its view the offer was neither fair or reasonable.
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PeopleSoft Inc.&#39;s board of directors unanimously rejected Oracle Corp.&#39;s takeover offer Saturday, Nov. 20, only hours after PeopleSoft stockholders tendered a majority of their shares in favor of the deal.
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US billionaire investor Carl Icahn is looking to win a seat on Motorola's board, the mobile phone maker says.
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The search for seamless mobility Comment Having seen off the challenge to his leadership from billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn, Motorola CEO Ed Zander is under renewed pressure as the company warns of a dismal second quarter and a full year of losses in the core handset unit.â¦
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PeopleSoft Inc.'s board of directors rejected Oracle Corp.'s &#36;9.2 billion takeover bid Wednesday and vowed to continue its staunch resistance even if a majority of the business software maker's shareholders decide to accept the offer.
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Ventana Medical Systems said that its board had rejected an unsolicited $3 billion cash tender offer from the Swiss drug maker Roche Holding.
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The Bancroft family has rejected a proposed plan asking them instead to seek stronger guarantees of editorial independence as a condition of selling Dow Jones.
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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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Britain's Prudential Plc  has rejected an approach for loss-making Internet bank Egg, the insurer said on Sunday, after the Sunday Times newspaper reported U.S giant Citigroup Inc.  was considering a bid.