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Summary box: Yahoo's truce with Icahn

Jul 21 ,Technology


(AP) -- PEACE PLAN: After two months of sniping at each other, Yahoo Inc.'s leadership and activist investor Carl Icahn negotiated a cease-fire that will give Icahn three seats on Yahoo's board, which will expand to 11 directors from the current nine.





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